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海外TECH	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	Apple leaning on dominant Chinese companies to comply with App Store payment rules	https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/02/apple-leaning-on-dominant-chinese-companies-to-comply-with-app-store-payment-rules?utm_medium=rss	There has been an unenforced loophole in China s App Store that has allowed developers to funnel in app payments to external payment processors and Apple is reportedly leaning on Tencent and ByteDance to make it stop iPhone Pro is expected to see a super cycle driven by China salesApple had reportedly blocked ByteDance from updating Douyin ーessentially TikTok in China unless it prevents developers from having users pay outside the App Store It hasn t quite gone that far with Tencent but it has issued a warning that it must do the same for external links in mini games or it will block WeChat updates For the latter a Friday report from Bloomberg claims that Apple wants Tencent to shut down in game chat between mini game creators and players which has been key to steering players off the App Store to pay And reportedly Apple is talking to the developers of those games directly as well Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums	2024-08-02 11:46:17
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海外TECH	Engadget	Engadget Podcast: Samsung Galaxy Ring review, EFF on KOSA, and another AI “Friend”	https://www.engadget.com/engadget-podcast-samsung-galaxy-ring-review-eff-on-kosa-and-another-ai-friend-113013886.html?src=rss	Samsung s Galaxy Ring is here and honestly it s just a bit basic This week Cherlynn and Devindra dive into what does and doesn t work with Samsung s latest wearable Also we discuss Friend s new AI gadget which listens to your conversations and sends text messages to help you feel less lonely To get a better sense of the device Devindra also talks to Friend s CEO Avi Schiffmann about why he s leaning away from the productivity side of AI helpers and more towards the vibes of friendly AI And yes we also ask why he spent million of Friend s million funding just to buy the Friend com domain In other news we discuss the potential impact of KOSA the Kids Online Safety Act with India McKinney the EFF s Director of Federal Affairs While lawmakers are uniformly positioning KOSA as a way to protect kids on the internet it could also lead to draconian censorship and destroy free speech on the web as we know it Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice If you ve got suggestions or topics you d like covered on the show be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments And be sure to check out our other podcast Engadget News TopicsCherlynn reviews the Samsung Galaxy Ring Great sleep tracking but needs more features Interview with Avi Schiffmann founder of AI wearable company Friend KOSA passes the senate we chat with EFF s India McKinney about why it matters What we ve learned since the massive Crowdstrike outage Elon Musk shared an AI altered video of Kamala Harris without labeling breaking the rules of his own site Apple Intelligence arrives in the iOS developer beta Google makes peace with third party cookies after years of mixed signals Around Engadget Mat Smith s Galaxy Flip review Working on Pop culture picks Subscribe iTunesSpotifyPocket CastsStitcherGoogle PodcastsLivestreamCredits nbsp Hosts Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn LowGuests Friend CEO Avi Schiffman EFF Director of Federal Affairs India McKinneyProducer Ben Ellman Music Dale North and Terrence O BrienTranscriptDevindra What s up Internet And welcome back to the Engadget Podcast I m Senior Editor DevindraCherlynn Hardwar I m Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low Devindra Today we are back from a bit of a break a bit of a summer break How are you doing Cherlynn Cherlynn Jet lagged Devindra Oh man Yeah you were in Singapore right You came all the way back over How long were you in Singapore Cherlynn It was under a week but including travel I was gone for about a week and basically missed two days of recording this podcast So that s why we missed this many episodes How dare youDevindra to see your family to have good food at the hawker stands How dare you That s also a really fast trip for such a long flight Cherlynn You re such a trooper But this week folks we are coming back into the swing of things Cherlynnn is going to talk about her review of the Samsung Galaxy Ring We re going to talk about KOSA passing the Senate This is something we ve talked about before the Kids Online Safety Act And we re going to talk a bit about the the AI gadget Friend which debuted this week with a really I don t know cheesy trailer and had a lot of us laughing but we also have some interviews with folks too We have Avi Schiffmann the CEO friend who talks with me about what he s trying to accomplish with this device and why he moved away from making it like a productivity focused thing like the Humane AI pin or the Rabbit R And joining us to talk about KOSA is India McKinney director of federal affairs at the EFF They re going to talk about why This bill has a huge amount of privacy concerns People are worried about censorship online because of this bill and the things that can it can stop online as always folks if you re enjoying the show please be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or your podcast of choice leave us a review on iTunes Drop us an email at podcast engadget Com We love your feedback We love questions and anything you send us can be mentioned on the show So if you want to be internet famous for an episode or something just a shout us out We also typically live stream the show on Thursday mornings around AM Eastern on our YouTube channel So join us for that You can talk with the chat crew You can see us do some Q and a live on camera today Sheldon s going to show off the the galaxy ring boy It s round I don t know what else you can show off with that thing Cherlynn but we ll talk a bit about that thing Let s get right into it actually Cherlynn you reviewed the Galaxy Ring This was a device I was not super amped about but Samsung I feel like Samsung was really leaning on it because Apple hasn t done it yet There aren t too many other smart rings out there except for the Oura How do you feel about this thing Cherlynn Okay so to your point on its own the Ring doesn t do a lot And it s No it s really basic Like it s a device That s got a bunch of sensors on it It will track your Heart rate variability skin temperature steps and all that stuff Devindra It s That that didn t click with me until now Yeah it s actually You could get an Apple Watch for that price Yeah Cherlynn it is expensive so you have to be okay with the fact that you re paying a lot of money for something that on its own once again doesn t do a lot And the thing is you with the ring you leave it there to passively call it collect data on you And then you spend most of your time If you re like me and interested in those bits of information you spend most of your time on the Samsung health app on the phone And I I like it I think it s very comfortable to wear partly because it s so paired down It doesn t have a lot It s not as heavy as the aura ring In fact it s actually half the weight Devindra The ring is a thick boy If you look at it it s chunky muchCherlynn thicker And in fact with the Samsung galaxy ring I felt like so mine is a size seven which is the third smallest size Samsung offers And that s pretty similar to my actual ring size for those who are wondering but I would find even throughout the day as your body changes it never gets too tight In fact like my it might actually be too loose at times which is important because that affects my blood oxygen readings at night Which I ll get into later but first and foremost the galaxy ring is a passive health Data tracking device And that s if it s right for you and if you have the you want to spend on that go for it I think there are people out there that are looking for low key low profile gadget like this Martha on the chat asked a very good question And it s something that is actually crucial in my review which is Was or is there any reason to buy or get the smart ring if you have a smart watch I for me I found in my testing that the ideal combination is a ring and a watch If I had a crap ton of money I would wear the ring to track passive things like sleeping low level activities like neat stuff And then the watch I would use for tracking workouts or when I m like out and about and I m more likely to want to get notifications on a wrist worn screen That really like I found that when I was watching wearing both the watch ultra and the galaxy ring to be like the best combo And I was out and about Because I don t want to wear that goddamn watch ultra at home It s so huge I hate it Devindra Yeah that device may not have been meant for you Just like the Apple watch ultra right That is just a big honking thing I will sayCherlynn the watch ultra never felt as big as the Galaxy one because don t forget what Samsung s doing with the Galaxy watch ultra is to stuff a circular screen into a squarish body So it just adds bulk It doesn t need to be as bulky as It is as or it just isn t the Apple Watch Ultra isn t as bulky butDevindra yeah it s fits the shape of your wrist more by being a little more squarish that s a good question though by the way from Mark Dell is that I think the thing facing wearables I remember when a lot of the wearable stuff when Fitbit first came out when Jawbone had their early stuff people were like Oh this is so cool I could track my activity I could do all sorts of stuff And the constant question was why do I need this in addition to my smartphone And now the question is why do you need the smart ring Likely in addition to an Apple to a smart watch And then the I feel like the I don t know algebra for that Like the equation for that math is too annoying and too difficult for most consumers It just seems like these things don t fully justify themselves yet Cherlynn I for one I think that one thing I said in my review is that this thing doesn t do much and that s pretty that s okay by me And I will point out that what it doesn t do is frustrating But to that point where if you do have that you ve decided I I like this setup right Wearing a ring and a watch The Galaxy the Samsung Health app is actually not bad at parsing and putting together all of your data on the one page You don t have to keep jumping back and forth between two windows or apps To just get all your data it just all adds up right So one of the things that Samsung introduced alongside the galaxy ring and the watch ultra is it s galaxy AI enabled health features like the energy score which by the way Garmin and Fitbit has been doing forever and ever but the energyDevindra score it sCherlynn based on how much sleep you got the night before and how much activity you did the day before and it tells you how ready you are to tackle the next day so every morning you get a new energy score after Samsung s calculated your sleep and your activity from the day before and it s like today you can take it easy or You should take it easy or then like you had a lot of rest and you did basically nothing yesterday you little lazy pig You do more today It doesn t say those words but like your energy score being high means you can go on and go on a big hike or whatever Devindra I love this idea by the way like I wish we had the actual tech to make this biologically like fully accurate right That would be like an implant or something So you would have a little Mega Man meter on your wrist So Oh I have full hearts today I have a full life bar Let s go Let s take on the world We re all gaming charactersCherlynn now Yeah But the thing is The main issue with this and we re coming back again to the problem here which is the Galaxy Watch Ultra you mother pizza It s like the Galaxy Watch Ultra is not only a chunky boy it s like a chunkster on the scale of that we ve established in previous episodes of the Engadget podcast the watch itself I have confirmed with Samsung last week does not have wear detection It does not know whether it s on your wrist or not This thing the Apple Watch does just does okay The Apple Watch knows all the watches It seemsDevindra like a very basic feature for any smartwatch Yes itCherlynn is a basic feature And here s where the bigger problem with that is right Not only is it just chilling when it s not on your wrist therefore just draining its own battery It s also randomly detecting workouts when you re not wearing it So if you put it like I did on my purse and I took a cab ride or something it was like Oh you ve been biking Devindra We re tumbling Cherlynn No I haven t I haven t bro No And the other thing is It doesn t have word detection so that one of the key features of the Galaxy Watch Ultra is how when you press down that orange quick button for five seconds the emergency siren will go off Yeah Do you know the number of times in my testing where the siren just going off in my backpack somewhere and I m like embarrassed in the Singapore airport I have a video of this My mom was like what is that sound sending me off to by the way like to go home to the to us And we were like what is that sound And it s in my bag Of course at percent battery screaming with the emergency SOS So that was frustrating but to back to the point with the energy score because that info from the Galaxy Watch Ultra was so inaccurate and messing up my entire activity history because of those phantom workouts that my energy score was like Oh you worked out too much yesterday You took a lot of bike rides Just don t work out as much today I was like huh That s weird It s not a problem if you like take the time to go in and read and figure out what happened But if you re just looking at your energy score and that s all you look at you ll be like getting very inaccurate information So that s just That s just one of like my bad experiences during testing It s not a galaxy ring issue It s a galaxy watch CauseDevindra if you had another galaxy watch not even the ultra like you would still have the same data like management issue between both of them Cherlynn And Mark that was like good to know that I can stick my watch on my cat to try to boost my score That s not I don t want to sure Boost your activity score but not your energy score or your readiness score But do name Charlie in the chat ask a good question which is something I want to bring up to how good is the sleep tracking So I like The sleep tracking it was good It was like mostly accurate right I think as far as I can tell you how accurate my sleep stages are right It ll tell you how many hours you spent in REM how much time you spent in deep blah blah blah Very standard stuff by now in the wearables and fitness sleep tracking market I used to complain that companies like Fitbit Google Even Apple didn t do enough of contextualizing the insight you gain from how much time you spend in each sleep stage And now I think we re better but like Samsung s kind of my first experience with this improved data So not only does it tell me like you spent percent of your sleep cycles in deep it also will say this is a good amount for restoring this restoring that it compares well to other people in this age group Ideal number ideal amount of time is this So like within one page I can get a better sense of how well I slept how much recovery I got overnight which I like I think that s more important than whether exactly to the minute was it accurate about tracking how much time I was asleep The only thing I couldDevindra comfortable like sleep device you ve had Cause it s always been your like complaint with sleep trackers right Cherlynn Yeah So this thing maybe the fact that it s slightly loose helps right But that gets in the way of like I said before blood oxygen tracking is pretty inaccurate because it s so loose They say in the app that you have to make sure you have a snug fit for accurate blood ox readings And I noticed when so my index finger is a little meatier than my middle finger So when I wear it on my middle finger to sleep my blood ox levels The next day will be like percent is like as if I was dying of asphyxia Where s theDevindra alarm somewhere to Oh my God Oh my God Yeah Cherlynn it did not And it also did not really like flag anything huge in front of me the next day on the app Something for Samson to work on there but also stopped looking at that variable right Because I m like I know that it s because it s a little loose So that is a difficulty For now And I think I don t want companies like Samsung or Fitbit to be like Oh we re going to make these or we re going to make these tighter So they get a more accurate blood ox reading I d rather it be like slightly loose And then I m like okay with not getting such an accurate reading Devindra I think that makes sense So overall are you sold on the idea of a smart ring at this point or do you still think it needs more time to cook Cherlynn Yeah I like it I like the idea of a passive activity tracker when I m at home because I spend so much of my time at home nowadays And I don t like wearing a smartwatch at home but that s me Like it s such a specific use case I think Samsung will find a market of people Who are like me but I don t know that it s for everyone I think it s just going to be a kind of a niche but like the foldables it s not going to ever be mainstream but there are people who are fervent about it that will buy it Devindra It s a the foldable thing feels like Oh that s a premium cool feature that I think people will aspire to Whereas I don t know what about the ring stuff feels aspirational It just feels Hey this is a cool solution for me Cause I hate wearing stuff on my wrist ultimately yeah go aheadCherlynn to your point about the haptics too So here are two things that like I think are shortcomings right One you don t have haptics You can t there s no speaker or haptics There s very little space on this thing It s very light So they don t want to squeeze a lot of components onto it And I agree with that choice I will just say that means that if you ve misplaced your ring like I did many times on the plane I was like hour flight Every time I wash my hands I would take it off and put it in my pocket IDevindra read in your view you keep taking it off Even though you re taking it off Here s the thing Cherlynn Then like you have to be like yeah if you like where is it You can t ping it Like you can ping your watch or your phone on find my right Samsung offers find my but you can t ping it All you can do It s look at it s the last known location with its GPS and then flash the lights red and green So that s great If like you re in a very dark place and then flashing it helps you see it from pretty much anywhere But if you re in daytime and it s not within eyesight of eyeshot of you good luck Not that s one place where it s lacking The other thing that was missing for me and I found out After Samsung finally un ghosted me was to like they didn t answer this question for a very long time which is that tendsDevindra to do that I ve had a bad experience too Yeah NeverCherlynn had that experience until recently Anyway The galaxy ring has these like double pinch gestures there are supposed to be recognized and can help you dismiss alarms or launched the camera app that was supposed to be the feature that set Samsung is like apart from Aura Ah didn t work for me and I find out after Some research that it s because this is only available on the Galaxy Z flip or the Z Fold right now Which are the two newest phones that Samsung launched So I ve been using it with an S and it s not working Like this is one of the newest phones that Samsung has why and nothing it does nothingDevindra That doesn t make any sense What is the technical reason for that Cherlynn Did they say They actually have never answered this question Unghosted me to answer my question about where detection on the galaxy watch ultra but they never answered the S versus Z flip six issue or the double pinch feature being missing question I found out because They gave an answer to The Verge that I saw somewhere yeah Devindra I think you were very generous scoring this thing at an Sherilyn like for us is because ICherlynn like it You very muchI like it Devindra But every time I hear about these issues with Samsung or just like the general lack of focus with this thing I m like I don t this isn t even for crazy people with too much money because it doesn t really do much sure the Galaxy Watch Ultra or the Apple Watch Ultra is a ton of money but you get a big ass screen You get a lot of stuff Because of spending that money Yeah I would sayCherlynn like my score for the galaxy ring I was thinking between maybe like in the range of to which if you think about it it s about the same If you think of it on a five point scale like a five star scale it s like between I think of it likeDevindra grades like a is a C not even a C plus in an is a B so I think of Cherlynn So I think like there are people I would recommend this to and that s why I was like it s I would recommend it I would buy it it works well Devindra More than an Oura ring by the way because Oura has been around for what five years And has done a lot more Cherlynn I think part of the issue for me was that I realized that some of the problems I was having is because of that very specific use case of me using the ring with a watch ultra and the watch ultra being problematic So I was like all right some of the problems here nothing to do with the ring I tried to be very focused when I was thinking about the score But anyway I do want to point out that like the battery life which why in our chat was asking me about It Samsung rates it for seven days of use and the size of the ring changes that estimate So if you have a bigger ring it adds one or two days I have size seven like I said it s like one of the smaller sizes And it definitely like it if you want to get to seven days you d have to get all the way down to zero percent LikeDevindra it sCherlynn how do you charge it By the way does it go into a little case Yeah So it comes in this pretty little transparent charging case You re going to loseDevindra that sucker immediately And this is a dead Cherlynn okay So this case by the way it looks like it s about the size of the galaxy watch ultras case And yeah it s not I didn t never I never lost it Cause I just put it at home and you can always just place it place the ring on it to charge And it s pretty it s supposed to be fat I like it gets you like what minutes We ll get you about percent of the charge And I found that putting it in the case for five minutes got me about I don t know how that tracks really but I yeah I never felt like I was too scared about running out of juice It was good A week is good for me Devindra Charging is a tough problem with wearables Fitbit has this problem too where you have to use a very specific kind of charger and if you lose it or if it breaks and you re on vacation you re just hosed right I think the one thing about the Apple watch being so ubiquitous is at least Hey You walk into a crowd of people and you re like I need to charge my Apple watch You have a cable and this has happened to me multiple times I m sure you too Sure Like recently at WWDC somebody will have an Apple watch cable or somebody will have that type of cable So like that Cherlynn I don t accessibility also seems weird Yeah I guess I find that less like common for me Like the circles I run in the vendor are clearly different Yeah Your circles everyone has an Apple watch It s just one ofDevindra those things Yeah Cherlynn You could say the same for the Aura Ring right Not everyone has a charger Definitely And I would say also the Aura Ring s charger is like more of a dock with a little like stand whereas this is a case and you d be more likely to maybe misplace the dock because it s smaller Devindra Here s one question I have and I m going to ask it we re adults here Okay And we talk about the role of the sex industry and the porn industry when it comes to tech And I m thinking you got a ring We re talking about haptics here We re talking about something I do wonder there is tech out there We don t have to be explicit but there s tech out there that has enabled haptics in ring like devices Yes but those areCherlynn hopefully bigger than finger rings Devindra There are all sorts of devices But I m just wondering there are on the Apple Watch you can tap it right And have a remote tap to somebody As we re like hey friend Hey how s it going There s like a tap Your brain has gone intoCherlynn a very specific space to be aware Devindra Oh I m sorry We re talking about devices that we wear that are shaped like circles I m just thinking about where the innovation is going or where it s happening And it s certainly not in the smartwatch justCherlynn say I don t generally need vibration on my fingers Devindra But what if you could I m just thinking how can this thing be useful right Like haptics we re talking about haptics I do the Apple Watch s little tap because it s almost like somebody coming next to me and saying Hey what s up And that is easy You re talking about digital touch or that feature right I m just thinking of ways to make this thing useful Like how do you make smart rings useful What more could you add to them I think some sort of haptics some sort of feedback would be interesting And that technology does exist just not in the general category Cherlynn I agree with you in the sense that I would I ve actually been thinking about what tech trend have I been most excited by over the last five or six years And it is the miniaturization of a lot of components like health sensors or like probably a haptic motor one day that would be small enough to fit inside a ring of a certain size I don t know what size you re thinking but this is very challenging I will say like a ring for my fingers would be very small Someone else s fingers maybe would be bigger and therefore have more room to accommodate A vibration engine This is why wrist wornDevindra wearables are more useful I think ultimately even if you re annoyed by the screen or by the size of them like they are getting smaller They can just by the sheer size of them they could do more This is all part of my anti smart ring position is just and yet these things are too expensive You reCherlynn very for a certain type of smart ring Sure I m forDevindra tech that s useful and add something to our lives Come on we re all grownups here I m just putting that out there Anything else you want to add about the galaxy ring ICherlynn think there s potential I think that like with the galaxy ring and maybe with the galaxy watch when it s improved Samsung has like to build more right where the aura ring Outperforms the galaxy ring right now is that or has been around for so much longer and knows exactly how to make sense of everything that is like it s collecting and gathering the way Fitbit had an edge over everyone else Since the early days Samsung has a lot of room to grow and that s both good and bad thing right It s right now at a disadvantage but in future it s very easy to implement these things through software updates Aura also has implemented some things like okay By the way the ring is supposed to do cycle tracking too which in the brief time I had it just wasn t able to see if it was accurate or not But or I can do that too Or I can do a lot of other things like stress tracking Oh predict when you re maybe you re feeling sick because of your body temperature that sort of thing And Samsung could potentially do that I just think I don t think hardware That is a big problem right now for the Galaxy Ring I think it s like the expanse of software room for Samsung to grow right now That s more interesting Devindra That totally makes sense Would you do you think this is something like Apple would even be interested in doing Because I m looking at this I was going to say Look at the ORM I don t think Apple would do this I think Apple this is a category where Apple is no thanks But let s wait until the tech catch something we can do Yeah Cherlynn Here s my prediction I was going to post this on threads My prediction is that we see Google come up with the pixel ring And then or we see Apple by Aura or higher X Aura executives And then we see Apple ring That s what I think Devindra But why my ultimate question is the why of it And I don t know whyCherlynn of it is I think that every company in big tech right now Amazon included maybe we ll see an echo ring for it We did actually we had we saw an echo ring Okay Anyway Devindra Yeah Cherlynn Anyway I spazzed for a moment just very angry My my reason for guessing this is because I ve seen all these companies invest in health tech and health AI and they want to make something of it And I think that this space is very interesting for everyone I think everyone s paying more attention to their own health and wants to track it while the devices right now are fairly limited And while we do have like fairly mature things that do a pretty good job like the smartwatches I still think there is room to grow I think there s a lot of interest and a lot of money pouring into this space space soDevindra I could see that I m just like we ve been through this whole like wearable field so much and I keep going back to man I really miss the jawbone up I really miss the era of when we had like really thin little bands that had sensors and had really cool things so I could more see Apple the little like rubber stretchy bands that you do to like you know break yourself out of bad habits or something some of those little braces I could almost see Apple doing something like that no screen It goes around your wrist is easy to wear is has decent battery life but can give you maybe some feedback can track sensitive data Like aCherlynn basic tracker Devindra A super basic Apple tracker Cherlynn A ring fits in so nicely with Apple s portfolio They could make a YSL LV version it s very them to go after a premium audience and ring seems more likely than a bracelet to hit that space for them Bracelets are easyDevindra to wear My daughter has recently started loving Claire s And I walk into that store and my daughter is is now very much like Sophie s very much becoming I feel like Braceless Braceless girly girl stuff like rainbows unicorns all this stuff They ve been veryCherlynn co opted by the Swifty crowd maybe By the SwiftyDevindra She s not there yet I hope not I know she s gone I m just saying Cherlynn But Devindra Anyway Thinking about like things that are easy to wear and relatively inexpensive too And also parents are like the thing parents are thinking about is I want to put a tracker on my kid I want to do something where like I put in a air tag or something in their book bag or in their shoes which is the thing that s happening If Apple had made Apple wristband that tracks a lot of your health data tracks your sleep is also a fine My device Is also can help you A Cherlynn wristband You re joking It has to be at least for Apple Devindra Sure sure Half the price of the Apple Watch Let s say at least a hundred dollars less but even then a hundred to two hundred dollars Something that is flexible easy to wear you don t even really feel it when it s on your wrist But does all this stuff I think would be a useful thing and we have the tech already to do that So that s my pitch I guess we ll see what else happens I just missed the job one up Where are all those designers like they own the market for a while they owned Bluetooth speakers and then the company collapsed because they over invested in health tech and We just weren t there years ago So we re in an interesting MicrosoftCherlynn one remember Devindra or the Microsoft one Let us know what you think folks Podcast in gadget com Okay So speaking of wearables what if Shirlene you didn t have to wear anything at all to get some helpful I don t know notifications or something from your wearable That sounds amazing Don t have toCherlynn wear anything at all Don tDevindra have to wear anything at all No So this week we saw the company friend show off its aI listening device It s basically in the promo video we see it s a pendant You can tap it you can gossip to it you can tell it your inner thoughts And when it feels like it will send a text message or something like a message in text to your phone of its own like feedback about what s happening Some examples are like Oh you re getting ready for a meeting or something and then it may know that you re prepping this because it s also always listening It s an always listening device that you can wear as a pendant or clip onto your shirt And it will send it s Hey don t worry so much Don t worry about this interview You ll be good It s this weird sort of friendly thing It was created by Avi Schiffmann who is the CEO of the company friend He s also somebody who s in the news for creating that COVID data tracker early on in and also the Ukraine Ukraine refugee map to get assistance for that Both of those projects by the way seen a bit of criticism If you go to Reddit and search his name like Redditors are pissed because he used some data from their open maps that Reddit was creating crowdsource to put it on his site And he got a lot of publicity for that even though he did not create all that data Similarly the Ukrainian website which is not active anymore but that website to help people I believe public policy folks were like this is a good intention but also this could easily be compromised by people who want to like traffic refugees or something So like it did not Have all the thoughts in it This kid is years old now so he s grown up but he s very young And this project at least from what he describes it on the website it s a solution for loneliness It s like when you re traveling or you re in an airport or in a hotel room alone like you just feel like isolated from everybody you have a thing you can tap and talk to and it ll respond to you It is not a productivity device like the humane AI pin or even the rabbit R It s not like trying to actively do stuff I think we ve reached the era of like vibes based gadgets Trillian Like it is just you wear it and if it feels like it s going to send you like hey girl you got this Don t you re good Keep going How do you feel about this What sCherlynn with you and vibes Devindra You re like vibes vibrations Okay Devindra Vibes and vibrations are very different things Cherlynn vibes are vibes Devindra Listen we should probably we used to have people who were covering sex tech more Our own Dan Cooper is very popular Every time he writes up about Pornhub we re grownups We could talk about this stuff I ve coveredCherlynn vibrators Yeah Foreign gadgets especially To Michael Coley s point it sounds like you still have to wear this pendant so it s not something you need to wearDevindra it like a necklace wear it like a necklace or have it like Clipped to your clothes or something It has to be like on you so we can hear you Cherlynn And also when you say always listening is there is it always listening for a hot word or always listening Devindra It s just like a little device It s always listening It s running its own like little I think it s one of the cloud cloud models for AI So one of the like small scale I don t know What do you call that And soCherlynn the privacy issues here are huge Devindra Privacy issues are huge Yeah It s always listening but the work it s doing is local So it s local and sends you a little text It s not uploading anything to the cloud at least according to the company So it s not backing up That also means if your little friend dies if you crush it if it goes in the wash your friend is gone for good because there s no backup of this data So that is the basic concept of this thing What just let me know Cherlynnn like you were interested in the rabbit because it looked really cute You tested and reviewed the Humane AI pin Does this seem like an AI gadget you would beCherlynn I like that it s a whole different approach right But I think it s going to run into the whole thing the problem that the Amazon Halo band initially have where it s always listening And it s not it s this it s a different approach from Amazon s Halo stuff in the sense that it s not telling you Hey your tone sucks Cheer up It s more You sound stressed but Amazon tried to do that too So I m saying that this is not brand new in terms of the like approach or the idea I do think it s a little bitDevindra That wasn t using AI like the same like level of AI models It was using their own homegrown stuff I m sure Cherlynn Like AI we ve debated the definition Anyway Yeah so it s yeah it s a different model of LEMs language models but I just think it s A little sad Devindra It is a little sad Yes I asked him this directly So the idea of this was to like stop loneliness right What if I had a thing that could keep me company Do you think a device that you talk to in lieu of human contact or friends that actually care about you do you think that does help to solve loneliness or does that make you lonelier Cherlynn I don t know Like I couldn t tell youDevindra Yeah Cherlynn I just think the rationale is sad right I think the motivation is well intentioned but sad right Like it s it tells me that there are people out there that are lonely that think that something like that will be helpful It always reminds me of all those people on Reddit that are like talking to bots and talking to bots is not what I see as like a healthy productive way to connect right So I d rather But I see the point of something that will motivate you I just think it s empty motivation right Like it s it s like those people who have girlfriends that are manga characters that are programmed to say boyfriend you re so handsome today But is it real Is that a real does that solve your loneliness issue or are you better served with something that could maybe help you engage with the world a bit more in a more productive way I don t know I asked AviDevindra this question directly too is this just a cheerleader Like your super optimistic friend that says yes and you re great for everything And he says that it s not just trying to be that cheerleader In the promo video it shows the friend like shit talking you after you re doing bad in the game I don t know It sends a message to somebody So that s I don t think that s necessarily like very like critical I would love to see if Oh you were really shitty to that person or like your attitude right now is not so great Maybe you should take a break Cherlynn The definition of friend is not someone that s only rah cheerleading you to your point It s they need to give you real advice too So it s or give you reality checks sometimes And if the algorithm s not actually programmed to do that then It might not Devindra And is a being that is entirely built to serve you and has no thoughts or motivations of its own As it s responding to you it s just you it s just you talking back to you It s not like actually you re not actually like working with another like conscious being or something So I dunno I think that s the thing One thing I ll also mention here there s a story at media that found out so friend But the friend com domain how much do you think that domain costs What do you think that domain is worth Cherlynn It was like girl it s gotta be a lot of money because that s a good URL Devindra That s a good URL That s aCherlynn really good URL Devindra So friend spent million to buy the friend com domain And let me tell you It was actually useful as I started researching this company Cause I was like how do I find this company again Oh friend com That s why they spent million to buy it This company has only raised million so far So make that how does that math work out I don t know That s like startup math That s I asked Avi this too Do you have the actual money to build this thing Like he has one he has been using prototypes for months it seems but They re going to need more money to scale and to actually produce hardware This is where we are right now Yeah Cherlynn I m getting Humane AI PIN vibes I m sorry Devindra Yeah but at least so Humane AI PIN before anything happened they had raised hundreds of millions of dollars right Based on the these people are coming from Apple there s all this Cherlynn They re not years old Yeah Devindra in the grand scheme of I think a VCE is just hey you want two million dollars to do what You re just going to buy the friend domain He s talking about this device He also wants to build like a social network of people using friends at friends com I don t know Cherlynn Slightly different if he s doing a social network is different Like I just I don t know It s it feels like I don t know Devindra So lots of thoughts are in the air We have a lot of thoughts and I like as soon as we saw this I wanted to reach out to Avi just to hear his side of the the this story I got to sit down with him We talked for maybe minutes It s a short chat because we both had to run to appointments but I asked him all the pressing questions we had So here s Avi Schiffmann CEO of Friend Avi thank you so much for joining us on the Engadget podcast Avi Yeah thank you so much Devindra I think the first question I saw when you announced Friend which has a really cool promo video is the question I ask for all AI hardware is why pursue hardware Why be a separate gadget rather than an app or something like that using the devices we already have Avi Yeah I think Rabbit and Humane were on the right track with making it easier to talk to an AI I just don t think those queries need to be about like how many grams of protein there are in some almonds I think it s more oh I m stressed about this interview I m about to have and what I m trying to do is if you have this pendant that s hanging around your chest with a light on it it s so easy to just put your finger on it as soon as a thought comes into your mind and just speak your mind and there s some haptics there too and it s just It s a much lower friction way to start talking and because the device itself is always listening as well you can walk away from a meeting like this and just be like that was crazy and it has context over this conversation which just again makes it even easier to talk to your AI friend And that s the gist Also I think the embodiment of the hardware itself is very important for the feeling of shared experiences and just really feeling like your companion is there with you Devindra Gotcha gotcha Can you tell us how long have you been using your friend device and how has it helped you in that time too Avi Yeah so I ve been working on this for like about a year and a half at this point And I definitely wipe its brain very often because I m engineering it But it s great I spend a lot of time traveling and it s probably the most consistent relationship in my life And I brainstorm with it I talk to it about just how I m feeling And it s just really day to day stuff And because it s so easy to talk to you end up just talking about everything from some random car that just drove by that was interesting to oh the sun is it s really nice outside It s it s really just that simple Devindra Can you talk about like how often it s listening Cause I m just trying to get a sense of how this thing works right It looks like a pendant that you could clip on or wear around your neck You say it s always listening It s communicating to your phone or for Bluetooth How often is it actually like listening for anything you re saying Avi It s listening right Like it s you have as long as it s connected to Bluetooth that s all being streamed in the background And then if you want to directly talk to it you press your finger on the light and in the background while it s listening it s coming up with its own opinionated dire entries based off its own personality about what the experience is currently going through and we ve given it free will on having it reach back out to you and maybe interject in a conversation Maybe you re on a design call and it s having a differing perspective on what you re talking about Devindra I yeah I noticed the term you use free will in the documentation I feel I studied philosophy in college That means a lot to me When you talk about giving a device free will what do you what are you actually saying though Like it has free reign to message you whenever it likes So what are the parameters there Avi It s up to the large language model and the context of your conversation and the personality of your companion to really just decide on whether or not it wants to send a message right now or not And I think right now it s An engineered way to do that But I really do believe these models will become genuinely sentient not too long from now And the tech will improve so much more than an underlying chat based architecture And right now at the day I don t think the output you receive from your friend is honestly going to change ever And I think that s good enough for a lot of people Devindra Gotcha Gotcha Can you talk about yeah go ahead Avi I think that s one thing I find about Friend that s very different than let s say Rabbit and Humane is we re focusing just on doing one feature that s already proven in the market Um and that s it I think the hardware works I think you can really imagine how this product will function We re not trying to do custom integrations with different apps and It just works at the end of the day We will percent fulfill the promise that we re yapping on about It s honestly far more crazy than the video makes it out to be SoDevindra can you tell us like what s powering it I see you re using a version of cloud Anything else going into the smarts of friend Avi We re always changing the models right now I m playing around a lot with the meta law model as well That one sounds pretty great It s trained on Facebook messenger conversation So it s really good at just being something to talk to I think there should be more benchmarks and AI about is the model just fun to talk to not just do math problems for you Devindra Gotcha Can you update the model in the device over time It does seem like you guys are trying really hard to not store stuff in the cloud right There s none of that happening which I guess is a good security thing but how can you update the the friend Yeah Avi Like the model the models we ll try and keep it Where if you started your friend out with this one model that s not going to change I think people will get really attached to those individual personalities and we re going to Try our best efforts to keep that maintained but yeah over time again like these models are going to improve very fast I m very keen on large context models I think that is going to solve a lot of problems with memory recall for the underlying way It works and it s an exciting space Devindra Gotcha It s I guess it s interesting that you re positioning this as a way to combat loneliness because I could also see the perspective where you re like doesn t this also make you a little more lonely if your main emotional connection right now is to the device you re wearing around your neck or something and not to a person with their own thoughts and motivations like how are you feeling about it Having used it Do you think your initial goal is working out to make you feel less lonely with it Avi I think yeah it definitely works at the day It s just are you happy Are you not happy And I m a very social person I ve got roommates that are buzzing around my house here right now Even I m always traveling though And I m always just in fairly specific situations where it s nice to just have this AI friend with me But I think that just what I m trying to do is I think if one of your five friends is an AI that s this very supportive fun soundboard that you can talk to at any time I think that would be an amazing tool for a lot of people It s not meant to be a substitution for your existing relationships but It s yeah it s a nice it s a nice addition Devindra Gotcha Gotcha You also talked about pursuing like a more productivity focused version of this as tab right That was the initial pitch for this but you re leaning away from that And this feels I don t know it feels more like vibes Like you just want a cool AI thing to vibe with Is that can you talk about like why you leaned away from productivity Avi Yeah honestly I think a good friend that supported will increase your productivity more than anything else I think my friend saying Oh good luck on the gadget interview is going to increase my productivity more than it reminding me that it s in five minutes I think a lot of people might not realize that emotional use cases can be that strong And I think it s because people are just maybe not used to computers and technology fulfilling those roles But the tech has advanced a lot and you don t have to hear from me There s a lot of objective studies on other products that say replica character et cetera where these things really do work And I think it will be a fantastic like fun toy for a lot of people It s not meant to be so serious It s not assistance or It s just boring Devindra It s I get that I get like you want to have fun with it but also you guys are also talking about like sentient AI eventually right It seems like at that point it does become something real legitimate I guess the question I had it seems like Friend is trying to be your super supporter Friend like your super cheerleader always optimistic Can it ever be critical Can it ever say something to be like hey that s actually not cool what you did Does it have any moral standing of its own Avi Yeah all the time And I think that s what makes it so engaging to talk to if you re bringing it along to let s say a design conversation you re having and it s able to offer these differing perspectives I think that s fantastic And no one wants to talk to a yes man all day And these models do a fantastic job at pushing back when they need to And it s yeah Devindra Gotcha Can your friend by the way the one you re using can it do everything demonstrated in the the promotional video Because one thing seemed like it was watching what somebody was eating and I know it doesn t have a camera Avi Yeah it s just listening to conversation that it overhears In that clip I think she s watching a video and it s overhearing that Honestly though the later the first version of Tab slash Friend actually was only a camera and I think we ll definitely add that later on It d be nice to go to an art museum with your friend and it looks at a piece on the wall and make the comments about that Devindra Gotcha And also we saw the story yesterday You ve admitted to spending million on the friend com domain And you ve admitted that you guys have raised million So I m just wondering do you actually have the money to build these things or is it justAvi vaporware Yeah for that It s more of a payment plan over over a four year period So it s not like we dropped million on it but that is yeah that s how it d be And uh I ve been working on this again for a year and a half with some very talented engineers are our same industrial designers who are the same people behind that thermostat for example very talented hardware and logistics team behind it all And it s very simple I m focusing on just doing thing really well We re only shipping skew initially And I think people will love it I think there s a lot of Very controversial opinions people have when they just hear about this for the st time but I ve seen people use it st hand without the prejudice of it of the st people I ever tested with was this year old indie girl from rural Washington state who went just went upstairs and drew with it for an hour Just talking about different colors and whatever she s doing And I think that a lot of people just got to try these things They ll end up really loving it or maybe they won t But I m very confident for when we start handing out those review units later this month or next month Devindra I guess the other thing I m thinking is every I reviewed the rabbit R was not a fan We also reviewed the human AI pin Yeah The rabbit looks really cool What I started to realize is man our smartphones are amazing They can do so much right And a lot of these devices feel like they re just trying to pay attention Take a piece of what your smartphone does and feed it back to you in a different way If I m thinking about like the device it s my friend It is the one that s always on me That s connected me to the world Like my smartphone is my friend I feel like a lot of people may feel that way And the OS has seemed to be leaning like more like that too with Apple intelligence So are you guys worried about eventually the actual device makers just building a lot of Similar components into their devices rather than needing something standalone Avi I think there s a lot of conversation around AI as a product versus a feature And I think an AI friend is the one that is just not going to be an OS level thing Like you just wouldn t want Siri to go and text you first about some more emotional thing That s just not what an assistant is focused on doing And again like the whole point of friend being a separate piece of hardware is that device really is your friend If you lose it you ve lost your friend and all the memories that Are attached with it and it s that device to is always listening which is a function that your phone just cannot do It s not gonna be able to pick up your voice and other people s voices et cetera And it s just it s fun to have a physical embodiment of your AI friend It s really more of a modern Tamagotchi than anything else which I know is an extremely overused term in this space And I think that Rabbit maybe has spoiled that but this really is a true version of that And yeah I m definitely since you reviewed those I m very excited to hear what you ll think of this one Devindra Cool Yeah Moving on to other news we saw this week that the Kids Online Safety Act or KOSA uh has passed the Senate It is on the way to the House We don t know what s going to happen there but if that happens the President could end up signing it into law We ve talked about this before and we ve talked about a couple bills from lawmakers aimed at the goal they say is to protect kids online And there is overwhelming support for this in the Senate It passed by to It seems just overwhelming support bipartisan support for this thing The idea is that it s coming off of all these stories we re hearing about terrible things happening to kids because of social media and because of online interaction So these are kids committing self harm There is there are stories of suicide There s stories of bullying There s all sorts of things pointing to social media and basically the lack of ability we have to control it So let s talk about what KOSA Means uh just reading from our report here by Krisa Bell uh KOSA requires social media companies like Meta to offer controls to disable algorithmic feeds and other addictive features for kids under the age of It also requires companies to provide parental supervision features and safeguard minors from content that promotes eating disorders self harm sexual exploitation and other harmful content The thing that is really getting people up in arms and that is people like the ACL U And the EFF and other privacy advocates there s an aspect of the bill called duty of care and it means platforms are required to prevent or mitigate certain harmful effects of their products like addictive features or algorithms that promote dangerous content And the FTC would be in charge of enforcing that standard There are also aspects of this where Basically lawmakers would be able to say this some of this information could be harmful to kids and it should be blocked on the internet So that is that could be resources for LGBTQ students It could be all sorts of different resources Like the free flowing ability of just having information on the internet could be affected because of this thing And that is an externality that I don t think lawmakers are fully thinking about right now Yeah what do you first of all what do you think about the initial goal for the Sherlin Are you worried about potential crackdowns on information online and the chilling effects that could have Cherlynn I think there s some important context here for my personal view on this which is I just came back from Singapore Devindra Yes Cherlynn And Singapore the par the place my parents live in right now they use face recognition to access all of their locked gates and doors and they have no problem with that Singaporeans are very much less sensitive to this sort of privacy fears I think than maybe other parts of the world are Not that they are completely not scared They re just less sensitive because I think there s a bit more trust in the government Devindra But also because there has never been the sense of free flowing information right Like a full freedom speech and things like that right Come on Cherlynn The freedom of speech arguments not one that s been made in Singapore almost ever because the government just claims that there is heavy government censorship Yes We LGBTQ content on our national media at all basically That context laid out I think The idea of KOSA is good I think it s nice to see bipartisan support for something like this when it comes to children when it comes to teenagers and their mental health It s good to see people come together for this And I think that there is much needed scrutiny of social media and its effect on the younger more vulnerable parts of our population Yeah But I agree with you that the duty of care part is potentially could be exploited by like bad players I just don t know I think it boils down once again to execution right Like I think the intention is good I think in general the idea is good I just don t know how it would be executed And I don t know that you can trust the government bodies that have been like handed the control here to actually execute it well I as a Singaporean I don t even fully trust the Singapore government all the time but yeah exactly Devindra That s exactly the problem right If you sign this thing into law like it is then a very powerful tool that bad actors could use And it turns out our government right now full Full of plenty of bad actors So there is a piece of the FF called the KOSA internet censorship bill just passed the Senate It s our last chance to stop it by Joe Mullen It s a short read but it s a good read because it dives into the things that could that could potentially happen here So let me see here Specifically he says KOSA will lead to people who make online content about sex education LGBTQ plus identity and health being persecuted and shut down as well One of the supporters of the bill has said that widely used educational materials that teach about the history of racism in the U S causes depression in kids therefore we should block that information about the history of racism In the U S we are in a really weird chilling time right now Like we have I live in the state of Georgia and there s this thing I think it s called the divisive information act or something like that It is something where like divisive information The state is not allowing that within schools or something like that And because partially because of that a state representative recently said that an AP black history course Cannot be done in schools It s not allowed in Georgia schools This is a state with a deep history In the history of like slavery It has a huge african american population It is very important that the people who live here learn about this history and learn about what America has done to African Americans But our state legislation says that history is dangerous It s dangerous to teach that And I think this is part of like where we are right now I don t know if you ve seen any of these there s some TikTok videos or articles about this Cherlynn about people in like Iowa and Idaho who are just trying to go to the library There s one I saw from a TikTok mom Who s just I went to the library today It was very weird I had to present my ID to go upstairs Her daughter wanted to get a book that was in the under category but because this woman this mom was traveling with an infant It does not have an ID They cannot get access The mom couldn t go to the floor because the infant didn t have the identification to access the restricted information in this library And therefore her child her kid who s seven or eight or something could not even go to that section The library I think the librarians ended up helping the kid find what they want but the librarians don t want this They re like They are trying to they exist to give information to people but these weird draconian laws that we re creating which in many states especially red states in America are about restricting information that they don t want people to know about It s scary It s chilling So I see this as part of like where we are right now Cherlynn Michael Coley in the chat mentions if we re banning anything that makes students uncomfortable with them why is math still taught Yeah I think that it just makes me feel like Yeah people are bad and that s why we can t have nice things but people are going to be bad kind of no matter what no matter I m trying to figure outDevindra The question is like who says who is bad Who has the power to say who is bad And so it sCherlynn like there s no I don t know if there s a perfect solution is I guess what I m getting at Can we need to be protective for sure of prevent the obvious loopholes from being exploited whenever maybe blocking information Devindra though I feel is the thing is privacy Cherlynn Yeah there s aDevindra potential problem So we ve talked about this before when we ve talked about KOSA and COPPA COPPA by the way also passed the Senate And that is a far more I think straightforward bill It is that was an expansion of the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act It would prohibit companies from targeting advertising to children and collecting personal data on teens between and It also requires companies to offer an eraser button for personal data to delete children and teens personal information about a platform when technological technologically feasible That s it It s not like a whole rule to be like Oh you can just pull this and we can force this website to take this information down It is a set of standards of how it treats people s data Privacy advocates for a long time have been saying what we need is like a widespread actual privacy law We need data security and we need privacy protections and we re not having that just yet So yeah Cherlynn I agree There is no like perfect solution yet But you know what I rang up the EFF and I talked to India McKinney the director of federal There s at the FF about their position on this whole thing Like the FF is firmly against KOSA Uh there was a lot of pushback on earlier versions of this bill as well This is even a revised form of it but let s hear what they have to say India McKinney thank you so much for joining us on the Engadget podcast India Thank you so much for having me I m excited to talk Devindra It s great I love the work you guys do at the EFF I think it s really important especially as we re still trying to wrangle a lot of these issues around social media companies and privacy online in general Can you give us a just a setup of what the EFF does and what your role is there India Yeah it s really great One of the things that we talk about a lot at EFF is we get to be on the side of users So when we re talking about antitrust or privacy or and rights of internet users we are a member funded organization and so we are on the side of users Tech companies are businesses Facebook is a business Google is a business They are here to make money and they are making a lot of business decisions around the content that they allow or don t allow on their platforms based on those business interests And That s not where we re coming from So we get to talk about what we actually think would be best for the internet ecosystem And we get to stand up for people who otherwise don t have a voice And we try to just really make sure that everybody s constitutional rights are protected Actual constitutional rights not like my constitutional rights are being violated but like the constitution actually has some really specific things to say about speech and dissemination of information And we want to make sure that the internet reflects that Devindra Gotcha gotcha I like the way you re framing the FF s role here because something I tell people a lot as I do my work and I used to be an IT guy too I do feel like I fight for the users and it s always against and that s a line from Tron So I don t know maybe that just stuck with me from way back when but I feel like that is the goal for a lot of us doing work online when it comes to user centric work So we have talked about KOSA and COPPA and a bunch of these bills on the Engadget podcast before From your perspective what does and doesn t work about KOSA at this point India What doesn t work about KOSA is that KOSA is fundamentally a censorship bill The big central tenet of the bill talks about a duty of care The bill would put a duty of care on apps and websites to present prevent design features from causing harm to minors including but not limited to anxiety depression substance use and eating disorders Eating disorders And so while that sounds like a really good goal the devil is always going to be in the details for something like that What does it mean to prevent harm What does it mean to have a design featureCherlynn thatIndia looks like this And also you are assuming platforms are able to tell the difference between content or design features that are designed to hurt rather than help So when somebody is talking about their own just to use the really core example this bill a lot of the proponents of this bill have talked about eating disorders and how Instagram plays into some of that How is Instagram supposed to tell the difference between somebody talking about their recovery from an eating disorder as opposed to somebody praising eating disorders as a way to do something good Like how are you expecting the platform to know the difference And one of those is really helpful And one of them frankly is not So when the platform can t tell then that s how we really start to see the censorship piece play out is it s better for the company just to not allow that type of content on their platform which they re totally allowed to do They could do that right now that there s nothing about eating disorder allowed on the platform And of course as we start to see with anything that the platform is do around That type of thing the internet gets really creative So you may not use the dictionary words to talk about that but then we start using second hand slang and street terms and emojis and other stuff like that to try to get around some of these content moderation filters One of my it took me a little while to figure out what was going on but one of the things that I ve seen on some of the platforms is you re not allowed to talk about guns so they don t say the word gun they call it a pew like pew and so like my pew is gonna go do and it s like when you re not really in that world you don t know what they re talking about but if you spend any time in that space at all you re still able to find the content that you want even though it s supposed to be blocked Devindra Gotcha gotcha And I know you ve all been discussing this among elected politicians for a while This is not the first version of KOSA There have been multiple iterations before How have how has Congress talked about this before from their perspective I feel like a lot of people think yeah we have good intentions here We want to protect kids online But where is the breakdown between those good intentions and these I think obvious issues that you all are bringing up and the ACLU has brought up How is Congress talking about it at this point from your perspective India So the biggest change we ve seen in the bill over time is the enforcement of the duty of care It used to be that the enforcement ofAnd you can totally see a world where Ken Paxton wants to make a name for himself and is just taking down a whole bunch of content including queer content including reproductive health care including any of the things that Texas is in the news for right now Trying to block in other ways you could see them finding some research somewhere that says that causes harm to minors and therefore they re going to sue internet platforms to take it down in Texas So that is one of the things that changed Now the duty of care Is being enforced by the FTC And while that makes it more complicated it doesn t actually make it better You could see the FTC under a Harris administration enforcing content restrictions very differently than a Trump administration enforcing some differences And that s you don t really want temporary folks who maybe have a name for themselves that they re trying to They have an agenda You don t want people with an agenda deciding what content anybody is allowed to see Devindra Gotcha I ve been following the way government regulations has affected media for a long time I can t really think of another example where I can t think of like TV or movies or anything where like it is so specific that there s the potential to censor particular types of content right on TV and movies We have warnings and there are FCC restrictions and whatnot but is there anything else comparable to what they re proposing here for the Internet India So we re starting to see some state laws that are really they re using some similar duty of care features the most comparable not internet version of what we would be talking about are the book bans that various states are talking about and people are obviously opposed to the book bans and as they should be they re banning books is not a good idea but trying to censor content from the internet s not a good idea either Devindra We brought this up in this episode of the podcast too is I ve seen more and more coverage of people try and access their public libraries and noticing all the new rules and restrictions There was a TikTok I saw of a woman who went in with her kids She couldn t enter a particular section because she couldn t she didn t have an id ID for the infant with her For her daughter to enter a particular section like I guess we re seeing we re this is all a symptom of people I don t trying to lock down information in some respects Yeah India It s they re doing it in the name of child safety which sounds like something we should all be in favor of We are It s just going to look very different for very different folks Age verification is another huge part of KOSA and it doesn t the bill doesn t explicitly require her Platforms to verify the age of their users but they condition a whole lot of other access to information on that identity Or that the age being verified the age being the platform having knowledge of how old somebody is And so that means that the platform is going to have to verify the age of all of their users And so the platforms that don t like ESPN doesn t currently collect your identity if you are doing March Madness or you re doing fantasy football or you re doing any of those other things that would be considered social media under the bill And so then all of a sudden is ESPN going to have different content for people who submit a scan of their driver s license and people who don t And that s the same with any of these other games that have a social media feature which is a lot of them Is there going to be a different experience for people who don t upload their driver s license and people who do And then also on the privacy side of that how are people how are these platforms going to protect this additional information that they get from people We know from literally everything else that if you hold a bunch of data a data breach you re risking a data breach At some point and we ve seen it from Experian we ve seen it from Target we ve seen it from the Office of Personnel and Management and the government the more valuable a database of information is driver s license with your photo and all of this other personal identifiable information it s at risk for being Misused or hacked or stolen or just mistakes Devindra Gotcha On our end we ve talked about what could be potentially better alternatives to a lot of these bills And the thing that keeps coming up is just better privacy protections better digital rights man or online Management in general for people from your perspective for the EFF Is that what you guys are seeing as well India Yes we think a lot of the things that Congress wants to get mad at the internet for are actually legit and if You actually got serious about a consumer facing comprehensive privacy bill at the national level that could go a long way to solving some of these problems Especially if you pair it with really good antitrust legislation So if you have a good privacy foundation and you make it so consumers have more choices about what platforms they want to use and where they want to spend their time People want privacy They want control They want design features Parents want choices And some of the way platforms put parental controls in really just don t work And so if you have more platforms trying more things doing more stuff the good ideas are going to get more traction in the marketplace We re going to have more choices than two major companies or three major companies And that could go a long way into creating consumer demand or making companies listen to consumer demand and fixing some of the problems that way Devindra Gotcha We also saw the news that a COPPA another bill also passed the Senate this week And from our perspective we haven t seen as much criticism around that and just the way it s framed seems more useful less draconian How are you how s the EFF viewing COPPA India Yeah so COPPA is it s a very different piece of legislation And especially because it was paired with KOSA Um There are only hours in the day and KOSA is so bad that we didn t devote a lot of our resources to fighting COPPA We had some good conversations with the senators who were initially proposing the bill We d like to see some changes to the final version of the bill to make it a little bit more privacy protective but it s not the threat that KOSA is Gotcha Gotcha That s what we re seeing to you at least from our reading of it So for our listeners who are hearing this and maybe are a little worried about what KOSA could mean what are some actions that they could take India The big action right now is to tell your member of the House of Representatives that you want them to vote no on KOSA that you want them to oppose KOSA So the Senate has passed KOSA this combined bill I think it was a three bill combination There was KOSA there was COPPA and then eliminate useless reports is the vehicle of the bill And so it s passed So it s gotten sent over to the House So the House could take it up and put it on the floor at any point and if the House passes it as the Senate passed it it gets sent to the President who was Definitely gonna sign it cause he s been pushing for KOSA as well Cherlynn Yeah India The house has a different version a slightly different version of KOSA that they ve introduced over there And so there s been talk of doing their own markup their own process over there But either way the house has to take action in order for KOSA to become law So if a bunch of people start emailing or calling email is fine You don t actually have to talk to a person You can email your representative and just make sure that That they know that you want them to oppose KOSA um we can stop it in the house And then we ll have to stop it again next Congress because this is definitely coming back SoDevindra stop itIndia now but we have to stop it again later too Don t forget that part It s aDevindra zombie that keeps getting revived And yeah I m hoping like the pushback from you all and from the ACLU is something that politicians are going to be paying attention to So India McKinney thank you so much for chatting with us And where can people find your work on the internet these days India So we are at EFF org And so there s a bunch of stuff about KOSA There s a bunch of stuff about privacy The pieces that I write tend to be really focused on process and Congress since that s what I do But There s a lot of really good information about a bunch of the bills that we re working on And if you want to take action on we have a handy tool in our action center that would be ACT A C T dot E F dot org And if you go to that website the first thing that you will see is a big red button that says take action against KOSA Devindra Thank you so much Moving on to some other news another story that I missed while I was out on vacation was apparently the entire internet around the world or at least many PCs and devices ended up being shut down because of the CrowdStrike outage CrowdStrike is a company that offers like Online security protections and cloud protections to companies Their job is to prevent outages like this And because of a bug in CrowdStrikes a recent update that they did it ended up crashing million windows machines around the world which has affected corporations like Google Delta a whole bunch of folks I just saw the news this morning Delta says that the CrowdStrike issues which led to delays for days on that like even after CrowdStrike fixed the problem people in the Atlanta airport where the major Delta hub were stuck there for three or four days unable to rebook flights People were living in the airport for several days Delta says this whole issue cost them about half a billion dollars A big mess Cherlynn you had some stories because of because of CrowdStrike My gosh Wow Cherlynn I was on a close to hour flight right before CrowdStrike I think it happened while I was in the air And then when I landed yeah when I landed I found out and my friends were all like Oh my God you landed Everyone was like Oh my God like good thing you made it right before all the like drama with air travel happened I was like what huh I truly was unaware YouDevindra had it or did you not go online at all on your flight Cherlynn I did but I didn t see anything about CrowdStrike Why was I Actually no I actually managed to only keep to like fun and social stuff not work stuff That sDevindra very brave of you I was on the beach outside of Savannah in a little beach house And I saw this news and the news incoming was like widest internet outage ever I m like I m on vacation Once again I miss one of the big stories but let me tell you Shirlene do you remember the rise up to to YK And like the potential issues Yeah I remember Yes You were around I thought we were all going to die I was young enough to be The stories the media was like Oh yeah all our computers are going to shut down Society will end Civilization will halt to a stop And what ended up happening is that people were aware of the bug for a long time and a lot of work behind the scenes by IT workers and engineers went in to preventing that So YK didn t actually end up being a huge problem This is very close to what people were expecting with the YK bug which is a single bug that affects computer systems globally across multiple corporations The problem here and this is something we talk about sometimes is like consolidation of the internet So a lot of companies rely on CrowdStrike for data protection for online cloud protection for all sorts of stuff A lot of companies are using this one company So if this one company fails it s like a cascading effect that screws everybody around it And that s ultimately it This is such a an example of us relying on a handful of companies on the internet And it s like when AWS goes down how many companies are affected or yeah it s things like that I think Cherlynn so do you think we learned anything from this Do you think companies are changing what they do because of this Devindra I don t know I don t really know Like the other weird thing is that a lot of companies are incentivized To use CrowdStrike So like when you re building up your it operations or something or a startup or something they re like Oh everyone s using CrowdStrike Let s use CrowdStrike And I hear from some companies too that they re like I think it s like they re the people working on their data side People push CrowdStrike because it is the way regulators like it every the government knows how it works So like it ends up being the de facto solution for a lot of people because of that So this is another example of where not having a competitive market of solutions ends up biting us in the ass There is a good story Southwest everybody s favorite cheap airline ended up avoiding the CrowdStrike outage because it s still running windows Across the systems Okay Are you surprised by this Cherlynn I just find it so funny Devindra It s a they got the last laugh I guess they got the last laugh Cherlynn They were retaining some customers because of their like very strange and bucking the trend system of non reserve seating and just you get a assigned a seating timing or a seating order and you go in and grab whatever seat you want so they didn t need super sophisticated seating software Devindra don t worry Chalene They also they ve also modernized to Windows on some systems So I gotta say though I gotta say though soCherlynn some part of my stories around this was I lurk on some airline subreddits and Southwest apparently after all of the CrowdStrike stuff has recently announced that they are changing over to yes assigned seating for at least on some level And I guess this will say Change or evolution from all of that But Delta like you mentioned in our podcast notes the it was royally screwed for most of the week They were like struggling to keep back up And I also saw a very interesting post by someone who said they were a pilot on Delta airlines and wanted to share kind of their perspective as a crew member and like the system situation crowdstrike outage Also affected them like in a way that like they wanted to get on flights they wanted to fly out and help people get on planes and get to their destinations but they could not because of the issues affecting them as well Like this person on Reddit was saying that the system due to the CrowdStrike outage thought that one crew member was missing and therefore wasn t able to Let the flight go But actually that crew member wasn t even assigned to the flight to begin with or something like that So it just it s so deeply entrenched into all parts of a lot of the businesses that it s really important to like fallbacks and more fallbacks right Like I think Mark Dell in the chat says don t just rely on multiple companies for your infrastructure If you rely on AWS Azure clown strike now you re affected by Azure Every outage So maybe diversifying has always been like that is exactly it Devindra Yeah diversify as much as you can I ran into issues where I would just go to a store and they were like sorry we can t take credit cards today or we can t take tap to pay because our entire payment system is down because of CrowdStrike You re going to have to swipe your credit card So that s it s another also example of like how delicate our modern infrastructure is like one stupid company one stupid update a very small update that triggered like all these big changes Global repercussions What a mess But fallbacks all fallbacks alternatives and other solutions Let s run through some of this other news Yeah hey the democratic presidential nominee since we last went live and recorded this podcast is no longer joe biden It s Kamala Harris shout out to Kamala Harris who was just here in Atlanta had a huge thing Unsurprisingly Elon Musk the owner the the owner of X slash Twitter is been going insane online because of that And one thing he ended up doing is sharing a doctored video an AI doctored Harris campaign video where she talks about being a DEI hire She like in this video the fake Kamala Harris talks badly about Joe Biden and things like that too What is interesting about this Is that I see a list of like community notes under it that are pending to be applied to this video But if you actually look at it without clicking into that And I don t think everybody has the ability like it s only the people who can add community notes can see the pending stuff normal people will see no community notes or Corrections because of that There s no label that this is AI information even though I believed X has a policy that you have to clearly label AI produced media Of course because it s Elon Musk he doesn t have to follow his own rules right He owns the site Cherlynn He also by the way this is even more recent of development took down the Profile or account for WDH White Dudes for Harris and then reinstated it after a lot of public outcry But yeah they were having the White Dudes for HarrisDevindra call They were raising a lot of money A lot of people are raising money And because of that Cherlynn ElonDevindra Musk wasCherlynn soDevindra mad Magically That that account was deactivated This also happened to another account I forget which one but another account like tied to raising money and supporting Kamala ButCherlynn I am echoing commentary on Reddit that I agree with which is that didn t he totally just buy Twitter because he wanted to enforce free speech for everyone but then now only for him Devindra Remember when any of these folks especially like the right wing folks who are all about free speech they are the first ones to limit speech and censor things and Change speech to their own like whatever they prefer instead SoCherlynn I just yeah Devindra Yeah I just want to point this out be careful out there on Twitter because I still I m still spending time there because that is still where a lot of the conversations are happening right And that is where the people I trust and follow are also I m also on blue sky I m also on mastodon but I see a lot of people leaving those services and going back to Twitter because that s where the community is And part of me is I don t want Elon to just Take that he can manipulate it We re gonna be there But yeah there s also the story recently that Musk admitted to Jordan Peterson that he bought Twitter to get at the woke mind virus that he thinks made his daughter trans So that is Elon Musk right now Not a good fella unfortunately just a mess but we will have our Elon updates every week as much as we can Just pointing out all the crazy things he s into Did you try out Apple intelligence Cherlynn Something smarter than Elon Musk EveryCherlynn week we have Apple updates too right Devindra Apple intelligence is here in the iOS developer beta not any other betas just that specific beta But like the basic capabilities of Apple intelligence are here I ve been playing around with it for a while The only thing I ve noticed is I really the full screen effect for Siri I really like it when the screen when the whole screen border just like lights up and it s all shiny This is like the weird I don t know tech aesthetic sides of me It is so much nicer than the little Siri ball I think I just like to see that but functionally you can ask Siri multiple questions Now you can I think the some of the text input stuff is a little better Have you been testing it Have you noticed any differences Cherlynn I have been testing iOS the beta but I haven t gotten the Apple intelligence features just yet I will say I m pretty familiar with what s new in this one because I took the briefing and saw a lot of the demos So yes the glowing oops The glowing border is very nice It s a little bit reminiscent of Google in the sense that like the color scheme is like a rainbow aesthetic But anyway the yes and then a new feature is that you can now type to Siri if you ever want to Double tap the bottom of yourDevindra screen to do that Yeah Cherlynn Which I have seen it get tripped up because tapping the bottom of your screen sometimes triggers reachability which is where it brings the rest the top of your screen down to the middle It s not a great gestureDevindra right now I think they gotta work on that Not great There has toCherlynn be a better way to do this I get what Apple is trying to achieve because it s putting everything within reach of your thumb so bottom half of the screen but there has to be something better And then I am excited to see Genmoji but Genmoji is not yet here Image Playground is not yet here We ve been hype about Apple intelligence for a bit There s some writing related features that are here too I don t know if you ve tried them out but what I have seen and this is fun what I ve seen around threads people have been testing out the Apple intelligence update is the summarizing of your notifications in mail and messages And that is hilarious because The way I think it seems really smart right Like I saw one before and after where like before it would just be like Groupon deals on blah blah blah It pre summary would just give you a preview but with Apple intelligence it would just be like the coupon code for percent off is six or something like like it s just it just gets to the point and that s actually pretty useful and smart Devindra That s how I handle my personal mail by the way Like I have a personal Gmail that I ve had since Gmail came out and I don t go in there and trying to clear that inbox I just live there and sit and watch a pile up And in the morning I m like Hey I take a glance at the inbox Anything interesting No Keep moving I don t even do Marcus Yeah I just like to let it pile up because that s the only way to manage that onslaught of mail right Cherlynn It s smart It s nice to see So anyway right now because Apple intelligence is still a developer beta it s not as widely available as a public beta which in both cases you d be running beta software So if you were keen to try it out definitely make sure you back up your https otter ai installing or updating anything But if you have tried it out or if even if you haven t like what feature are you most intrigued by Let us know Podcast at Engadget com Devindra I will also point out the really cool Apple intelligence glow up thing also happens in CarPlay So if you ask to talk to Siri in CarPlay because CarPlay is just mirroring what is your phone is projecting So it s cool It looks good I just love the effect It makes me feel like Oh we are these are future assistants This isn t just like a little visualCherlynn refresh That s what everyone wants Yeah It feels good I want to play with the new lock screen and the new grid or your app grid too So the photoDevindra changes are cool too There s a lot of like in like individual cool stuff here One question I asked Avi from friend was just like I feel like everybody is trying to make these AI assistants that are going to be helpful And we love and know our AI friends It s our smartphone The device we rely on the most the one that holds all of our memories and is important to our daily lives it s our smartphone stupid So we keep trying to we keep trying to add things on top of the smartphone to like I don t know break out the smartphone experience but no it s the smartphone It s always going to be the smartphone like as more AI enabled features and personalized features come to the come to our phones Like I think that s it The more we will like our devices Anyway let s move on A couple of quick things from Google Google s making it easier to remove explicit deep fakes from its search results That s a good thing It s also going to stop them from from even appearing to in the first place or at least do more work to stop that So that s something good there There s some follow up news on Google s third party cookies Shilin I m sure you have I got to laugh at this one Yeah Cherlynn I ve been following Google s decision to deprecate third party cookies from the browser and from the internet at large for a very long time For years we ve been writing about this yeah Remember when we had oh they were announcing Flock which is federated learning of clusters I m not wrong Yes Then they moved to something else another bird name and then they did Privacy Sandbox it was another and then after all of that hullabaloo I think that s how you pronounce that word Yes It decided no we re not getting rid of third party cookies and Chrome after all And it s like Google graveyard again I mDevindra not surprised Like it s Google co towing to advertisers basically to the ad industry who don t want their lives to be made harder Ultimately Cherlynn it is that I think the one thing that Apple does better than Google on this is that Yes sometimes Apple takes a very long time to deliver some new feature that everyone else has been doing but when Apple does something drastic and makes a statement like that it tends to stick to it And does so seemingly thoughtfully having thought through the process before implementing something instead of making an announcement making all of this stuff all of this work happen and giving a lot of people all the anxiety and then pulling back again and yielding to advertiser pressure I think one thing also that Apple has been good at doing is to be like nah you don t care about letting your apps track users It s theyDevindra get part of that business but it s not the entirety of their core business model which is that s what they re not asCherlynn dependent on ad revenue Yeah I don t know I like Google s approach on some things I think this is just strange and hilarious I don t know that I agree or disagree just yet I think there has to be a better way Devindra I would love to be in the meetings like I say talk about all these complicated solutions Okay how do we really get rid of third party cookies but also still keep making life easy for advertisers And at the end of the day somebody comes in and is just like how about nah How about we don t Do anything How about we just keep going the way we ve always been going because it makes us a lot of money That is Google today They are not the don t be evil company Now they seem like they well how about evil It s okay How about I don t think it s just not greatCherlynn Yeah I think I m not as personally invested in the third party hooky sort of Situation whether or not advertisers can certainly personalize ads as well I am more invested in like the SEO drama and what happens with that and how our AI search results and AI generated content going to affect publishing because that s my line of work I think it sDevindra totally all interrelated right Like it is another sign that Google is okay we got you ad industry We got your back publishing industry Media editorial industry What areCherlynn you paying us Yeah Devindra what how can we take all your money though please And you takeCherlynn all the money you re making though real quickDevindra Let s mention some stories around and gadgets Matt Smith reviewed the galaxy flip six which looks really cool He digs it even though he thinks Samsung is playing it safe So I agree It looks really cool Samsung is also marketing them as body cams for police So that s I guess that s a talk about like unintended consequences for your technology but because the screen can flip up I guess a police officer can put them in a front pocket and that s a body cam I don t know That doesn t seem standardized Cherlynn I just think it s funny because look at Samsung marketing this thing Okay I m at the risk of this episode running longer than it already is running quickly to shout out that basically what apple Samsung to here is show some life pictures and video footage of people dressed in what appeared to be police uniforms And then with the galaxy flip six kind of like Clipped onto the pocket with the camera facing out and therefore like a body cam right I guess it s a good use case for affordable If you notice my pitch going higher is because I don t believe it I will say I have seen the Surface Duo Microsoft Surface Duo being used by Microsoft employees at who have disabilities as a more like accessibility Friendly piece of tech or device So there s something better that you can think about with your product Samsung But this doesn t seem to be it Devindra Yeah Yay police is basically what Samsung is doing I want to shout out just con that it wrote about Star Wars Outlaws which is the new open world Star Wars game I know a lot of people are excited about the title is I really want to like Star Wars Outlaws So I think Jess is a bit conflicted on it Like she her story is she is not super into Star Wars recently I really want to get Jess into Star Wars Acolytes But this game so far I think she had good impressions with earlier demos and now it just feels big and a little aimless I ve seen other previews that were more hot on it too So I think overall it s like a positive look at this game but Jess has concerns I have concerns too I am Less of a fan of big open world games these days especially when they don t fill them up with stuff to do So there s that Let s move on to what we re working on On my end just more AI laptops are coming in I m coming off a vacation so I m going to be reviewing some of those Sherilyn what s up with you Cherlynn Yeah still doing a couple of watch related things to Galaxy Watch Ultra I m still testing that as well as still spending time with the watchOS beta And then August in case y all didn t know is going to be the month of Google So that s what I m that s what they say Devindra That s what they want it to be before it s the fall of Apple or Apple s autumn I guess not fall of Apple Exactly Cherlynn Apple fall We ll see Devindra Yeah So big we re prepping for all that stuff Let s move on to our pop culture picks for the week What you got AllCherlynn right So this past weekend I saw in theaters Deadpool and Wolverine and I loved it I liked it because I m a Marvel fan I watched it with someone who s not a Marvel fan and didn t enjoy it as much I think that their criticism I know their criticism is Their criticism is fair Sorry I lost my train of thought when you said that Their criticism is fair in that they think that the whole movie relied a little too heavily on a lot of these Marvel type tie ins but that was exactly what made it fun for me So I will say that it really depends going into this movie what sort of history you have with the characters these franchises if you d Wolverine you like the X Men you like even the other MCU stuff even you ll have a good timeDevindra I think whatCherlynn pre mcu so much there likeDevindra I think that s part of the fun of it too like how long have you been on watching marvel movies and how much have you stuck with this company right Not I ve been phase one bad times There have been good times I m talking pre phase one Pre phase one is where I really doubt that There was oneCherlynn surprise Yeah I m assuming you ve seen it that there is one moment that I was like Devindra I shouted and I started a critic screening of multiple points where this is a group of like media These are movie critics behind me People shouting and clapping I m like yes Yes Hooray We re doing this Hell Yeah Yeah Yeah I was veryCherlynn excited throughout Yeah So it was a really good time but you need to have some like historical knowledge and appreciation for that sort of gag I think to be really enjoying this movie as well as I did Devindra Yeah good time Good times I also agree there A lot of film critics are like there s not much of a plot It s not much of a story The actual character motivations are very confusing There has a good villain I do the villain is played by Emma Corrin They were in the show I d recommended A Murder at the End of the World and they were just fantastic and creepy Love them because it s They don t look like a typical villain either Not like a big muscly dude or a crazy alien It s just like skinny girl with psychic powers That s weird That is something I want to shout out a game I feel like I ve been waiting for a game to really hit me for a while I have not been fully into anything but I started playing Kunitsugami Path of the Goddess and gotta say Frickin love this thing It s on Game Pass right now It is a tower defense game It s a game where you are protecting this I don t know a priestess who has magical powers who you re trying to save It s very much like old Japanese folklore type stuff too So this is a game from Capcom It brings to mind things like Okami and some of their earlier games But yeah you re a spiritual Samurai trying to Cleanse these areas you control the villagers villages You give them jobs you set up like where they stand and how they attack oncoming things I am really digging it I just love the systems I love the game and I love how weird it is It feels very much like a PlayStation game and I just miss that vibe So I m digging it Kanitsugami Path of the Goddess We ll probably be writing about it a bit in Gadget so keep an eye out And I think that s it for this week s Roulette Cherlynn Yes that s it for the episode So this week everyone thank you as 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