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Fake followers? Fake likes? The FTC is done playing around. I’ll tell you why the crackdown could mean big fines — or worse — for influencers and brands pulling these tricks.
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Hey, where do you live? Can I listen to what you say through your microphone? What about watching through your webcam? Send me all your contacts. Oh, and I’d like to send notifications anytime I feel like it and also watch what websites you visit and what you do there.
AI madness: Elon Musk’s updated Grok image generator for X Premium and Premium+ subscribers just dropped, and it’s a wild one. Unlike other AI tools, this one creates uncensored images of real people in real locations doing some seriously weird things … like this absurd AI pic of Trump and Harris kissing.
On everyone’s mind with two astronauts stuck in space. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were expecting an eight-day trip but are stuck on the ISS for six months. Technically, it’s possible … but there’s zero privacy.
📸 Shutter up! For real? The latest Apple leak shows the iPhone 16 has a dual vertical-stacked camera. Looks a lot like the camera from the iPhone X. The LED flash is on the side, no longer in the main camera bump. Rumored colors? Blue, teal, pink, black and white. I so want a pink iPhone!
How long Microsoft’s ultra-durable glass plates can store data. A small sheet can hold terabytes — we’re talking enough music to play for 13 years. Maybe this is what we should use for time capsules. It’s like a Superman material!
Don’t throw your Bluetooth speaker in a lake; it’ll sync: Sonos rolled out a screwed-up app in May that’s missing basic features, and now speakers are turning off intermittently. They’re working on a fix that’ll cost a cool $20 million or more, but there’s no timeline yet. I’m sure it doesn’t help that they just laid off 100 people yesterday …
🚫 Ad crackdown: Google Chrome is tightening its grip on ad blockers, and the mega-popular uBlock Origin is getting the boot. New browser extension rules will automatically disable the ad blocker relied on by over 30 million Chrome users in an upcoming update. Heads-up if you have it: An updated version, uBlock Origin Lite, is already available.
Zooming away from that one: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his claim that Google is losing the AI race because of remote work. He originally said their policies of going home early and working from home had taken priority over winning. Now? “I regret my error.” Ahem, bet he heard from the legal team.
Say a quick prayer for this family: A Pennsylvania father helped the FBI track down the scammers responsible for his son’s suicide. Nigerian fraudsters posed as a woman online, got the boy to send nude photos and then demanded $1,000. Just three minutes after he told them he didn’t have the money, he took his own life. His dad later found the email and phone number linking the criminals to the crime.
When our bodies go through dramatic aging. Researchers tracked the molecules and microbes of 108 people over seven years. Most didn’t age gradually but did so in big bursts in their mid-40s and early 60s. Yup, age is an issue of mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
