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• Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans

  11-02-2026 10:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Discord has moved to calm a user backlash over its upcoming age verification mandate by clarifying that the "vast majority" of people will never be asked to confirm their age through a face scan or government ID.
  The platform said it will instead rely on an internal "age prediction" model that draws on account information, device and activity data, and behavioral patterns across its communities to estimate whether someone is an adult. Users whose age the model cannot confidently determine will s
  
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• The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most

  11-02-2026 07:00 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn't that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. That's the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some white-collar jobs will disappear. But for most other roles, the argument goes, AI is a force multiplier. You become a more capable, more indispensable lawyer, consultant, writer, coder, financi
  
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• Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable

  11-02-2026 04:45 via news.slashdot.org
  Iceland in October classified the potential collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation -- the ocean current system that ferries warm water northward from the tropics and essentially functions as the country's central heating -- as a national security risk, a designation that amounts to a formal reckoning with the possibility that climate change could render the island nation uninhabitable.
  Several recent studies have found the AMOC far more vulnerable to breakdown than scientist
  
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• ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks

  11-02-2026 02:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  hackingbear writes: China's Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator which handles up to four types of input at once: images, videos, audio, and text. Users can combine up to nine images, three videos, and three audio files, up to a total of twelve files. Generated videos run between 4 and 15 [or 60] seconds long and automatically come with sound effects or music.
  Its performance is unfortunately so good that it has forced the firm to block its facial-to-voice feature after the
  
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