The company also failed to notify users when apps misused their data, only flagging two of 2,000 unique apps associated with data misuse, Mathew said. Following its investigation, Meta’s “decision…
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Arc browser is shutting down
The Browser Company plans to “sunset” its Arc browser on December 22nd, according to a post on the Arc website. The company moved on to developing its AI-focused Dia browser…
404 Not Found | The Verge
Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence. CJ Moses, Amazon chief information…
US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry
Mistrust Stabell Benn and colleagues appear impervious to this point. In a LinkedIn post Wednesday, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Bandim Health researcher involved in the trial, blamed the backlash on the…
Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years…
Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
“So we have a lake and we have a gulf, now we need a river and we need an ocean. So I was thinking of the Hudson river, then I…
This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display
VBoy Color comes with built-in color packs for 15 different games, which actually represents a significant chunk of the Virtual Boy’s limited official library. Tinkerers can edit those packs manually…
Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability
Amazon has warned that vulnerabilities in a programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are being “broadly exploited” as governments and companies rush to secure…
Apple’s Magic Keyboards for iPad are about half off, with a small catch
You can outfit your iPad Air or iPad Pro with one of Apple’s slick Magic Keyboards for considerably less than the accessory usually costs at Woot. I won’t bury the…
PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt…