The state’s Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the suit in Providence Superior Court, accusing Meta of making billions in profits from scam ads, while simultaneously telling users it was working hard to protect them. The suit cites reporting on leaked Meta documents from Reuters that said: > … it was earning far more from high-risk scam ads than it expected to pay in fines for allowing them. > According to those documents, Meta displays around 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads to users every day, and earned roughly 10% of its 2024 revenue from fraudulent e-commerce, dubious health products and other banned marketing.

#rhode-island #meta #attorney

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Did Valve just confirm Half-Life 3 / HLX is real?

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Did Valve just confirm Half-Life 3 / HLX is real?

I feel like this is not how we would learn about such a thing — maybe he meant to say “Half-Life Alyx” — but you never know. Last year, Tyler McVicker (below) suggested the entire game was already playable end-to-end. Sounds like he’ll have extra scuttlebutt to share soon! [Media: https://twitter.com/Tyler_McV/status/2113313815110770690]

#hlx #half #alyx

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3w ago

Arc browser is shutting down

The browser will stop working on December 22nd.

#arc #browser #dia

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Larry and David Ellison got $1 billion from Elon Musk for their Warner Bros. takeover.

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Larry and David Ellison got $1 billion from Elon Musk for their Warner Bros. takeover.

Semafor reports that, along with other investors like board member Laurene Powell Jobs, “Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing a much needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. Sound familiar? [Link: Exclusive: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance | https://www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2026/elon-musk-makes-1-billion-investment-in-ellisons-skydance | Semafor]

#elon-musk #warner-bros #skydance

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The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch

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3w ago

The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch

The bugs left sites across the web scrambling to apply a fix.

#php #amazon

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3w ago

Bluesky now lets you spotlight links on your profile.

With the new profile links feature, you can make buttons for links that sit above your posts. Links to payment platforms will be green. Here’s what a couple of the buttons look like on my profile. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-9.40.53-AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

#bluesky #profile #buttons

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3w ago

Google’s AI overview led some people to think they were donating to James Talarico when they weren’t.

Instead, their money went to a political action committee that funneled the money to the reelection campaign of Colorado’s Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper. According to The Atlantic: > The mix-up wasn’t all AI’s fault. The link led to a misleading donation page that carried Talarico’s name and picture, and specified only at the bottom that the money would go to Hickenlooper. But Google’s AI tool evidently didn’t read the fine print. And perhaps no one would have clicked on it had Google not highlighted the page in an authoritative-sounding AI response.

#google #hickenlooper #talarico

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Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

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Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

‘There’s no humanity behind it.‘

#wildwood #laika

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3w ago

AI agents are causing massive headaches for banks.

According to Axios, banks have detected AI agents accessing customer accounts and taking actions, sometimes without clear authorization or instruction. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have started to restrict or block some third-party access because of it. But more concerning, it seems the banks just don’t know what AI agents are doing or why: > One bank executive told Axios they struggle to differentiate between agents, as well as whether an agent has been authorized by a user or has gone rogue and gained access to a customer account.

#axios #citi #usa

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