Daily Deals (11-18-2024)

As Black Friday draws near, prices on a wide range of products continues to fall. That Instant Pot Pro I paid $130 for a few weeks ago? It’s down to $100 right now. The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max that has a list price of $60? It’s often on…

As Black Friday draws near, prices on a wide range of products continues to fall. That Instant Pot Pro I paid $130 for a few weeks ago? It’s down to $100 right now. The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max that has a list price of $60? It’s often on sale at a discount. But right now […]

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Apple’s headphone adapter for older iPhones sells out, possibly never to return

The end of Lightning is nigh. It’s a bummer for folks with older phones, though.

When Apple infamously ditched the headphone jack with the launch of the iPhone 7, it at least provided customers with a Lightning-to-3.5 mm adapter either right in the box or as a $9 standalone purchase in its online store. Now it looks like that adapter is being retired.

As MacRumors first noted, the adapter is showing as sold out in most regions, along with a few other Lightning accessories, like the even-more-archaic-seeming Lightning-to-VGA adapter. That includes the United States, where it is not possible to order the headphone adapter from Apple's store.

Inventory has run out, and it seems unlikely Apple will make more to refill it.

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Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful.

I have been using the Apple Intelligence notification summary feature for a few months now, since pretty early in Apple’s beta testing process for the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 updates.

If you don’t know what that is—and the vast majority of iPhones won’t get Apple Intelligence, which only works on the iPhone 16 series and iPhone 15 Pro—these notification summaries attempt to read a stack of missed notifications from any given app and give you the gist of what they’re saying.

Summaries are denoted with a small icon, and when tapped, the summary notification expands into the stack of notifications you missed in the first place. They also work on iPadOS and macOS, where they're available on anything with an M1 chip or newer.

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This tiny Banana Pi board is like a RISC-V powered Raspberry Pi Zero

The Banana Pi BPI-CanMV-K230D-Zero is a single-board computer with two USB-C ports, a 40-pin GPIO header and support for 2.4 GHz WiFi. Measuring just 65 x 30mm (2.56″ x 1.18″), the tiny computer looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi Zero. But the…

The Banana Pi BPI-CanMV-K230D-Zero is a single-board computer with two USB-C ports, a 40-pin GPIO header and support for 2.4 GHz WiFi. Measuring just 65 x 30mm (2.56″ x 1.18″), the tiny computer looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi Zero. But the Banana Pi model stands out in a few ways. Instead of an ARM-based […]

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Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school

Parents test if school leaders can be prosecuted over failure to report AI nudes.

An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images.

The outcry erupted after a single student created sexually explicit AI images of nearly 50 female classmates at Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster Online reported.

Head of School Matt Micciche seemingly first learned of the problem in November 2023, when a student anonymously reported the explicit deepfakes through a school portal run by the state attorney’s general office called "Safe2Say Something." But Micciche allegedly did nothing, allowing more students to be targeted for months until police were tipped off in mid-2024.

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Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs

Carr says he wants to punish broadcast media and dismantle “censorship cartel.”

President-elect Donald Trump announced last night that he will make Brendan Carr the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, who wrote a chapter about the FCC for the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality rules and other regulations imposed on Internet service providers.

Although Carr wants to deregulate telecom companies that the FCC has historically regulated, he wants the FCC to start regulating Big Tech and social media firms. He has also echoed Trump's longtime complaints about the news media and proposed punishments for broadcast networks.

Trump's statement on Carr said that "because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman."

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