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Emma Roth

Emma Roth

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Emma Roth is a news writer at The Verge, where she covers just about everything in the world of tech. Some of her favorite topics to follow include the ever-evolving streaming industry, the latest in artificial intelligence, and changes to the way our government interacts with Big Tech. Previously, Emma wrote and edited technology news and how-to articles for MUO.

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The nonprofit behind a popular AI training dataset says it purged links to CSAM.

Last year, Stanford researchers found that LAION-5B — the dataset used by Stable Diffusion — contained thousands of links to child abuse imagery. LAION has since attempted to address this issue by re-releasing a clean version of the model, now called RE-LAION-5B:

In all, 2236 links were removed after matching with the lists of link and image hashes provided by our partners. These links also subsume 1008 links found by the Stanford Internet Observatory report in Dec 2023. 


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Google’s new Nest thermostat isn’t as bright as it should be.

Users apparently can’t adjust the brightness on the new Nest Learning Thermostat, leaving the display too dim at times. Fortunately, it seems a fix is on the way, as Google has told 9to5Google that it will soon roll out a way to adjust brightness.


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Nintendo Japan has run out of New 3DS parts.

In a post on X, Nintendo’s Japanese support account says the company will no longer offer New 3DS repairs because it has “run out of parts necessary for repairs.”

Nintendo Japan also plans to stop repairing the regular 3DS and 2DS once it runs out of parts. It recently stopped fixing the Wii U as well.