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The influencer economy that Goldman Sachs projects will reach nearly half a trillion dollars by 2027 depends on a less-examined population: the influenced, millions of people who find themselves accumulating debt and clutter after years of exposure to what amounts to a 24/7 digital infomercial.
Antoinette Hocbo, a former marketing professional who knows the tricks brands use to chip away at willpower, bought a $199 Pilates program, an iPad, and an arsenal of makeup products after TikTok's algorithm served
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Paramount has launched a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, calling Netflix’s $83 billion arrangement to purchase the entertainment giant’s studios and streaming service “inferior.” The Paramount proposal, unlike Netflix’s, would also include the linear networks owned by WBD. Paramount says its deal offers a “superior alternative to the Netflix transaction,” citing […] Read more ›
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“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers. Read more ›
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A Slovenian security researcher has published an analysis of Sipeed’s NanoKVM that raises far-reaching concerns about the €30-€60 remote management device. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the US would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chips to China. Read more ›
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ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron claims that the removal is a suppression of free speech Read more ›
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The late-night host has signed a one-year extension to stay on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" through May 2027. Read more ›
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According to a statement from the Public Interest Research Group, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 has removed language that would have granted the US military the right to repair its own equipment rather than requiring it to use official defense contractors for maintenance. This bill is still being considered by Congress, but it is uncertain whether the right to repair language is likely to be re-introduced... Read more ›
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 has launched and landed a record 32 times following a successful mission on Monday night. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster — listed as B1067 — lifted off at 5:26 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shortly after deploying 29 Starlink internet satellites to ... Read more ›
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Netflix's bid for Warner Bros. won, but Paramount isn't giving up. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos isn't David Ellison, but he might also be on Trump's good side. Read more ›
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Katsuhiro Harada, has announced his departure from Bandai Namco having worked on the Tekken series for 30 years. Read more Read more ›
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Paramount's Larry and David Ellison are making a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Three of their partners are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. Read more ›
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iPhone users in Japan are now able to use Apple's Messages via satellite feature, Apple said today. Messages via satellite works on the iPhone 14 or later and the Apple Watch Ultra 3, allowing users who have no cellular or Wi-Fi connection to use satellite connectivity for messaging. When attempting to send a message with no cellular or Wi-Fi connection, iPhone users in Japan will see a message that prompts... Read more ›
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The Trump administration will allow Nvidia to resume selling H200 chips to China, but only if the U.S. government takes a 25% cut. Axios reports: Trump said on Truth Social that he'll allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips -- the generation of chips before its current, more-advanced Blackwell lineup -- to China, with the U.S. government pocketing a quarter of the revenue. He said he would apply "the same approach... Read more ›
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A coalition of 350 environmental nonprofits wants a moratorium on data center growth, pointing to the ways it is hurting affordability. Read more ›
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Trump said that AI would be "destroyed in its infancy" if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of regulations. Read more ›
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Кажется как будто сто лет я не писал ничего на Хабр про свое любимое старое железо (последний раз это была хабра-ода любимому компаньону). Но сейчас, провозившись несколько недель с еще одним компаньоном (поменьше первого, но не менее горячо любимым) я решил написать и о нем. О Thinkpad X220В принципе, все сказанное по отношению к данному ноутбуку запросто масштабируется на близкородственные ноутбуки серий X и T. Заходите под кат, если вас... Read more ›
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Tesla announced several new features for its cars in its 2025 Holiday Update today. Read more ›
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Ellisons approach was rebuffed over concerns about financial backing from China and Middle East sovereign funds Read more ›
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A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target." But "There are no live tests for ads" on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said "any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads." Engadget reports The OpenAI exec's explanation comes after another post from former xAI employee Benjamin De Kraker on X that has gained... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A few years ago, Paul Wieland, a 44-year-old information technology professional living in New York's Adirondack Mountains, was wrapping up a home renovation when he ran into a hiccup. He wanted to be able to control his new garage door with his smartphone. But the options available, including a product called MyQ, required connecting to a company's internet servers.... Read more ›
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"Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway," reads the headline at Futurism: As Daily Dot reports, a New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. "She just broke my Meta glasses," said the TikTok user, who goes by eth8n, in a video that has since garnered millions of views. "You're going to be famous on the internet!" he shouted... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the Los Angeles Times: Tattoo ink doesn't just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines. Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds recently defended Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death during a video with Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, where the two built a PC together. It's FOSS reports: In that video, Sebastian discussed Torvalds' fondness for ECC (Error Correction Code). I am using their last name because Linus will be confused with Linus. This is where Torvalds says this: "I am convinced that all the jokes about how... Read more ›
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Friday six European Union countries "asked the European Commission to water down an effective ban on the sale of internal combustion engine cars slated for 2035," reports Reuters The countries have asked the EU Commission to allow the sale of hybrid cars or vehicles powered by other, existing or future, technologies "that could contribute to the goal of reducing emissions" beyond 2035, a joint letter seen by Reuters showed on... Read more ›
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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself "a highly creative hypochondriac" — who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters. He discusses the pros and cons of its "diffusion-weighted imaging" technology combined with the pattern recognition of AI, which theoretically "has the potential to save our lives by revealing budding cancers, silent aneurysms and other hidden would-be killers before they become... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model explains how it carried out a task and (most of the time) owns up to any bad behavior. Figuring out why large language models do... Read more ›
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sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the U.S., despite concerns that they're too small and slow to be driven safely... Read more ›
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Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers. "The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage," Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer at Micron Technology, said in a statement. "Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve... Read more ›
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