Of Interest

• Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction

  

  Slashdot

• The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

  

  MIT Technology Review

• Apple Maps is getting ads, and there's no way to turn them off

  

  TechSpot

• Xbox's new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

  

  Ars Technica

• The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They're Still Vulnerable

  

  Wired

• Deep Cogito raises $43M Series A for AI self-improvement research

  

  Yahoo News(Technology)

• Model teaches AI to read more like humans

  

  Futurity

• Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data

  

  GeekWire

• Google's latest speech-to-text Gemini model offers a platter of new features

  

  Neowin

• "The best Star Wars game for years" just arrived " and it's quite the surprise

  

  T3

• Perplexity Portable Computer Brings Offline AI With Zero Monthly Fees

  

  Ubergizmo

• Some Early Star Wars Zero Company Reviews Call It A Potential GOTY Contender

  

  Kotaku

• Microsoft partners with Razer, 8BitDo, and Backbone on Xbox 25th anniversary collection

  

  TechSpot

• GTA 6 Cyberleek update: Everything leaked so far, what might be next

  

  Mashable