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"Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them," writes Ars Technica, citing a lengthy report from Reuters.
Reuters reports that Meta "for at least three years failed to identify and stop an avalanche of ads that exposed Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's billions of users to fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos, and the sale of banned medical products.
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Unlike what happened with 'Breaking Bad,' Gilligan wants 'Pluribus' viewers to make their own conclusions on its themes. Read more ›
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The impact of the massive AI demand for storage and memory is now hitting retail stores in Japan. Read more ›
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OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to expand a major CHIPS Act tax credit to support the build-out of AI infrastructure, including servers, data centers, and power systems. Read more ›
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Samsung teases the AM9C1 E1.A Detachable AutoSSD and PM9E1 M.2 22x42 SSDs that will be revealed at CES 2026. Read more ›
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The studio says everything it's put out for 'Mass Effect 5' thus far will lead to what awaits the next chapter in its sci-fi saga. Read more ›
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The retirement of the old domain is the next step in Elon Musk's rebranding of the social media platform. Read more ›
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From 'Prey' to 'Killer of Killers' and now 'Badlands,' Trachtenberg may be using 'Predator' to drive a point home. Read more ›
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Delivery giants UPS and FedEx said they had made the decision to ground the fleet of aircraft after advice from the aircraft manufacturer. Read more ›
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In a Friday ruling, the Supreme Court blocked an order requiring the Trump administration to provide food stamps during the government shutdown. Read more ›
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The best romantic comedies streaming on Netflix, including "Love at First Sight," "Wedding Season,"" "Emily in Paris," "Bridgerton," "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," and more. Both movies and TV shows. Streaming guide. Read more ›
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Just days after a new rating on the American Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) hinted that Silent Hill 2 Remake was finally on its way to Xbox, a page that briefly popped up on the Microsoft Store has all but confirmed it. Read more Read more ›
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I'm a single mom who took in my widowed mother. Living together saved us money, but it also tested my boundaries, patience, and sense of self. Read more ›
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"There's millions of people that are on the non-detained docket." Read more ›
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For the first time ever, the two 'Kill Bill' movies are finally one in December's four-hour combo film, 'The Whole Bloody Affair.' Read more ›
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As AI datacenters scoop up limited wafer supply, both DRAM and flash prices skyrocket. Read more ›
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An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to Linux through emulation with Vulkan. Read more ›
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Active development on Halo Infinite will end on the same day that Operation: Infinite kicks into gear: 18th November. Read more Read more ›
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E1 is a new speed boat race backed by A-list celebrities and athletes, with a focus on on sustainability. Read more ›
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"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware. "That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to." The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart... Read more ›
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The FBI has subpoenaed popular Canadian domain registrar Tucows, demanding information about the owner of archive[dot]today, a popular archiving site used to bypass paywalls and avoid sending traffic to original publishers. The subpoena states it relates to a federal criminal investigation but provides no details about the alleged crime. Archive.today posted the document on X the same day. The site, also known as archive.is and archive.ph, started in the early... Read more ›
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A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That's when he... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services,... Read more ›
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Palantir launched a fellowship that recruited high school graduates directly into full-time work, bypassing college entirely. The company received more than 500 applications and selected 22 for the inaugural class. The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Fellows then embedded in client teams working on live projects for hospitals, insurance companies, defense contractors, and government agencies. CEO Ale Read more ›
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"People are creating 'dumb homes,'" the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger "analog wellness" movement... The return to analog hobbies and spacesis about more than nostalgia for pre-internet times, researchers say. A home where "technology is always in the background,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own. Last month, the Department of Justice indicted Kevin Tyler Martin and another unnamed employee, who both worked as ransomware negotiators at DigitalMint, with three counts of computer hacking and extortion... Read more ›
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In a recent article published in the New York Times, author Casey Michael Henry argues that today's tech industry keeps borrowing dystopian sci-fi aesthetics and ideas -- often the parts that were meant as warnings -- and repackages them as exciting products without recognizing that they were originally cautionary tales to avoid. "The tech industry is delivering on some of the futuristic notions of late-20th-century science fiction," writes Henry. "Yet... Read more ›
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"It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists," writes MIT Technology Review. " Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing." New York... Read more ›
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AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and up to $200,000... Read more ›
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