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When Apple launched its new iPad Pro devices earlier this month, the company said they were the thinnest gadgets it has ever produced. But are they structurally sound enough to resist a little accidental bending?

A reminder: Apple's new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro are both incredibly thin, with the 11-inch model measuring 0.21 inches, and the 13-inch model being even thinner at 0.20 inches.

Likely

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• The EU is investigating Meta over concerns its platforms are fueling addiction among minors.
• Regulators said they would also look into the company's age-verification tools. 
• It comes as Meta faces growing legal pressure in the US over the impact of its platforms on kids.

Meta is facing more questions over whether it's doing enough to protect kids

• Russia's President Vladimir Putin is meeting China's Xi Jinping in Beijing. 
• The countries formed a "no limits" partnership in the wake of Russia's Ukraine invasion. 
• But there are risks as well as rewards for China. 

China's

Meta is back in hot water for its methods (or lack thereof) for protecting children. The European Commission has launched formal proceedings to determine whether the owner of Facebook and Instagram has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by contributing to children's social media addiction and not ensuring they have high levels of safety and privacy.

The Commission's investigation will

• A former Facebook and Nike diversity manager was sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud.
• Barbara Furlow-Smiles admitted to stealing over $5 million from the companies.
• Attorneys said she used fraudulent vendors, fake invoices, and cash kickbacks.

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Meta’s Oversight Board has accepted its first case involving a post on Threads and it will allow the group to weigh in on the debate over the role of political content on Threads. The board, which started taking appeals from Threads users earlier this year, announced its first case involving Meta’s newest app.

The case stems from a post by a Japanese user who was replying to a screenshot of a news

• An airport worker fell out of an Airbus A320 in Indonesia.
• A video of the incident shows staff breaking safety rules by removing the airstairs with the door open.
• The airline, TransNusa, has reportedly opened an investigation into the incident. 

A video shows the frightening moment an airport worker fell out of an Airbus A320.

The man is

• Call center workers might not have to deal with angry customers for too much longer.
• SoftBank plans on using AI to make angry calls sound less aggressive.
• The Japanese firm is seeking to turn a customer's voice "into a calm conversational tone" with AI.

Complaints to call center workers are about to sound a lot

• Microsoft is offering relocation to hundreds of China-based employees.
• The offer has been made to machine learning and cloud workers, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• The report comes amid escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing over a range of issues.

Microsoft is reportedly asking up to 800 China-based employees if they'd consider leaving the country as tensions

The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Meta over concerns that it isn’t doing enough to safeguard the mental and physical health of children who use its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms.

The probe announced by

If we had to compile a list of our worst nightmares, having your old, long deleted nudes randomly show up on your phone would probably be near the top of the list. Unfortunately, that's exactly what's happening to some iPhone users who upgraded to the latest version of iOS, 17.5.

According to this Reddit thread (via MacRumors), some iPhone and iPad users are seeing old, permanently deleted photos