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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that looks to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are interested in pushing products to users through seemingly legitimate accounts. In a blog post...

Thu Apr 25, 2024 02:03
A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. [credit: Polestar ] Polestar, the Volvo offshoot EV company, has made a smartphone....

Thu Apr 25, 2024 01:02
We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy

Enlarge / M82, the site of what's likely to be a giant flare from a magnetar. (credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team) Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events...

Thu Apr 25, 2024 01:02
Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in a five-month-long campaign that breaks into government networks around the world, researchers reported Wednesday. The attacks against Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliances firewalls...

Thu Apr 25, 2024 00:01
Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court trials, according to a Reuters report. The US Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, an eight-member panel responsible for drafting evidence-related...

Thu Apr 25, 2024 00:01
Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes

(credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups sued the Federal Trade Commission and FTC Chair Lina Khan today in an attempt to block a newly issued ban on noncompete clauses. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The US Chamber of Commerce...

Thu Apr 25, 2024 00:01

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