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Pennsylvania enacts law regulating AI-generated advertisements

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Across the nation, there appears to be growing frustration with the explosion of AI-generated advertising plaguing small-business storefronts and restaurant interiors. Last Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, mandating that all ads, from million-dollar television commercials to printed flyers passed out on the street, contain a disclosure label in the same format as the ad itself. SEE ALSO: Hackers find a way to turn users' own AI agents and Downloads folders against them The purpose of the bill is to combat false or misleading advertising, which is much easier to engage in with the help of AI-generated content. The bill, as introduced, states: "An advertiser may not create and disseminate or cause to be created and disseminated an advertisement that uses synthetic content in a manner that creates a false consumer perception about the nat...

NYT Pips hints, answers for October 25, 2026

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level. How to play Pips If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match. SEE ALSO: ...

Elon Musk actually follows through on Grok AI adaptation of The Odyssey

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Elon Musk doesn’t have a great track record of following through on his promises. According to MuskOmeter , a site that tracks the pledges Musk has made and whether he’s kept them, he’s at about a 24 percent hit rate. So it’s almost impressive that one of his sillier promises from this year actually came true. Late Friday afternoon, Musk shared the first of several planned episodes of an AI-generated version of Homer’s The Odyssey , made with Grok Imagine, the AI video generator from his company xAI. According to a post from the Grok Imagine account, the project is a collaboration between Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. Both specialize in generative AI filmmaking. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Musk first made the promise in July. As Mashable reported at the time , he posted on X that, before the year ended, Grok Imagine would make a full-length  Odyssey  movie that would...

Only one person in the world can play this free Steam game at a time

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Jono is the work of Tuomas Erikoinen, the artist behind the original Angry Birds, who now makes games on his own as Part Time Monkey. In the game, when your turn finally comes up, you get exactly one minute to steer the tiny pixel-art hero past spikes, crushers, ice, and... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/dJTEnKI via

Vibe-coded emulator adds color to Virtual Boy's red monochrome games

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Despite selling just 770,000 units worldwide, Nintendo's Virtual Boy still has a small but dedicated fan base experimenting with new ways to use the console. The stereoscopic system failed to achieve commercial success and could display games only in monochrome red hues. Now, a new emulator called VBoy Color aims... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/MczXBve via

What is Kindle+? A library of books at your fingertips for just $12 a month.

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As of Oct. 22, 2026, Amazon has rebranded Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+. We've updated this article to reflect the name change. E-readers are one of our favorite topics to cover here at Mashable. Partly because we love testing them, but also because there is so much you can do with an e-reader to maximize your experience. We've walked through instructions on how to download EPUB files to a Kindle , covered the joys of Libby and Stuff Your Kindle Day , and taught you how to save when you spend with Kindle Rewards , but now we want to talk about Kindle+. If you're a Kindle user, when you got your device, you were probably offered a free trial of Kindle+. But what exactly are you signing up for? In short, it's like Amazon's very own library service... except you have to pay for it. Here's everything you need to know about Kindle+. SEE ALSO: 8 Kindle features you should be using What is Kindle+? Formerly k...

Discord improves Markdown previews, server organization, and media sharing

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Discord's latest update brings some welcome quality-of-life improvements. Markdown files now display properly formatted previews, while a new "Move to..." option makes organizing servers and channels easier. Behind the scenes, a rewritten Rust engine promises better color accuracy and more reliable image and video sharing. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/wsDVzlu via