A Coinbase user called customer support—but the Google ad was fake and he lost a fortune Google banned crypto ads for years—in hindsight that may have been the right policy. Fortune · Aug 15, 2024
31 Truly Strange And Hilariously Cringe First Messages From The Universe Of Dating Apps Are strange pick-up lines on dating apps the new normal? Here are 31 of the weirdest examples users shared on Reddit. The post 31 Truly Strange And Hilariously Cringe First Messages From The Universe Of Dating Apps first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · Jun 17, 2024
Carta CEO says company is investigating customer allegations of self-dealing with confidential information One of the equity management startup’s customers has suggested Carta was using his company’s confidential data without his approval. Fortune · Jan 8, 2024
Meta closes nearly 9,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ foreign influence campaign Company says users targeted in Australia, UK, US and elsewhere by political spam network across more than 50 platforms The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jul 1, 2023
Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2023
Smart Home System = Home System That Amazon Can Mess With If It Doesn't Like What You Say? From a Medium post by Brandon Jackson, a Microsoft engineer: Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn't just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and… Reason · Jun 17, 2023
Raspberry Pi Pico W Gives Your Plant Emotions with Face Animations Penguin Pranav is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to give his plant emotions and facial expressions based on environmental factors. Tom’s Hardware · Jun 17, 2023
Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2023
Google released a .zip web domain and people can't decide if it's the phishing apocalypse or just as bad as any other dodgy link Nowadays .zip can denote a file or web page. That's confusing, at the very least, but also potentially downright dangerous. PC Gamer · May 18, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023 AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?
Reason · Apr 3, 2023 Plaintiff, Who Had Published an Article Describing Herself as Escort, Sues Newspaper for Calling Her an Escort Plaintiff "asserts that her published work and other accounts describing life as an escort were part of an effort to build a career in writing and were entirely fictional. As for the websites and other internet advertisements cited by defendants, she claims that they were produced for the purpose of…
The Conversation · Mar 19, 2023 The AI arms race highlights the urgent need for responsible innovation The recent frenzy over language processing tools such as ChatGPT has sent organizations scrambling to provide guidelines for responsible usage. The online publishing platform Medium, for example, has released a statement on AI-generated writing that promotes “transparency” and “disclosure.”
The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023 George Santos and the fascinating psychology of compulsive liars He seems to have lied about everything, from the straightforward to the utterly absurd. This week, he was charged in New York with fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements. Holly Baxter speaks to experts on lying — and reports on why we all become complicit…
Fortune · Dec 25, 2022 Mackenzie Scott wasn't the only one giving away her fortune in 2022 From Mackenzie Scott to her ex-husband Jeff Bezos, here are the people who have committed billions to charity in 2022
The Guardian - US · Dec 8, 2022 Canadian journalist’s memoir accused of depicting sexual assault as consensual Film-maker Zoe Greenberg says she raised concerns with Penguin Random House Canada over Leah McLaren’s book
The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2022 MacKenzie Scott donates another $2bn as ex Jeff Bezos complains it is ‘hard’ to give away money ‘I gave $1,990,800,000 to 343 organizations supporting the voices and opportunities of people from underserved communities,’ Scott wrote on Medium on Monday
Al Jazeera · Nov 12, 2022 ‘Weaponised app’: Is Egypt spying on COP27 delegates’ phones? Security analysts warn Egypt’s ‘highly intrusive’ app for Sharm el-Sheikh climate talks can monitor communications.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022 ‘It’s powerful’: how John Fetterman’s hoodie won the popular vote in Pennsylvania Even as detractors portrayed him as a ‘bum’, senator-elect’s clothing summed up beliefs, says sociologist
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022 Cop27 wifi in Egypt blocks human rights and key news websites Attendees say they are unable to visit Human Rights Watch and other sites needed during climate talks
The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022 Doomsday bunkers, Mars and 'The Mindset': the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.