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Three new ways to personalize your iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18
<p>iOS 18 offers the most control over the look and feel of your iPhone's user interface than any other version of Apple's mobile operating system to date.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service
<p>LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI models.” […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
This Week in AI: Why OpenAI’s o1 changes the AI regulation game
<p>Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s been just a few days since OpenAI revealed its latest flagship generative model, o1, to the world. Marketed as a “reasoning” model, o1 essentially takes longer to “think” about questions before answering them, breaking down […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
US government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director
<p>The FBI, NSA and other U.S. government agencies detailed a Chinese-government operation that used 260,000 of internet-connected devices to launch cyberattacks.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Luminate’s hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care
<p>The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
TechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about iOS 18
<p>It’s time to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 18. We know — updating your phone is annoying, and sometimes those software downloads can take a weirdly long time. But if you like customization and fun perks like iMessage text effects, it’s worth the upgrade. And if you’re often texting friends and family who use Androids, […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other
<p>At its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called “Communities,” is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator’s channel. With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won’t need to use other platforms like Discord or […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Amazon adds PayPal as a payment option to Buy with Prime
<p>Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Amazon announced Wednesday that Prime customers can use PayPal to check out on websites that’ve integrated the Buy with Prime API. The company also […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Edera is building a better Kubernetes and AI security solution from the ground up
<p>Edera, a startup looking to simplify and improve how Kubernetes containers and AI workloads are secured by offering a new hypervisor, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Kubernetes is now 10 years old, but Edera founders Ariadne Conill (distinguished engineer), Emily Long […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
YouTube unveils ‘Hype,’ a new way for fans to help smaller creators grow their reach
<p>YouTube creators no longer have to rely solely on the recommendation algorithm, search results, or collabs to help them grow their audience. At the company’s Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, YouTube announced a new feature that will allow a creator’s existing viewers to help “hype” a video with a click of a button, allowing […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive