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Motorola Just Dropped the Moto G Max With a Massive 7,000 mAh Battery
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (236+ words) Snapdragon 6s Gen 4-powered handset with 7,000 mAh silicon-carbon cell launches in India on August 20, but skips NFC The Moto G Max is a deliberate trade-off machine: strong where battery-anxious buyers need it, candid about everything else. Sixty-three hours is Motorola’s number…...
Apple Wants 15% of Purchases You Make Outside Its App Store
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (476+ words) After Supreme Court refusal to pause proceedings, Apple cuts its external-purchase commission nearly in half to avoid contempt consequences The number dropped. The logic didn’t. The proposed tiers reveal a careful segmentation strategy — but even the lowest rate still keeps…...
70 Years of TV History at Risk: PBS Broadcaster Sues Data Center Over Lost 50TB Archive
3+ hour, 42+ min ago (284+ words) Nine PBS filed suit in Denver District Court July 28 after its cloud vendor went silent, leaving 50TB of St. Louis broadcasting history locked in an Iron Mountain data center This isn’t a data-loss story — it’s a data-hostage story, and the culprit…...
A Messaging App Sends Texts by Pigeon – If the Bird Survives
23+ hour, 34+ min ago (444+ words) Free iOS app delivers texts via virtual pigeon flying 110 mph across a live map — with a 0.2% chance the bird simply vanishes Your pigeon is somewhere over Ohio. It’s been forty minutes. Then, nothing. The bird is gone. So is your message....
Google's Classic Search Button Is Disappearing – AI Is Taking Its Place
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (405+ words) Three AI shortcut buttons replace the 25-year-old search interface in tests spanning multiple browsers worldwide For roughly 25 years, the Google homepage has been the most consistent thing on the internet. Two buttons. One search bar. A logo. That’s it. A…...
ChatGPT Just Removed Its Text Limits for Free Users – Here's What Actually Changed
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (204+ words) OpenAI lifts rolling text quotas for free accounts and ships a smarter lightweight default model as it nears 1 billion weekly users The fine print here matters as much as the headline, so read it before celebrating. Think of this like…...
TikTok Turned Off Teen Safety Protections to Measure Engagement. A Boy Died.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (443+ words) TikTok’s own 14-page internal report found Chase Nasca’s account was stripped of suicide safeguards as part of a deliberate A/B test on 15 million users TikTok had the fix. By early 2022, the company had developed “filter bubble prevention” — algorithmic changes…...
The AI Moderator Coming for Reddit Communities
1+ week, 1+ day ago (235+ words) Rules Hub, tested across 700-plus communities, uses LLMs to catch sarcasm and euphemisms Automod’s keyword filters miss Automod catches the word “idiot.” It does not catch “oh, what a brilliant observation, truly a scholar among us.” That gap between keyword…...
Google Deletes Your WhatsApp Backups Without Telling You
1+ week, 2+ day ago (596+ words) Most Android users think their WhatsApp chats are safe because they set up a Google Drive backup once, years ago. Google’s own policy says otherwise. Its support documentation confirms that WhatsApp backups are deleted after 5 months of inactivity. No warning…...
One Tap on a Passkey and Your IP Is Exposed: The Hidden Flaw Inside Apple's Private Relay.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (219+ words) A WebKit flaw in passkey handling lets any website capture real IP addresses across all iOS browsers, with no patch yet A passkey request sidesteps Safari’s proxy path entirely, exposing the one thing Private Relay was built to hide. A…...