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  • Apple will reportedly offer higher trade-in credit for old iPhones for the next two weeks
    It might be a good time to finally upgrade your iPhone if you’ve been hanging onto an older model — according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will be offering a little more than usual for some trade-ins starting next week in the US and Canada. The company itself hasn’t said anything about the promotion, but […]
    Cheyenne MacDonald
  • Yuck: Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models
    Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making matters worse, you’ll have to ask your organization’s Slack admin (human resources, IT, etc.) to email the company to ask it to stop. (You can’t do it […]
    Will Shanklin