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CNET NewsDec 09, 2025
Australia Bans Social Media for Kids Under 16. Which Sites Are Blocked?
The new Australian law restricts some social media platforms, but other services and AI chatbots are exempt.

EngadgetDec 09, 2025
Pebble is making a weird little smart ring for recording thoughts
Pebble just announced the Index 01, a smart ring for recording thoughts. It's a little ring with a built-in microphone and that's about it. The Index 01 is almost anti-tech in its simplicity. There's no needless AI component shoehorned in, aside from speech-to-text. It's a ring with a microphone that you whisper ideas into and I want one.

Here's how it works. You get an idea while walking down the street, so you quietly whisper it into the ring. The ring sends the idea to a notes app or saves it for later review. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky calls this an "external memory" for the brain, but I call it a nice way to avoid having to dig the phone out of a pocket or bag just to utter something like "pizza, but for cats."

The ring doesn't record unless a button is pushed, so it won't be listening in on private conversations, and it doesn't require a paid subscription of any kind. It's on the smaller side, about the size of a wedding band, and is water-resistant.

The battery also lasts for "years" and never needs to be charged. The ring is designed to be worn at all times, so users develop the muscle memory of holding down the little button when they have something to share. See what I mean? I want one, and I've quite literally never worn a ring in my life.



CNET NewsDec 09, 2025
After Bringing Pebble Watches Back, the Next Thing's a Ring
Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky's next big product is a memory-recording ring that works with phones and Pebble watches. But here's the catch: It doesn't recharge, and you can't replace the battery, either.

Major GeeksDec 09, 2025
OpenCode 1.0.138
OpenCode is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs on your computer and helps you write code, fix bugs, and understand what your files are doing.... [License: Open Source | Requires: 11|10|Linux|macOS | Size: 30-50 MB ]

EngadgetDec 09, 2025
Study shows that Instacart was charging different amounts for the same items
A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for different users on the exact same items from the same store location.

The organizations partnered to enroll 437 shoppers in an experiment across four cities, where each shopper added the same items to their carts within Instacart from the exact same store. Almost 75 percent of grocery items were shown to shoppers at multiple price points, with as many as five different prices shown for the same item. The average difference between the highest and lowest price shown was 13 percent, while the highest delta on an individual item was a whopping 23 percent.

Engadget reached out to Instacart and received the following response. It reads in part: "Just as retailers have long tested prices in their physical stores to better understand consumer preferences, a subset of only 10 retail partners — ones that already apply markups — do the same online via Instacart. These limited, short-term, and randomized tests help retail partners learn what matters most to consumers and how to keep essential items affordable." An Instacart spokesperson added that this is not dynamic pricing (insofar as it is not based on supply and demand), that no personal demographic data is used in the process and that these experiments are random.

The bulk of the tests were conducted at Safeway and Target stores, which both yielded similar results. A Tar


CNET Most Popular ProductsDec 08, 2025
Australia's Bold Move: No Social Media Access For Those Under 16
Countries around the world will be watching to see how well the new ban works ... or doesn't.

Mac RumorsDec 08, 2025
How Apple is Helping Apps Comply With Australia's Social Media Ban for Kids
Australia's new social media law goes into effect on December 10, 2025, and ahead of that date, Apple is sharing information on developer tools that are designed to help social media apps adhere to the law.

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