[Music] these are the daily take headlines for Tuesday September 3rd 2024 I'm Rob Dunwood ABC ESPN and other Disney owned channels were pulled from Direct TV's lineup on Sunday after the companies failed to negotiate a new distribution deal the blackout started Midway through ESPN's broadcast of the US Open tennis tournament and just ahead of the NFL season opener this coming weekend both companies blame each other for being unable to develop a new deal Direct TV says Disney is chasing maximum profits at the expense of consumers Disney says it's open to offering Direct TV flexibility in terms extended to other Distributors authorities in South Korea have launched an investigation Monday into telegram to determine if the messaging app abets online sex crimes officials in South Korea last week pledged a Crackdown on sexually exploitative deep fake crimes coinciding with a French investigation in the paval durov telegram's founder and CEO as authorities their probe organized crime on the platform South Korea is the country most targeted by Deep fake pornography police say the number of deep fake sex crimes cases they have taken on so far this year is surged to 297 compared to 156 for all of 2021 when data was first corelated most victims and perpetrators of these crimes are teenagers the popular design software canva is set to increase prices by over 300% for some users next year following the company's aggressive roll out of generative AI features in the US some canva teams users are reporting subscription increases from $120 per year for up to five users to an eye watering $500 per year a 40% discount will bring that price down to $300 for the first 12 months canvas says that the increase is Justified due to expanded product experience and value that generative AI tools have added to the platform the micro blogging platform Blue Sky seems to be benefiting from the ban of X in Brazil seeing all-time highs for activity in the country with more than 500,000 new users joining in the previous two days blue sky is the number one free iPhone app on the app store in Brazil ranking it ahead of metas threads at number two according to a Nik report all iPhone models sold in 2025 and later will use OLED displays Apple first used OLED panels in the iPhone x unveiled in 2017 and is since switched to oleds for premium iPhone models the iPhone SE was the last hold out still using LCD technology but the upcoming iPhone SE 4 will get the same higher resolution OLED panel treatment as the rest of the iPhone lineup this fall the social media platform X has rolled out a long awaited feature update to the platform the ability to edit DM messages over the weekend an ex engineer posted to the official ATX account save yourself from your own bad decisions or typos or both DM edits are here you're welcome to use the feature open any direct message Chat from your xios app long press on any message that you sent or tap the 3 dot menu beside the message select the edit message option to modify the sent message Reuters is reporting that a China back social media influence operation is impersonating us voters denigrating us politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the November 5th presidential election in the United States new research by intelligence company Graphica showed the campaign is part of a known Chinese State linked effort analysts have dubbed spam flage or Dragon Bridge which pushes a mixture of spam and targeted propaganda onto the internet spamf flage has been active on the internet since at least 2017 but has stepped up its activities as the election approaches becoming more aggressive in its efforts to infiltrate and sway us political conversations according to Jack stubs manager of graph's research team and finally a review of 28 years of research into the potential health effects of radio wave exposure has shown mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer there has been speculation for decades that the non-ionizing r radiation emitted from cell phones while held near the head could cause brain tumors a systematic review of over 5,000 studies published between 1994 and 2022 commissioned by the World Health Organization to look closely at the possible health effects associated with exposure to radio waves provides the strongest evidence that the radio waves from Wireless Technologies are not a hazard to human health for more discussion of the tech news of the day subscribe to daily technew show.com and if you enjoy the show remember to tell a friend and check us out thanks for listening we'll talk to you next time