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After years of scrutiny over its handling of teen safety on its platform, Meta is introducing a new type of account that will soon be required for all teens under 16 on Instagram. The new teen accounts add more parental supervision tools and automatically opt teens into stricter privacy settings that can only be adjusted with parental approval. The changes are unlikely to satisfy Metas toughest critics, who have argued that the company puts its own profits ahead of teens safety and wellbeing. But the changes will be significant for the apps legions of younger users who will face new restrictions on how they use the app. With teen accounts, kids younger than 16 will be automatically opted into Instagrams strictest privacy settings. Many of these settings, like automatically private accounts, the inability to message strangers and the limiting of sensitive content have already been in place for teenagers on Instagram. But younger teens will now be unable to change these settings without approval from a parent. And, once a parent has set up Instagrams in-app supervision tools, theyll be able to monitor which accounts their kids are exchanging messages with (parents wont see the contents of those DMs, however) as well as the types of topics their children are seeing posts about in their feeds. Parents will also have the ability to limit the amount of time their kids spend in the app by setting up sleep mode which will mute notifications or make the app inaccessible entirely or reminders to take breaks. Meta The changes, according to Meta, are meant to give parents greater oversight of their teens experiences. While the company has had some parental supervision features since 2022, the features were optional and required teens to opt-in to the controls. Teen accounts, on the other hand, will be mandatory for all teens younger than 16 and the more restrictive settings, like the ability to make an account public, arent able to be adjusted without parent approval. The company says it also has a plan to find teens who have already lied about their age when setting up their Instagram account. Beginning next year, the company will use AI to detect signs an account may belong to a teen, like the age of other linked accounts and the ages on the accounts they frequently interact with, to find younger users trying to avoid its new restrictions. The app will then prompt users to verify their age. In the meantime, Meta will start designating new accounts created by 13 to 15-year-olds as teen accounts beginning today. The company will start switching over existing teens into the accounts over the next two months in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, with a wider rollout in the European Union planned for later this year. Teen accounts will be available in other countries and on Metas other apps beginning in 2025.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-teen-accounts-with-parental-controls-will-be-mandatory-for-kids-under-16-120013852.html?src=rss
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Apple expanded its AirPod family with two new models last week. Weve now tested out the AirPods 4 and a second version with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and we have some thoughts. Improved sound quality and some advanced features are the key additions, but youre more likely to notice the redesigned shape for keeping the buds more firmly (and comfortably) lodged in ears. Engadget With the ANC version, Apple offers useful noise cancellation while keeping your ears open no silicone tips. There are also a lot of Pro features, but the issue is the more technically capable AirPods Pro are often on sale, undercutting those $179 buds. I wouldnt have guessed it, but the basic $129 AirPods 4 may be the better deal. Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed Flappy Birds creator wants you to know hes got nothing to do with the new version Apples iOS 18 is available now iOS 18 preview: Waiting on Apple Intelligence Meta bans Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram The ban on outlets like RT will take effect over the next few days. Meta has banned RT and other Russian state media outlets on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets, the company told Engadget. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity. This comes days after the BidenHarris administration publicly accused RT of spreading propaganda and disinformation online. Continue reading. Who asked for a Wordle VR app? And who hurt you? Meta The New York Times has brought its all-conquering daily word game to a new platform in the shape of Meta Quest headsets. Wordle VR works in much the same way as the game on your phone or computer, with six attempts to guess a five-letter word. Except youre wearing a VR headset. Continue reading. Amazon Prime Big Deal Days announced The fall Prime Day sale returns on October 8. Amazons big sale event / buyers remorse generator will return this year on October 8 and 9, giving us all the more reason to call it October Prime Day as we have done in years past. Prime Day in July remains Amazons biggest sale event for Prime members, but ever since its debut in 2022, October Prime Day provides subscribers with thousands of exclusive deals during the two-day window. In case you missed out on that Echo. Again. Continue reading. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-our-verdict-on-apples-new-airpods-4-111506361.html?src=rss
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Intel is turning its foundry business, which manufactures chips for other companies, into an independent subsidiary. The company has revealed its plan in a note to employees from its CEO Pat Gelsinger, published over a month after Intel disclosed that it's cutting 15 percent of its workforce. Intel is laying off more than 15,000 people as part of its $10 billion cost-reduction plan to regain financial stability following a second-quarter net loss of $1.6 billion. Gelsinger explained in his new memo that turning the foundry into a subsidiary "will unlock important benefits," particularly the ability to evaluate and take external funding directly. Gelsinger said that there will be no changes to the foundry's leadership, but the subsidiary will establish its own operating board with independent directors to govern it. According to CNBC, Intel is even considering making the foundry a separate publicly traded company. Intel is in the midst of modernizing its existing fabs and building new ones for its foundry business, which is costing the company billions of dollars, in an effort to catch up to its chipmaking rivals like TSMC and Samsung. The company has reportedly spent around $25 billion a year on its foundry business over the past two years, but that has yet to translate into profit. In April, the company revealed in a presentation to investors that the business posted $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, even larger than the $5.2 billion in losses that it incurred the previous year. It had a revenue of $18.9 billion, down 31 percent from its 2022 revenue of $27.49 billion. Gelsinger warned investors at the time that Intel expects its foundry business' operating loss for 2024 to be even bigger and that it doesn't expect to break even until 2027. The foundry's finances aren't the division's only problem: Its next-gen manufacturing process referred to as "18A" reportedly failed crucial tests to prove that it's ready to be used for mass production. In addition to announcing that the foundry business will become a subsidiary, Gelsinger also disclosed in the memo that Intel will be selling part of its stake in Altera, another chipmaker that it purchased for $16.7 billion in 2015. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/intel-is-separating-its-ailing-foundry-business-from-the-main-company-110043046.html?src=rss
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