When billionaire Dutch TV producer John de Mol sued Facebook in 2019 over its alleged failure to stop scammers from using his image in deceptive ads, the social media company sent Rob Leathern to Amsterdam to meet with Del Mol’s team and to speak with the media.“The people who push these kinds of ads are persistent, they are well funded, and they are constantly evolving their deceptive tactics to get around our systems,” Leathern told Reuters at the time.During his four years at the company now known as Meta, Leathern was in many ways the public face of its effort…
Updated November 9 with further warnings from Google regarding the use of AI by attackers, following the latest Google security advisory, which included scam and fraud alerts for Gmail and users of other Google services. Google is a prime target for all types of threat actors. From a recently reported…
The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, and they expect that number to keep rising in 2026. The biggest spender last quarter was Microsoft, which put nearly $35…
The new Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro handsets are pushing Google’s view of a modern AI-powered smartphone with its flagship devices. Still, for those who are happy to be one step behind the bleeding edge of the artificial intelligence revolution, there is another option in the Pixel 9a. The…
Google recently claimed that the iPhone was less safe than an Android smartphone, which can be filed under Mandy Rice-Davies Applies, or MRDA for short. Some Apple aficionados, not me, I should hasten to add, were probably laughing when Google then confirmed a bunch of scams facing their users. Such…
TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not…
This is an unusual kind of leak, one given by NetEase itself, which has previewed what appear to be the next pair of Marvel Rivals heroes, Gambit and Rogue.Sharp-eyed fan and ex-leaker Miller noticed that very, very faintly in the background of the last batch of Marvel Rivals patch notes,…
“If you had to point to one reason [crypto prediction markets] are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.”Even before the arrival of…
During their last quarterly investors webinar both Seagate Technology and Western Digital focused up their exabytes shipped hard disk drive storage capacity and their revenue and profits. However, they did not provide information that they have done in past quarters that would give investors important operational information such as the…
While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than fiscal…
Coca-Cola dropped a new batch of AI-produced ads, with a list of caveats a mile long. The beverage giant received pushback for its AI ads last year and took great pains to say that 100 people worked on the new AI ads, a number that they claim is on par…
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS),…
Before today’s Quordle hints and answers, here’s what you missed on Monday:Hey, folks! Hints and the answers for today’s Quordle words are just ahead.How To Play QuordleFor any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine…
Note: Make sure to complete today’s NYT Connections before reading further! We’ll be getting into spoilers for today’s game pretty quickly. If you need some help to complete the grid, you can find my NYT Connections hints and answers column for today on my author page (I’ll update this with…
The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
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