AT&T is kicking off 2025 with a new AT&T Guarantee program that the company says will set a new bar for customer and network service. The headlining part of the announcement? AT&T will now credit you if you experience a network outage There are two categories of customers eligible for these credits, AT&T explains:Fiber customers who experience an outage of 20 minutes or moreWireless customers who experience an outage of 60 minutes or more (so long as the outage is caused by a single incident impacting 10 or more towers.In these situations, AT&T says that customers will automatically receive a bill credit equaling a full day of service.In the event of a network interruption, we will work diligently to restore service and make it right for fiber customers who experience 20 minutes or more and wireless customers who experience 60 minutes or more of a covered outage.1 Consumers will automatically receive a bill credit equaling a full day of service and well reach out to our small business customers with options to help make it right.Other aspects of the new AT&T Guarantee program:Clearer guidelines for deals on wireless and fiber service.Improved customer service: Speak to a friendly tech expert within 5 minutes or schedule a callback at a time that you choose.Learn more on the AT&T website.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Ads for sleazy AI services that allow users to generate realistic synthetic video clips of real people kissing are flooding social media the latest trend in the rise of easy-to-use generative AI tools blurring the lines of consent.Some of these many services advertise a tamer vision for their product, for example suggesting that users might use AI to create videos of their grandparents sharing a kiss. Most, though, immediately veer into dark territory, with advertisements and product webpages imploring users to leverage AI as a way to fabricate videos of themselves locking lips with an unwitting crush or former partner. The vibes are bad, like an ad on Instagram circulating on X-formerly-Twitter and shown below in which an app takes imagesof a girl with braces and an older man, and uses them to produce a video of the two wetly making out.In short, with the help of these apps, people can cheaply and easily generate deepfaked media depicting any two real subjects locked in intimate or even explicit scenarios. As for consent? It's not required.A proliferation of similar services are available via web browsers and mobile apps, available on the Android and iOS app stores, where the vast majority are listed as safe for teenagers. At least one a service called Fotorama that's listed as a "Kiss and Hug Video Generator" is rated safe for people aged four and older in the iOS store, and safe for "everyone" on Google Play.Some apps advertise the kissing feature as just one use case in a broader suite. Though a popular app titled Mova AI showcases its kissing function in YouTube clips and sponsored TikTok posts, for instance, it fails to mention the tool in any of its app store descriptions.But while some apps downplay the AI-poweredkissing, others are much more straightforward about the functionality and the very creepy ways that users might deploy such a feature.Take a service called YouCam, which claims in a company webpage that its "AI Kissing Video Generator" can be used to bring a user's "dream of sharing a kiss" with their "favorite celebrity" to life."The possibilities are endless!" the description continues.Another service, bluntly titled AIKiss.AI, brags on a webpage that its "advanced algorithms create realistic and captivating kiss videos that look incredibly natural.""No technical expertise required," it adds, "anyone can create beautiful AI kissing videos in minutes."On the same webpage, AIKiss.AI encourages users to use its tool to create "explicit content" that caters to "adult audiences"such as apologies in advance what it characterizes as "cum kissing videos." It then suggests that users might consider creating videos depicting the actress Scarlett Johansson. (Needless to say, it would take no great technological leap for these or similar apps to create even more explicit videos of people without consent.)Taken together, these AI kissing services sit in a seamy gray space between PG content and pornographic imagery, and come amid a broader reckoning around AI-generated intimate material and consent.Deepfaked pornography, particularly that of women in the public eye, has exploded in popularity as public-facing generative AI tools have become increasingly widespread. The same is true for AI-generated nude images, easily created by way of designated AI apps like the ever-alarming Nudify, which have led to a disturbing flurry of cases involving middle and high school students using AI to create nude imagery of underage classmates.Generative AI has also been used by adult predators to cook up grotesque child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, while watchdog groups like the Internet Watch Foundation have tracked a troubling rise of AI-generated CSAM across the web. And though these AI-fueled abuses have seen some legal and even criminal action, victims frequently find themselves in an uphill battle, with little in the way of effective or reliable recourse.Meanwhile, though they might be marketed as a low-stakes way to connect with a long-distance partner or fawn over a celebrity crush, AI kissing apps offer yet another AI-powered avenue for the creation and dissemination of nonconsensual intimate imagery of real people.After all, these apps are frequentlyadvertisingnonconsensual use cases, and misuses aren't exactly hard to imagine: consider grade school-aged students using the apps to generate intimate videos of unwitting classmates; an obsessed ex creating videos designed to sexually harass their former partner; an adult predator creating and sharing intimate or explicit videos involving children; or bad actors using the tools as yet another vehicle for generating deepfaked porn of celebrities and other public figures. The possibilities, unfortunately, are endless.We reached out to all AI kiss-generating services mentioned in this article, as well as several others, for comment. We didn't hear back.More on AI and consent:Russian Hackers Are Using Fake AI "Nudify" Sites to Steal DataShare This Article

It's costing tenants billions of dollars every year.Landlord LiAIsonIt turns out that many of the country's landlords are using the same artificial intelligence tool to jack up your rent.Packaged as part of the popular property management software RealPage, the AI is nominally intended to give rent price recommendations to landlords.But as we've seen elsewhere, the catch-all term of "AI" can be used to obfuscate what's really going on under the hood. According to a new report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and covered by Popular Information, the AI tool, called "AI Revenue Management," is being used to facilitate collusion between these proprietors, allowing them to inflate rental prices by a total of more than $3.8 billion every year.This, the CEA arguesin its report, and the Department of Justice alleges in its lawsuit against RealPage, is a form of "price coordination" which is illegal.Joint EffortAccording to the CEA report, nearly 1 in every 4 multifamily rental properties use a RealPage pricing algorithm.In some municipalities like Atlanta and Denver, that proportion is higher than 50 percent, where the price increase caused by landlords using the RealPage AI is as high as $181 per month.When competitors in a market explicitly agree to set a price for a type of good or service, that's price fixing. The practice is federally outlawed by the Sherman Act, because it's considered an anti-competitive move that leads to higher costs for consumers.The RealPages AI works as a price fixer for "landlords collectively," the CEA argues, because its algorithm "will recommend prices that are higher than the profit-maximizing price each landlord would set independently."In effect, the AI lets landlords act as a cartel without ever needing to directly communicate, thus making price-fixing difficult to prove.House Always WinsAs Popular Information notes, RealPages argued in response to the DOJ lawsuit that it can't be accused of facilitating price coordination because customers "always have 100 percent discretion to accept or reject software price recommendations."A separate class action suit against the software maker, however, presents evidence that RealPage and its landlord clients "have established a rigorous monitoring and compliance system to ensure cartel members adhere to RealPage [AI-optimized] pricing," as quoted by Popular Information.The CEA report concludes that the true cost of the AI-set rent prices is likely much higher than the $3.8 billion figure, because its calculations only accounted for the inflated costs by landlords that directly used RealPage's tool. Other landlords not part of the group using the AI recommendations could raise their prices in response to their competitors."Regardless, our estimate indicates that eliminating this cost would meaningfully decrease price mark-ups for rental housing across the country," the report reads.Share This Article

Matt Reeves isn't ruling out the possibility of Robert Pattinsons Batman joining the DC Universe.The studios co-chief James Gunn recently revealed that he has contemplated bringing Pattinsons Caped Crusader into his superhero universe and Reeves is open to the move as long as it makes sense.Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast at the Golden Globes, the 58-year-old filmmaker said: It really comes down to whether it makes sense ... There was a story I wanted to tell. The epic crime saga. It's been important to me to play that out and James and Peter (Safran) have been really great about that. They are letting us do that.What the future brings, I can't really tell you. I have no idea. My head is down right now on getting The Batman Part II shooting, which is the most important thing.Warner Bros.Warner Bros.loading...READ MORE: Every DCEU Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestPattinsons version of the hero currently exists outside the DC Universe but Gunn admits that he had talked about bringing him in.The 58-year-old director said: I've contemplated it, yeah. I contemplate everything. I talk about everything.The sequel to Reeves 2022 flick The Batman isn't scheduled for release until 2027 but Gunn defended the decision to delay the picture last month as it's fairly common to have lengthy gaps between big-budget blockbuster titles.He wrote on the social media platform Threads: To be fair, a 5 year gap or more is fairly common in sequels.7 years between Alien and Aliens. 14 years between Incredibles. 7 years between the first two Terminators. 13 years between Avatars. 36 years between Top Guns. And, of course, 6 years between Guardians Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.Gunn also explained that the picture had been delayed because a "full script" hadn't been completed. The 'Superman' filmmaker has a rule in place where no project at DC Studios can start production until a script is finished.He wrote: Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write.Once there is a finished script, there is around two years for pre-production, shooting and post-production on big films.Reeves recently revealed that he had hopes that audiences will be surprised by The Batman Part II, although he is reluctant to share too much information about the film.He told Deadline: Were doing something where the story continues from, but I hope that people will be surprised.Despite the flick's 2027 release date,Reeves has confirmed that the project will begin shooting this year.Get our free mobile appThe Worst Movies of 2024ScreenCrushs editor and critic picks the 12 worst films he saw in 2024.

Time zones: EST (UTC -5), CST (UTC -6), MST (UTC -7), PST (UTC -8)MANUAL is a digital personal development and mental wellness platform designed to inspire young men to become the best versions of themselves. Today, male students are far less likely to be enrolled, retained, and graduate from higher education institutions, and this is especially true for young men of color. Their mental health outcomes are rapidly worsening, with young men dying by suicide and overdose at alarming rates.MANUAL works with high schools, universities, and fraternities across the country including the University of Mississippi, Morgan State University, and MSU-Denver to solve this challenge, bringing high-quality men's success and mental health programming to tens of thousands of students. MANUAL has raised capital from Expanse Venture Partners, 12-48, the Inner Foundation, and angel investors from companies like Maven Clinic, McKinsey & Company, Eleanor Health, and more. MANUALs evidence-based approach has been proven to enroll young men who are not currently being reached by existing services, and users report significant levels of trust towards the service.Are you passionate about crafting efficient and scalable applications? Do you want to use your skills to help thousands of young men around the country? If you're enthusiastic about full stack Typescript, and love the thrill of a startup, wed love to talk to you!Who We're Looking For:Typescript EnthusiastsProblem SolversTeam PlayersLifelong LearnersWhat You Won't Need:A specific number of years of experience. Your ability to apply what you've learned to new challenges is what truly matters to us. We're not in a position to provide the support and mentorship a junior developer needs (ex. fresh out of college or dev bootcamp), so you should have experience shipping production code.A formal education in computer science. We recognize the value of diverse educational backgrounds and learning paths. Our head of engineering, for example, doesn't have a computer science degree.What Youll Do:Lead the development of our RedwoodJS backend, which provides APIs for our NextJS and React Native apps. Most of your time will be spent working on our APIs - adding new features, improving tests, optimizing performance, etc.Assist in the management of our Postgres database and backend infrastructure.Engage in user feedback sessions to directly learn from our users and adapt our solutions to better meet their needs.Be involved in the hiring process for future engineering team members, helping us grow our team with talented individuals.Play a pivotal role in defining our engineering processes and culture.Collaborate closely with our head of engineering and other team members on a variety of backend and frontend projects, contributing your unique skills and perspectives.Important DetailsJob Type: Full-time, remote work environment with occasional optional travel for team get-togethers.Compensation structure: We are considering engineers with a range of experience and skill for this role, and will make cash offers of $125k-$150k per year.Benefits: Fully covered (no employee contribution) Health, Dental, and Vision insurance. Unlimited PTO.Hiring ProcessYou submit your application, if we select you for an interview well reach out to schedule30 minute intro call with Karl Morand, our head of engineering. This call will be focused on getting to know you, your background, experience, and answering any questions you have about MANUAL or the role. We wont get into anything super technical (no live coding or anything like that). A list of some topics/questions will be provided to you before the interview - the goal is to see you at your best, not test your ability to remember anecdotes from your past under pressure.Take home project is the next step. You will have at least 5 days to complete the project. The goal of the project isnt to nitpick your code, but rather to give us a starting point to discuss how you approach solving problems with code.45 minute technical call with Karl Morand, our head of engineering. In this call well use your take home project as the basis of our discussion on how you approach solving problems. All candidates who complete the take home project will advance to this stage. This call will include a more detailed discussion of your technical experience and knowledge. Specific topics of interest will be provided to the candidate when the interview is scheduled. While this call is more technical in nature, there is still no live coding. Candidates who successfully complete this stage advance to30 minute teammate interview with 1-2 other members of the MANUAL team. Youll be working closely with everyone on our small team, so its important for you and us to feel confident that well make a great team. Youll receive information about the interviewers and topics when the call is scheduled. Candidates who successfully complete this stage advance toJob Offer! Related Jobs See more Back-End Programming jobs

Belgrades Milan Vapa Paper Mill to be transformed into museum celebrating the Serbian-American inventors legacyAtrium entranceSource: NorviskaGalleriesSource: NorviskaNorth facadeSource: Zaha Hadid ArchitectsTesla Coil RoomSource: Xuniverse1/4show captionZaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners of Serbia, has been selected as the winner of an anonymous design competition for the new Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.The project seeks to transform the historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill into a cultural destination, celebrating Teslas contributions to science and technology while preserving the buildings architectural heritage.The museums design takes inspiration from Teslas research into magnetic fields and wireless energy transfer, and incorporates elliptical curves radiating from the factorys chimney, a key feature of the site.A new circular opening in the western faade will serve as the main public entrance, leading to a triple-height central atrium dominated by the chimney.The museums interior will feature openings carved into the walls, creating interconnected voids that extend visitors views from the entrance through the atrium to the Tesla memorial at the eastern end of the site.Source: NorviskaAerial viewThe 13,400-square-metre museum will include permanent galleries showcasing Teslas historical artefacts, interactive displays, and immersive presentations, alongside temporary exhibition spaces for temporary exhibitions.Additional facilities include a caf, a multipurpose hall, and a rooftop restaurant with views of the Sava River.The museums surroundings will feature Nikola Tesla Square, a new public space designed with gardens and plazas inspired by electromagnetic fields. The square seeks to enhance accessibility and integrate the museum with the Belgrade Waterfront and the citys transport network.The paper mill, constructed in 1924 as the nations first modern factory, was decommissioned several decades ago and had been used as a storage facility before being abandoned. The Belgrade Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments has protected the building for its cultural importance, and its adaptive reuse is funded by Belgrade Waterfront.

Although it is understood Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) delivered an earlier concept, it is unclear whether the Danish heavyweight continues to be involved.The NEOM stadium is one of 11 proposed new-build venues for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, which footballs world governing body controversially awarded to Saudi Arabia last month. The country was the sole candidate in the running to host the tournament.Located in the Hidden Marina the initial 2.3km-long section of the Line overseen by Austrian practice Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA) the NEOM stadium would sit 350m above ground and be used for group stage matches and the quarter-finals, according to the Saudi World Cup bid.AdvertisementMore on this topicWe need to talk about Saudi ArabiaPopulous is behindat least four more of the tournaments stadiums: the planned 92,000-seat King Salman Stadium, which will host the final of the 2034 tournament, next to a new Foster + Partners' airport in Riyadh; the King Fahad Stadium, also in Riyadh; the under-construction Dammam Aramaco Stadium, which is due to feature games for the 2027 Asian Cup; and the Qiddiya stadium, which was unveiled in February last year as the first proposed 2034 World Cup venue.The concept for Populous's Dammam stadium was drawn up by Foster + Partners, which also worked with Populous on the Lusail stadium in Qatar, the venue for the final match of the 2022 World Cup.Other British names involved in the Saudi World Cup include Manchester-based AFL Architects. The practice said last month that it had been commissioned to design the 47,500-capacity King Abdullah Economic City Stadium in Jeddah on the Red Sea.Arup is understood to be working on the planned New Murabba Stadium,the AJ reported last August. The 46,000-seat arena, located north-west of central Riyadh, would host group and second-round games.Arup is also refurbishing the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, in Jeddah. The 58,400-seat venue would host quarter-final games in 2034. The 15-stadium tournament includes just four refurbished stadiums a decrease from earlier FIFA tournaments.AdvertisementLast summer, the AJ also reported on BIGs involvement with the Saudi World Cup but the practice has not responded to a request for comment on the NEOM stadium.Seven new stadiums were built for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, which was criticisedfor underplaying the tournaments environmental impact.Qatar also came under intense scrutiny over deaths and poor treatment of workers in the construction of stadiums for the tournament. A report by theGuardian in 2021 put the total number deaths of migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at 6,5000 far exceeding the three deaths admitted to by Qatar officials.Practices accepting work in Saudi Arabia continue to provoke debate. The country has come under scrutiny for its human- rights record, including its treatment of women, restriction of free speech, and treatment of the LGBTQ community and other minorities.In November, architect Duncan Baker-Brown wrote in the AJ that working on Saudi giga-projects such as NEOM was incompatible with being an ethical professional and being a member of the RIBA. The same month, Gensler's European headquarters in London, DMAA and Mott MacDonald were announced as the 'core' design team for the Line's first phase.The AJ understands that architects on common design elements on The Line also known as vertical neighbourhoods are due to be announced in early 2025.The Saudi 2034 bid said holding the tournament would be an opportunity to showcase the countrys commitment to environmental sustainability.Populous declined to comment.

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Table of Contents On Wednesday, you have not one, but two hilarious reasons to turn on your TV, as the casts of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Abbott Elementary will deliver their highly anticipated first crossover episode.Season 4, episode 9 of Abbott Elementary, titled Volunteers, will blend the Philadelphia-set sit-coms and be followed by a second crossover during Sunny's forthcoming 17th season. The initial episode will see Abbott's principal Ava announce "the school district is sending a group of volunteers to help out," per a synopsis, readying two tonally different comedic worlds to collide.It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Dennis, Dee, Charlie, Mac and Frank will all feature in the Abbott installment. If you want to catch what will surely be a chaotic episode of the ABC workplace comedy, here's how to tune in to Volunteers.When to watch the crossover episode on HuluSeason 4, episode 9 of Abbott Elementary -- the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover -- is set to air on ABC on Jan. 8 at 8:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT/7:30 p.m. CT, and is scheduled to streamJan. 9 on Hulu.Hulu starts at $10 per month, or $100 per year, for the ad-supported version. If you don't want to watch commercials, the ad-free version is $19 per month with no annual payment option. James Martin/CNET Looking for a deal on Hulu? Bundles ofHulu, Disney Plus and Maxor Hulu, Disney Plus and ESPN Plus offer savings over getting the services separately. You may also be able to score a Hulu free trial,student discountor get the streamer as a perk with a specific T-Mobile plan. See at Hulu How to watch ABC without cableAlive TV streaming servicethat includesABC in its channel lineupwill do the trick. Hulu Plus Live TV and YouTube TV are among the options -- both start at $83 per month -- and you can stream the Abbott Elementary episode with Sling Blue if you'rein a select city.

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