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“Customize Your Stickers with WhatsApp’s New In-App Feature”

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WhatsApp announced today that it’s launching a new feature on iOS that lets users create, edit and share their own stickers. You can personalize stickers using WhatsApp’s suite of editing tools, including text, drawing and the ability to overlay other stickers. Once you send a custom sticker, it will automatically be saved in your sticker tray so you can use it again whenever you would like to. If you want to edit an existing sticker, you need to open the sticker tray and long press the sticker you want to edit. WhatsApp says the new sticker maker, which is already available on WhatsApp web, is rolling out on iOS 17+ over the coming days.

“Successful Moon Landing in Jeopardy: Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander Experiences Propulsion Issue”

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In a devastating series of updates earlier today, the Pittsburgh-based startup said a “failure within the propulsion system” is causing a critical loss of propellant. The propulsion system is a critical component of a spacecraft, but it’s especially important for this mission, which is taking an indirect path to the moon. NASA, likely sensing the difficulty of a moon landing, has issues awards to multiple companies under the program. Other awardees include Intuitive Machines, which is set to make its own lunar landing attempt next month, and Firefly Aerospace, which will conduct its first lunar mission later this year. A deputy administrator from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Joel Kearns, said in a statement after launch that “each success and setback are opportunities to learn and grow.

“Enhancing Legal Accessibility: An Interview with Charlie Hernandez from My Pocket Lawyer”

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Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Charlie Hernandez, the founder and CEO of My Pocket Lawyer, an online platform that is meant to democratize access to legal advice and guidance for those that might not be able to afford a lawyer. Hernandez talked about why he decided to forgo a traditional career in law and use his degree instead to tackle this problem. The hosts also touched on challenges that the startup might run into regarding gaining customer trust and their remaining confusion on how a product like this will make money. Connect with us:On Twitter On Instagram Via email: found@techcrunch.comOr check out one of our sister podcasts:

Safety Measures Strengthened: OpenAI Grants Board with Final Authority over Risky AI

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OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. In-production models are governed by a “safety systems” team; this is for, say, systematic abuses of ChatGPT that can be mitigated with API restrictions or tuning. Frontier models in development get the “preparedness” team, which tries to identify and quantify risks before the model is released. So, only medium and high risks are to be tolerated one way or the other. For that reason OpenAI is making a “cross-functional Safety Advisory Group” that will sit on top of the technical side, reviewing the boffins’ reports and making recommendations inclusive of a higher vantage.