YouTube makes another controversial move against ad-blockers Meanwhile, YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. The video platform announced it’s expanding its fight against ad blockers to include third party apps. YouTube says that users who try to access ... 04/17/2024 - 2:59 pm | View Link
YouTube is coming for ad-blocking apps – you might need to finally pay up for Premium YouTube pointed this out saying that some users prefer an ad-free experience so it offers a paid-for ad-free option with YouTube Premium, which is currently £12.99 / $13.99 / AU$16.99. 04/16/2024 - 10:10 pm | View Link
YouTube is taking action against mobile apps that allow users to watch videos without ads Users of these apps may face buffering issues, eventually video playback may be blocked. 04/16/2024 - 12:25 pm | View Link
YouTube Cracks Down On Third-party Ad-blocking Apps; Urges Users To Go Premium YouTube, the popular video-sharing platform owned by Google, has recently announced that it will be stepping up its enforcement of ... 04/16/2024 - 10:23 am | View Link
YouTube Cracks Down on Ad-Blocking Apps YouTube is making it tougher to use third-party, ad-blocking apps that go against its terms of service, the company said Monday. Trying to watch a video using such apps could lead to buffering issues ... 04/16/2024 - 10:18 am | View Link
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for April 30's Wordle solution revealed.
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Enlarge / Farm cats drinking from a trough of milk from cows that were just milked. (credit: Getty | )
On March 16, cows on a Texas dairy farm began showing symptoms of a mysterious illness now known to be H5N1 bird flu. Their symptoms were nondescript, but their milk production dramatically dropped and turned thick and creamy yellow.
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Roku CEO Anthony Wood disclosed plans to introduce video ads to the Roku OS home screen. The news highlights Roku’s growing focus on advertising and an alarming trend in the streaming industry that sees ads increasingly forced on viewers.
As spotted by The Streamable, during Roku's Q1 2024 earnings call last week, Wood, also the company's founder and chairman, boasted about the Roku OS home screen showing users ads "before they select an app," avoiding the possibility that they don't see any ads during their TV-viewing session.
Enlarge / Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) are the Dead Boy Detectives, ghosts who solve paranormal mysteries. (credit: Netflix )
For those eagerly anticipating the second season of Netflix's stellar adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels, Dead Boy Detectives—the streaming plaform's new supernatural horror detective series—is a welcome return to that weird magical world.
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On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board that consists of 22 members pulled from the tech industry, government, academia, and civil rights organizations. But given the nebulous nature of the term "AI," which can apply to a broad spectrum of computer technology, it's unclear if this group will even be able to agree on what exactly they are safeguarding us from.
President Biden directed DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to establish the board, which will meet for the first time in early May and subsequently on a quarterly basis.
The fundamental assumption posed by the board's existence, and reflected in Biden's AI executive order from October, is that AI is an inherently risky technology and that American citizens and businesses need to be protected from its misuse.