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New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-doesnt-want-you…

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

Apple is trying to get consumers to accept,
and even welcome,
a new reality:
Your tech is always listening.
At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event,
where the company introduced its new hardware lineup,
the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone,
but how the privacy-sensitive tech giant has decided its watches will now be able to process live audio
and transcribe what was said.
Does this mean you’re always being recorded i…

Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

SPJ releases a draft of its revised ethics code, its first update since 2014, including removing a line that journalism should "give voice to the voiceless" (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature…

The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics code, shared exclusively with CJR.
The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics guidelines—the first update since 2014.

Google-Play-Dienste: Neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte im Juli
Google verteilt neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte über die Play-Dienste. Offenbar liefert der Konzern auch bereits vor Monaten angekündigte Features nach.

Google-Play-Dienste: Neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte im Juli
Google verteilt neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte über die Play-Dienste. Offenbar liefert der Konzern auch bereits vor Monaten angekündigte Features nach.

If a Mastodon account chooses your account to add to one of their collections of featured accounts, how does one _accept_ the addition so your account will actually show up in their collection under the featured tab?
#MastodonHelp

Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with a new S11 chip, upgraded health tracking, an Audio Intelligence feature, a readiness feature, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/09/apple-watch-serie…

Apple Watch Series 12 announced: Features, price, release date
Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are official. Apple has announced its two new Apple Watch models...

How a 2023 deal that gave Pennsylvania newspaper LNP to public radio station WITF brought financial woes and self-dealing allegations, and ultimately fell apart (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-

What happened in Lancaster?
The saga of a public radio station, a regional newspaper, the Pennsylvania family that funded them, and an NPR host turned nonprofit executive.

Apple adds a Reference Image feature to the iPhone 18 Pro, which digitally authenticates that photos taken with its camera haven't later been altered by AI (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/09/iphone-18-pro-can-authent…

iPhone 18 Pro can authenticate that your photo wasn't edited with AI - 9to5Mac
Apple is introducing a new Reference Image feature as part of the new iPhone 18 Pro, which digitally authenticates that...

Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-0…

Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20