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A new AI-powered video generator from Meta produces high-definition footage complete with sound, the company announced today. The announcement comes several months after competitor OpenAI unveiled Sora, its text-to-video model — though public access to Movie Gen isn’t happening yet. Movie Gen uses text inputs to automatically generate new videos, as well as edit existing … Read more

Kenya’s competition authority has fined Baltic lender Eleving‘s Kenyan subsidiary for misleading its customers, casting a spotlight on the continuing unethical operations of a section of digital lenders in the country despite a new law. The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) imposed a fine of $84,120 on Eleving subsidiary Mogo Kenya for violating competition law … Read more

Epic Games is suing Google again along with Samsung, claiming that unfair practices make it hard to get exposure to its third-party software offerings. In this claim, Epic takes issue with Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature, which stops the installation of software that is not from official trusted sources. Specifically, Epic claims that it’s anti-competitive that … Read more

Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has acknowledged the recent bootloop issue faced by users of older Galaxy devices. The cause of the bootloop is an update to the Samsung SmartThings app. Affected customers should contact Samsung Support to help fix the issue. Alternatively, experienced users can try a data wipe. Users of certain … Read more

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has seen a reduction of about 8.4% to its workforce after 159 employees accepted severance packages, CEO Matt Mullenweg said. The move follows disputes over the company’s direction and its clash with web host WP Engine. Most departures hit the WordPress division, with some from other business units. Employees received … Read more

In a subsequent statement at the Italian Tech Week conference in Turin, as reported by Reuters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied any connection between the executive departures and the company’s restructuring plans. “That’s totally not true,” Altman said, addressing speculation about a link between the two events. He clarified that the board has been considering … Read more

In addition to several bug fixes, the iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 updates released on Thursday include a few security patches for the iPhone and iPad. In a support document, Apple says iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 address security vulnerabilities involving the built-in Messages and Passwords apps. Here are the full details from Apple: Media … Read more

The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the universe. But despite their incredible longevity and success, they are inevitably running low on power, so their operations have to be tweaked … Read more

Quick Links Find Apple Watch Model from the Case Find Apple Watch Model from the Watch If you’re trying to fix an issue with your Apple Watch, or you want to sell it, you’ll need to know which version of the wearable you own. Here’s how to identify the device from the Watch app or … Read more

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu, where he helped build the Chinese … Read more