A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
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OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator
The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.
Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
Leon Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth. In a post published on Wednesday, Google said it is giving itself until...
LOTR WTF? Late-Night TV Host Stephen Colbert Tapped to Co-Write New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film
2026 Big Shots Prep Nationals: Under the Radar Gems to Know!
Throughout an insane travel schedule, we were able to shoot down to Rock Hill, South Carolina, to check out the Big Shots Prep Nationals. A loaded event with teams from all over the country, Kevin Schneider and his staff assembled a group that was honestly too talented to truly evaluate during the sessions I attended....
Coded language in women’s basketball reinforces harmful stereotypes and undervalues the game’s physicality
One of the most underrated strategies in sports is when coaches or managers “work the refs.” The greats of their respective games aren’t just adept at X’s and O’s; they’re also mindful of how a few words — whether nice or nasty — can turn into a favorable whistle. It is certainly a tactic coaches...
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group, tracked under the name TeamPCP, first gained visibility in December, when researchers from security firm Flare observed it unleashing a worm that targeted cloud-hosted platforms...


