Sunday, March 19, 2023

YouTube Music will now auto-download recently played songs on Android

YouTube Music has got a new feature that will enable users to automatically download recently played songs they played. The feature, which is available on Android, is enabled by default. The feature was spotted by 9to5Google, and a few TOI-Gadgets now team members are able to see it under Settings > Downloads and storage menu. The feature is available for those with a Premium subscription. https://ift.tt/B5Km9RL

Source: in an upcoming testimony to Congress this Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020 (Carol E. Lee/NBC News)

Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Source: in an upcoming testimony to Congress this Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020  —  When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests …



The FDIC announces an agreement to sell Signature Bank's assets to Flagstar Bank, a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (Pete Schroeder/Reuters)

Pete Schroeder / Reuters:
The FDIC announces an agreement to sell Signature Bank's assets to Flagstar Bank, a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp  —  A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits and loans from New York-based Signature Bank …



Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached about 1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company has hit its forecasted deliveries to advertisers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached about 1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company has hit its forecasted deliveries to advertisers  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles.  It's good to be home and I hope your March Madness bracket is doing better than mine.



UChicago researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their "artistic IP", by adding imperceptible "perturbations" to their art (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UChicago researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their “artistic IP”, by adding imperceptible “perturbations” to their art  —  Generative art's style mimicry, interrupted  —  The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists …



Researchers detail a recently fixed aCropalypse vulnerability in Google Pixel's Markup tool that lets some screenshots be retroactively unredacted or uncropped (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Researchers detail a recently fixed aCropalypse vulnerability in Google Pixel's Markup tool that lets some screenshots be retroactively unredacted or uncropped  —  Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel's Markup screenshot tool.



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...