South Korea’s copyright agency is recruiting 25 people to monitor foreign-language piracy sites for illegal copies of Korean movies, dramas, webtoons, and music. The work-from-home positions pay minimum wage, are open to applicants of any nationality, and list the ability to handle malware risks as a job requirement.
Källa: South Korea Seeks Multilingual Talent to Hunt Down K-Content Piracy * TorrentFreak
Last month, Spotify announced a new round of price increases for subscribers in the United States and other countries. As the price increases start to go into effect starting with February renewals, Apple Music is poking fun at Spotify’s drama on social media.
Apple Music is also offering a free three-month trial right now.
Källa: Apple Music pokes fun at latest Spotify price increase – 9to5Mac
A large-scale analysis of millions of LinkedIn profiles and unemployment data shows that job prospects in AI-exposed occupations started declining in early 2022, months before ChatGPT’s November release.
The public narrative around generative AI and jobs is simple: ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and since then, prospects have worsened for workers whose tasks could be handled by language models. A new study by researchers from several US universities challenges this timeline.
The research team, led by Morgan Frank from the University of Pittsburgh, analyzed three large datasets: monthly unemployment insurance data from the US Department of Labor, 10.6 million LinkedIn profiles, and 3 million university curricula. They found that labor market problems for AI-exposed professions began in early 2022, months before ChatGPT launched.
Källa: New study disrupts the narrative that ChatGPT’s launch triggered a job decline
Some of my earliest memories go back to the late 90s when the Game Boy Color launched. I remember being six or seven years old, walking into a store with my dad to pick up a Game Boy Color and a copy of Pokémon Blue. I spent countless hours playing that Game Boy, and looking back, it played a major role in sparking the tech interest I still carry today. Fast forward to 2026, and mobile gaming has evolved in ways we could not have imagined back then. Touchscreens are incredibly capable, but nothing truly replaces the tactility of real buttons, and most controllers are not portable enough to justify carrying everywhere. So when I saw just how tiny and lightweight the abxylute M4 Snap-On Mobile Controller was, I knew I had to test it for myself. Here is what you should know.
Källa: This tiny MagSafe controller brings real buttons to your iPhone – 9to5Mac
As a person born in the 90s, social media was once an unknown land for me, a place that felt genuine in the beginning. It still had dangers, but it seemed less risky, or maybe our parents’ rules were stricter.
I don’t want to go down the psychological path here, but I want to look at where we are headed with so much risk, especially on social media platforms.
A team of Apple researchers set out to understand what real users expect from AI agents, and how they’d rather interact with them. Here’s what they found.
Apple explores UX trends for the era of AI agents
In the study, titled Mapping the Design Space of User Experience for Computer Use Agents, a team of four Apple researchers says that while the market has been investing heavily in the development and evaluation of AI agents, some aspects of the user experience have been overlooked: how users might want to interact with them, and what these interfaces should look like.
Källa: Apple study looks into how people expect to interact with AI agents – 9to5Mac
