Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as its president and vice chair, in charge of guiding overall strategy. In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump described the appointment as a "great choice" by Mark Zuckerberg. Here's more from [@AssociatedPress](
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Meta names former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman
Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice ch...
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Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts. CNBC reports the country's "Online Safety Amendment Act 2024 came into effect on Dec. 11, barring access to 10 major services including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat, and X."
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Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts
Meta highlighted that many Australian teens are circumventing its new social media ban by using alternative platforms such as Yope and Lemon8.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because not only is Crossy Road an homage to Frogger, it’s just as addictive. And maybe to avoid getting snatched by the eagle. Read more from [@TechRadar](
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Chicken versus traffic! My obsession with the world’s most addictive hopper
Homescreen Heroes: Crossy Road is an 8-bit endless hopper game that’s fun and free to play
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CES 2026 saw the announcement of many important developments in robotics, including the debut of Atlas, the humanoid from Boston Dynamics. Here are some of the most memorable ones that [@Techcrunch](
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If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a pee...
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Is Craigslist the last real place on the internet, apart from the open social web, of course? Here's Jennifer Swann's story for [@WIRED](
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“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet
People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.
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"Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing non-paying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualized deepfakes of people," [@AssociatedPress](
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Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to sexualized deepfakes
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now restricting image generation and editing to paying users. This change follows global backlash over the creation ...
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No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
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"More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists." [@AssociatedPress](
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Google adds new AI features to Gmail, turning it into a personal assistant
More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant ...
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At CES, auto and tech companies transform cars into proactive companions. From [@AssociatedPress](
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At CES, auto and tech companies transform cars into proactive companions
As CES opened Tuesday to the public, auto and tech companies like Nvidia and Gentex showed how AI technology can transform cars into proactive comp...
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Today’s lesson: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. A viral Reddit post about an unnamed food delivery company that delays customer orders takes all of the “driver benefit fee” was probably AI-generated. “Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it’s easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing,” Elissa Welle writes in her vetting of the post for [@theverge](
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That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
AI slop comes for Reddit.
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