Intercepting creeps Google Messages can now blur unwanted nudes, remind people not to send them Google's Sensitive Content Warnings can keep Messages rated PG. Ryan Whitwam – Apr 22, 2025 11:51 am | 31 SafetyCore runs on-device AI to detect nudes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam SafetyCore runs on-device AI to detect nudes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more Google announced last year that it would deploy safety tools in Google Messages to help users avoid unwanted nudes by automatically blurring the content. Now, that feature is finally beginning to roll out. Spicy image-blurring may be enabled by default on some devices, but others will need to turn it on manually. If you don't see the option yet, don't fret. Sensitive Content Warnings will arrive on most of the world's Android phones soon enough. If you're an adult using an unrestricted phone, Sensitive Content Warnings will be disabled by default. For teenagers using unsupervised phones, the feature is enabled but can be disabled in the Messages settings. On supervised kids' phones, the feature is enabled and cannot be disabled on-device. Only the Family Link administrator can do that. For everyone else, the settings are available in the Messages app settings under Protection and Safety. To make the feature sufficiently private, all the detection happens on the device. As a result, there was some consternation among Android users when the necessary components began rolling out over the last few months. For people who carefully control the software installed on their mobile devices, the sudden appearance of a package called SafetyCore was an affront to the sanctity of their phones. While you can remove the app (it's listed under "Android System SafetyCore"), it doesn't take up much space and won't be active unless you enable Sensitive Content Warnings. Now, at least, SafetyCore is doing something, according to 9to5Google. SafetyCore allows your phone to do basic AI image classification so it can identify images that may contain nudity. If your phone spots such an image arriving in your inbox, it will apply a blur filter and present a "speed bump" that lets you decide if you want to see said image. You can also choose to block the number that sent it. Sensitive Content Warnings also remind users who are sending nudes that they may want to rethink that. Like the incoming image speed bump, you can dismiss this one and continue sending unimpeded. It's a lot like Apple's identically named Sensitive Content Warning. Sensitive Content Warnings are coming to all Android devices with Google apps running version 9 or higher, but it's starting with those in the Google Messages beta. Unlike many features, this one is even available to the oft-forgotten Android Go lineup. However, your phone needs to have at least 2GB of RAM, which virtually every working Android phone should have. Content blurring and speed bumps will only appear in the Google Messages app, so you may need to switch to that app on certain phones. If you don't want to wait for the wide rollout, you can join the Messages beta in the Play Store to hurry the process along. Ryan Whitwam Senior Technology Reporter Ryan Whitwam Senior Technology Reporter Ryan Whitwam is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering the ways Google, AI, and mobile technology continue to change the world. Over his 20-year career, he's written for Android Police, ExtremeTech, Wirecutter, NY Times, and more. He has reviewed more phones than most people will ever own. You can follow him on Bluesky, where you will see photos of his dozens of mechanical keyboards. 31 Comments

Trump said tariffs on China are currently "very high." Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images 2025-04-23T06:06:36Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? On Tuesday, Trump said the 145% tariffs on China were "very high." He said tariffs will "come down substantially," but would not drop to zero. Trump previously floated a tariff respite for China if Beijing agreed to cut a deal with the US on TikTok. President Donald Trump said final tariffs on goods from China would "not be anywhere near" the current rate of 145%, and would "come down substantially."During a press conference in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that "145% is very high, and it won't be that high.""It'll come down substantially, but it won't be zero," he added.The president's comments were in response to a question about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said earlier on Tuesday that the tariffs between China and the US have essentially created a trade embargo. Trump said the US was "going to be very good to China, have a great relationship with President Xi." He did not provide more details on whether he was in negotiations with Beijing over the tariffs.Last week, Trump said he may not raise tariffs on China further, even if China continues to do so, saying there's a point at which "people don't buy."Representatives for Trump and the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.Trump imposed a 10% tariff on China in February. He said the tariff was aimed at stemming the flow of drugs from China into the US.Since then, the two countries have spent weeks stacking retaliatory tariffs on each other, escalating trade tensions. US tariffs on goods from China now stand at 145%. China has retaliated with 125% tariffs on US-made goods.Trump has used tariffs as a negotiation strategy. On April 3, he said he would be open to reducing tariffs on countries if they were willing to give the US "something that's so phenomenal."He floated a tariff relief for China if it agreed to a deal on TikTok. China's ByteDance, which owns TikTok, faces a looming deadline to divest from the app or have it banned in the US."Maybe I'll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done, you know, because every point in tariffs is worth more money than TikTok," Trump said in March. Recommended video

Lockheed Martin's CEO, James Taiclet, said he wants to improve the F-35 so it can match 80% of sixth-generation aircraft capabilities. JOHN THYS / AFP via Getty Images 2025-04-23T05:44:26Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? James Taiclet says he has a new idea for Lockheed Martin: Beef up the F-35 with its failed bid for NGAD. Lockheed Martin lost the bid for the NGAD, now called the F-47, to Boeing. Taiclet wants his engineers to integrate tech and ideas from their sixth-gen research into the F-35. Lockheed Martin didn't win the bid for America's next-generation fighter, but its CEO still wants to build a jet that's in almost the same league.At the company's first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, James Taiclet said he has set a new goal for his staff: To soup up the F-35 so it can match 80% of the F-47's capabilities for half the cost."My challenge to my aeronautics team is, let's get 80% of sixth-gen capability at half the price," Taiclet said."And that's something that — and these are engineers, they wouldn't have agreed to this if they didn't think there was a path to get there — that's something we're going to go out and do," he added.Taiclet called this "fifth-generation plus." Lockheed's plan to get there, he said, would leverage its experienceThe firm ultimately lost the bid for the sixth-generation stealth fighter to Boeing, which President Donald Trump announced in late March as the selected manufacturer. That decision rocked Lockheed's reputation in the stealth fighter game, which it had dominated with the Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, and F-35 Lightning II.At Tuesday's earnings call, Taiclet said Lockheed wants to move on from losing the award."We are not going to protest the NGAD decision of the US government," he said, referring to Next-Generation Air Dominance, which is the US program to create the sixth-generation successor to the F-22. "We are moving forward and moving out on applying all the technologies that we developed for our NGAD bid onto our embedded base of F-35 and F-22.""It's a little kind of — not uncomfortable — but novel for our industry to think that way," Taiclet added. "But we are thinking that way."He compared his ambition to beefing up a road vehicle so much that it becomes a race car."So, the F-35. So we're basically going to take the chassis and turn it into a Ferrari. It's like a NASCAR upgrade, so to speak," he said.Taiclet said Lockheed had worked on developing better sensors and stealth techniques for its sixth-gen bid, and could apply those technologies to improve the F-35. He also mentioned a newer tracking system and longer-range weapons.He told analysts that the idea is for advanced aircraft to avoid dogfights if they can. "We want to shoot the other guy, as I said, before he even knows we're there," he said.Boeing's F-47 is meant to be America's most advanced stealth fighter yet, with plans for the aircraft to fly in tandem with semiautonomous "wingmen" drones. With air superiority as its priority, one of the next-generation fighter's primary roles is to destroy enemy aircraft.Meanwhile, the F-35, a multi-role fighter that entered service in 2015, is Lockheed's headline export. Taiclet said the company expects to deliver between 170 and 190 F-35s in 2025, with a backlog of about 360 more aircraft.Lockheed reported a net profit of $1.7 billion for the first quarter ending on March 30, up from $1.5 billion in the first quarter of 2024. Earnings of $7.28 per share beat Wall Street's expectations of $6.34 per share.The company's stock price climbed 0.82% to $462.08 at market close on Tuesday.Boeing and Lockheed Martin did not respond to requests for comment sent outside regular business hours by Business Insider. Recommended video

House in Hirano / FujiwaraMuro ArchitectsSave this picture!© Toshiyuki Yano Architects: FujiwaraMuro Architects Area Area of this architecture project Area:  80 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022 Photographs Photographs:Toshiyuki Yano Lead Architects: FujiwaraMuro Architects More SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The site is in a residential area in Osaka City. The client purchased a plot of land　subdivided into lots for ready-built houses, and the project began. The plot purchased was a flagpole lot. However, given that we could use up to 3 meters of the width of the pole section, we had some room to manipulate.Save this picture!Save this picture!Taking advantage of the 3-meter-wide pole portion, we sought a plan where a part of the house would encroach on the pole section. The client's family of five requested a house that was compact enough but with enough space for private rooms and that served the basic residential needs, but was also stimulating and unique.Save this picture!Save this picture!The site is surrounded by buildings on all four sides, making it difficult to have any view from the windows in the exterior walls. However, looking up, one can see the sky. Therefore, we first created a skylight and then conceived a composition centered around the light from that skylight.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!We envisioned the plan as a gradual stacking of natural terrain, which gives a feeling of being outside inside the house. We thought that this outdoor feeling would provide a sense of openness and freedom. To disrupt the feeling of a conventional house, we first set different floor levels and created various places to stay where you feel like sitting on top of a natural terrain.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Through a series of discussions with the client, we converted the topography-like irregular configuration into drawings, eventually materializing it into reality. We hope that this space-making process will provide the family with the pleasure of finding unexpected places to stay from now on.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less About this office Published on April 23, 2025Cite: "House in Hirano / FujiwaraMuro Architects" 23 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1029353/house-in-hirano-fujiwaramuro-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Reinventing the Cooking Ritual with AI at the Heart of the HomeSponsored ContentSave this picture!Courtesy of AEGThe role of the kitchen has undergone a remarkable transformation—evolving from a purely functional space into the central hub of the home, where creativity thrives and meaningful connections are made. This shift is closely linked to the growing popularity of cooking as a hobby, spurred by a surge in culinary-focused TV shows and dedicated channels. It reflects a broader cultural movement towards authenticity in an increasingly digital world—a counterpoint to the fast-paced nature of modern life that emphasizes a slower, more mindful lifestyle, often referred to as "slow living".This trend also aligns with a growing focus on health and wellness, as well as a renewed appreciation for nature and cultural heritage. Today, the kitchen is more than just a place to prepare meals—it's where families gather, friends connect, and culinary skills are honed and celebrated. Yet, even an activity as elemental and hands-on as cooking can be transformed by technology. Beyond traditional electronic utensils and appliances that simplify many processes, Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a powerful ally in the modern kitchen.Designing a Smart Kitchen with AEGAEG, a premium brand renowned for its fusion of cutting-edge engineering and refined aesthetics, has introduced a new kitchen line that exemplifies how home technology both shapes and is shaped by contemporary trends in design and architecture. This new range sits at the intersection of intelligent systems design, sustainable innovation, and seamless spatial integration. Save this picture!The appliances cater to a growing user profile: the home cook who values sleek design and embraces smart technology. At the heart of this line is AI TasteAssist, a feature that interprets key recipe variables — such as time, temperature, and protein type — to automatically select the ideal cooking settings. Studies show that 80% of consumers search for recipes online, but many are still unsure how to use their ovens efficiently. The technology was created to fill this gap, ensuring consistent and optimized results, turning the oven from a passive device into an intelligent co-chef.Save this picture!Save this picture!AEG's CookSmart Touch Display deepens the dialogue between user and appliance, introducing a cross-category interface that spans ovens, hobs, and even built-in coffee machines. With guided, step-by-step instructions, it empowers home cooks to master techniques once reserved for professionals — from sous-vide to precision boiling. Blending tactile gestures with fluid screen transitions, the interface reflects a broader design movement where digital and analog sensibilities converge.A Dialogue Between Aesthetics and User ExperienceVisually, the new Kitchen Range adopts a minimalist aesthetic, defined by refined materials and a timeless graphic identity. Available in Matt or Glossy Black finishes, each appliance features bespoke metal handles and carefully calibrated proportions. The collection integrates seamlessly into diverse contemporary interiors — from expansive lofts to compact Scandinavian studios — offering visual unity where kitchens often suffer from fragmented styling. Rather than standing apart, the appliances become part of the architecture, reinforcing bold spatial ideas while quietly elevating daily routines.Save this picture!As sustainability takes center stage in architecture and interior design, the new line delivers tangible impact: up to a 30% reduction in carbon emissions during the usage phase, verified through TÜV-certified Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Smart features like the 9000 ProAssist with SteamPro Oven and the 9000 SensePro Hob optimize heat through intelligent preheating and residual heat use, delivering energy efficiency without compromising on performance.In this context, AEG's new kitchen range is not just a collection of high-performance appliances that are pleasing to the eye. It is a modular and innovative system that empowers designers to reimagine the kitchen as a responsive, stylish and future-proof hub of the home that will inevitably involve artificial intelligence.For more design and product insights, visit the AEG YouTube Channel. Image gallerySee allShow less About this authorEduardo SouzaAuthor••• Cite: Eduardo Souza. "Reinventing the Cooking Ritual with AI at the Heart of the Home" 23 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028933/reinventing-the-cooking-ritual-with-ai-at-the-heart-of-the-home&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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