January 3, 2025news Apple Intelligence, with features like Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 18.2, requires 7GB of storage, compared to 4GB in iOS 18.1 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) Apple Intelligence launched with 4GB of storage requirements, but now that number has almost doubled already—and adds up with each device. Read […]
January 3, 2025news Meta says the viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 as part of “an early experiment” with AI characters, and it is deleting them (Jason Koebler/404 Media) The Meta AI profiles everyone is mad about are old, were a colossal failure, and many are already dead. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Apple Intelligence, with features like Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 18.2, requires 7GB of storage, compared to 4GB in iOS 18.1 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) Apple Intelligence launched with 4GB of storage requirements, but now that number has almost doubled already—and adds up with each device. Read […]
January 3, 2025news Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Apple Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more (Victoria Song/The Verge) Strava subscribers will get Fitness Plus for three months. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann’s alleged 4Chan posts and Dittmann’s X Spaces appearances suggest he might be a fake online persona used by Musk himself (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Either way, it’s uncomfortably weird. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters) By Alexander Marrow / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters) By Alexander Marrow / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
January 2, 2025news Short seller Hindenburg shorts Carvana claiming the company’s turnaround is a “mirage” that’s being propped up by unstable loans and accounting manipulation (Michael Wayland/CNBC) The report centers on Carvana’s practice of loan sales as well as the business relationship between CEO Ernie Garcia III and his […]
January 2, 2025news The T3 Financial Crime Unit says it has frozen $100M of USDT used by illicit actors since the unit was formed in September 2024 by Tron, TRM Labs, and Tether (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk) The unit is a joint venture between Tron, TRM Labs and Tether. Read More »
January 2, 2025news Thomson Reuters acquires Michigan-based tax automation company SafeSend in an all-cash transaction valued at $600M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) Thomson Reuters has acquired tax automation company SafeSend in an all-cash transaction valued at $600 million. Read More »
