Month: March 2025
WhatsApp just made its AI impossible to avoid – but at least you can turn it off
Meta rushed to embed its Meta AI assistant into all of its properties, including WhatsApp. Now, it seems like the tech giant is extending the strategy with a dedicated widget, as first discovered byWABetaInfo. This comes after WhatsApp expanded Meta AI from a floating action button to a search bar…
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Jim Jordan subpoena pushes YouTube to restore ‘free speech’ like Meta
Meta may have caved on their content moderation policies for the sake of “free speech”, but there’s a world of other Big Tech companies out there – and more social media platforms for conservatives to de-censor. On Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet, the parent company of Google, demanding documents…
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Cybercriminals used vendor backdoor to steal almost $600,000 of Taylor Swift tickets
Two cybercriminals have stolen over $600,000 worth of tickets The tickets were primarily Taylor Swift concert tickets The criminals used a backdoor into the StubHub systems to redirect the tickets A pair of cybercriminals have been arrested and charged after allegedly stealing over 900 concert tickets, raking in over $635,000…
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A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. But Reddit does appear to be flagging comments that mention “Luigi” in some cases, even those unrelated to Mangione — just not in the way that it first appeared to be. The…
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I compared GPT-4.5 to Gemini 2.0 Flash and the results surprised me
The release of GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT naturally leads to questions about how the model compares to its many rivals. After comparing it to GPT-4o and getting somewhat ambiguous results as to which model is preferable, I decided to go for a more direct competitor, Google Gemini, specifically the most recent…
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Inside the high-wire business of MrBeast
The biggest YouTuber in the world is looking beyond videos to build a multibillion-dollar empire. For the last several months, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries, at more than $5 billion.…
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