EngadgetNowArtisanal sex toy businesses might not survive Etsy's new seller policiesEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldMany adult products are now banned, leaving small businesses with few viable alternatives. Simply Elegant Glass has been selling hand-crafted sex toys on Etsy for nearly a decade. In that time, the shop has made over 7,000 sales and racked up more than 1,500 mostly five-star reviews. The Etsy shop — …
Engadget2 hours agoApple Intelligence reportedly may not arrive until October with iOS 18.1Engadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldIt won’t be ready for the initial iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 releases, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple Intelligence isn’t likely to be ready in time for the public releases of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 in September, but you might not have to wait too long for it after that. According to Bloomberg’s …
Engadget6 hours agoElon Musk shared a doctored Harris campaign video on X without labeling it as fakeEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldThe video uses a clone of the VP’s voice to make it seem as though she’s saying disparaging things about herself and Joe Biden. As spotted by The New York Times, Elon Musk shared an altered version of Kamala Harris’ campaign video on Friday night that uses a deepfake voiceover to say things like, “I …
Engadget1 day agoApple has reached a contract agreement with unionized US retail employees for the first timeEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldWorkers in Towson, Maryland will vote on the tentative agreement next month. Apple and the unionized employees at its Towson, Maryland retail store have reached a tentative agreement that could secure them better pay, job protections, scheduling improvements to support a work-life balance and a more …
Engadget1 day agoDOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religionEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldThe Justice Department asked the court to reject TikTok’s bid to escape the law that will force its sale or ban it. The Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to reject TikTok’s bid to have the law that could ban it overturned, citing national security concerns that include its …
Engadget1 day agoWebsites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocolEngadget - Mariella MooniFixit and Freelancer said Anthropic's bot aggressively crawled their websites. Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its "do not crawl" robots.txt protocol to scrape its websites' data. Meanwhile, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said Anthropic …
