On Tuesday, the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the way the social networking giant handles scammers on its platforms violates Washington, DC’s consumer protection laws.While many online scams involve direct outreach to victims by scammers (who are often themselves human trafficking victims trapped in scam compounds), CFA’s lawsuit focuses on fraudulent advertising that CFA alleges Meta profited from and allowed to “proliferate on its platforms,” despite publicly promising that it takes cracking down on fraud and scams seriously.In its complaint, CFA points to ads found in Meta’s ads library that CFA claims are…
If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know today to save China from its unglorious past.In a new book titled Make…
It was a nice, somewhat rainy weekend here in the mountains. That’s always a blessing. It’s too dry here, and winter was far too warm. I’ll take all the rain we can get. It’s also a good excuse to stay inside sipping hot coffee and solving puzzles. Let’s solve today’s…
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman will head to trial this month in an Oakland, California, federal courtroom, where nine jurors will settle a years-long dispute between the cofounders of OpenAI over the group’s founding mission. While spats between Silicon Valley’s most influential billionaires are notable in their own rite,…
The northern lights may be visible overnight from up to 10 northern U.S. states on Saturday, April 25, into Sunday, April 26, according to a forecast by space weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It comes in the wake of double M1-class solar flares on the sun…
Complicated relationships, creepy cults and action-packed new takes on The Most Dangerous Game. Love and murder. Spinoffs that literally nobody asked for. Cartoons about cats and documentaries about apes. There’s a little bit of something for everyone this weekend when it comes to new TV shows and movies on all…
Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition.Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip…
April 23 update: this article, originally published on April 22 was updated on April 23 with further details of exactly what the update is about. Apple has released a new iPhone update, just two weeks after the last one. This release is designed to address a particular problem in Notification…
Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the story for you.That seems…
ToplineTesla beat Wall Street expectations in its first earnings report this year, following a recent decline in its core auto business as the company shifts its focus to self-driving taxis, humanoid robots and AI infrastructure. Key FactsTesla reported first-quarter revenue of $22.39 billion and $0.41 earnings per share, beating FactSet…
General Catalyst (GC) just published its first-ever quarterly investor letter, and the headline figure is not the $380 billion valuation Anthropic fetched in its Series G; it is the state of an entire asset class. CEO Hemant Taneja argues that software buyouts structured around terminal value, rather than cash flow,…
How do you file taxes on prediction market profits? It seems like the type of straightforward question any halfway decent bookkeeper should be able to answer. Right now, though, it’s a conundrum for tax experts across the country. “You have a vacuum of guidance,” says Patrick Camuso, an accountant who…
Since March, Israeli attacks on Beirut and the occupation of southern Lebanon have displaced over 1 million people. Families are sheltering with relatives, renting if they can, or sleeping in cars and out in the open, placing immense strain on already fragile infrastructure. Over 130,000 people have also crossed into…
This week, our hosts discuss why OpenAI and Elon Musk’s legal feud is heating up once again—and happening alongside SpaceX’s IPO filing. They also dive into how a Department of Justice lawyer misled a judge about how they’re handling voter data, and why the Artemis II’s launch captured all of…
San Francisco police arrested an individual early on Friday morning for allegedly attacking the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and making threats outside of the company’s headquarters, a spokesperson confirmed to WIRED. OpenAI’s corporate security team sent a note to employees about the incident on Friday.“At approximately 3:45am PT,…
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