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Jury Decides Meta Stole Data from Users of Period-Tracking App. What to Do If You're Worried

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 09:01:00

A California jury ruled Wednesday that Meta broke state privacy laws by collecting data from the popular period-tracking app Flo, including private health data and pregnancy goals. The case claimed that, among other actions, Meta used the data to create targeted advertising content. As Meta claims it will fight the verdict, the court continues to decide specific financial damages -- and the plaintiffs have asked for billions. A representative for Meta did not immediately respond to a request fo

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Meta introduces new tools to help identify scam messages on WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-10 16:46:31

It seems scarcely a week goes by now without receiving at least one job scam message on either iMessage or WhatsApp. Meta has now introduced two new tools to help you identify scams, whether they arrive as individual messages or as posts to group chats … Scams are big business Scamming is big business these days, and it’s common for messages to originate from organized criminal gangs using huge banks of smartphones to send hundreds of thousands of messages per day. Meta has teams of people t

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Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:27:27

Two weeks ago, I had what I can only describe as a punch-to-the-stomach moment (which luckily doesn’t happen very often). The AirGradient ONE - our monitor that was recognized in one of the world’s most rigorous scientific evaluations - suddenly became “Not Recommended” by WIRED magazine in their The Best Indoor Air Quality Monitors review. Yes, this is the same monitor that got two awards from the AirLab micro sensor challenge , one of the most rigorous sensor testing programs, beating more th

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WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-10 16:45:06

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says The crackdown targets an increasingly common tactic in which criminals hijack WhatsApp accounts or add users to group chats promoting fake investment schemes and other scams. Meta made the announcement as WhatsApp rolled out new anti-scam measures to alert users to potential fraudulent activity, such as a user being added to a group chat by someone not in their contacts list. Many were tied to scam centres run by organised crimina

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Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-11 20:50:49

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously difficult to replicate, and researchers haven’t been able to fully tap into their mathematical potential. That may no longer be a problem, thanks to a new tool. On Monday, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announced “Meschers,” software capable of visuali

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Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 20:05:23

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state's wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasona

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Ray-Ban Meta stealth stickers go viral but fail to beat safeguards

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 00:08:51

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A TikTok seller is promoting vinyl “Ghost Dots” that claim to block the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Meta’s glasses disable photo and video recording when the light is blocked, and comments suggest the stickers don’t work. TikTok briefly removed the product, but it’s already back on sale. Anyone talking to a Ray-Ban Meta wearer probably wants to know if they’re being recorded, which is why the tech giant added a recording light to it

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The Age of Bronze and Steel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 12:18:24

The age of bronze and steel Here's a story I heard last night about 3D printing. (I'm not in the 3D-printing scene. I know people who are, though. And it's an interesting story, what the hell. If I can blog about dirty sea shanties, I can blog about the additive manufacturing industry.) A couple of months ago I retwooted this message about the end of a particular 3D-printed-metal process: Binder jetted steel with bronze infiltration is no more: the last source has discontinued the technology

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The Future Beyond Meta Quest and Vision Pro Is Coming in Glasses Form. What Will VR Look Like Then?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 00:00:00

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently declared that the gadget of the future is AI-infused glasses. Zuckerberg and Meta have been interested in these types of peripherals for years, but the focus has clearly been shifting lately from VR on our faces to glasses on our faces. Meta's not alone here. Apple sees a future in AR. Google does too. So does Samsung. The list of players goes on and on. As VR has shifted to mixed reality, and smart glasses promise augmented reality features to come, and AI evo

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-13 00:01:02

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of collecting private health data, like their period dates and fertility goals, via Flo’s app without permission, therefore violating Cali

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Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:33:21

Clojure Civitas Clojure Civitas makes it easy for you to publish Clojure ideas and explorations without the overhead of setting up a new project, blog, or repo. Whether you're sketching out a quick experiment or writing a deeper post, just fork this repo, create a namespace, write, commit and submit a pull request. This is your shared scratch space. Think. Code. Share. ⚡ No setup – Clone this repo, make a new namespace, start coding. ✍️ Write as you code – Capture notes, results, and ideas a

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The Best Open Earbuds You Can Buy Aren’t Actually Earbuds at All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-14 05:02:00

Back in my day, the name of the game when it came to wireless audio was noise cancellation. That’s to say, how much noise can your wireless earbuds possibly block? And sure, active noise-cancellation (ANC) wireless earbuds are probably never going to fall out of vogue entirely, but in recent years, audio companies have recognized that it is, in fact, nice to sometimes be aware of your surroundings. Thus, a market for open earbuds was created. If you’re not familiar with “open earbuds,” as they’

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How to Watch One of the Most Dazzling Meteor Showers of the Year

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-15 05:09:36

Skywatchers are in for a treat: The Perseid meteor shower—one of the brightest and most active of the year—is about to hit its peak, according to the American Meteor Society. The Perseids are an annual meteor shower that started in July, but astronomers expect the light show to be at its best between the evening hours of August 12 through to August 13. Famous for its typically high volume of swift, bright meteors, these burning space rocks leave long streaks of colorful light across the night s

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AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to build on their own terms

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-15 08:03:00

Editor's take: As Big Tech and industry leaders dig ever deeper into their war chests to recruit AI talent, a profound question is emerging: Can money alone win the battle for the minds building tomorrow's most powerful technologies? Recent events suggest that, for a growing number of engineers and researchers, the answer is increasingly, and resoundingly, no. While not in the majority, many engineers are choosing to pass up unprecedented offers in favor of staying loyal to their mission, value

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VR Is in a Really Bad Place Right Now and Smart Glasses Are to Blame

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-15 10:50:44

Remember VR? It’s that thing where you put on a headset and… You remember VR, right? If you don’t remember VR, you couldn’t be blamed, because things have taken a turn since way back in 2023, and right now, VR seems to be on the back burner, cold, with the heat turned off, while its sister tech, XR/AR is front and center, getting all of chef’s Michelin-starred attention. That’s not just a feeling, either; there are numbers to bear that trend out. Year over year, Meta said last week that Meta Re

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AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to stay loyal to their mission

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-15 20:03:00

Editor's take: As industry leaders dig ever deeper into their war chests to recruit AI talent, a profound question is emerging: Can money alone win the battle for the minds building tomorrow's most powerful technologies? Recent events suggest that, for a growing number of engineers and researchers, the answer is increasingly, and resoundingly, no. While not in the majority, many engineers are choosing to pass up unprecedented offers in favor of staying loyal to their mission, values, and the ch

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A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet

wired.com Marta Abbà 2025-12-16 04:30:00

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, known by it’s Italian initialism CNSAS, relied on AI to find the body of a person missing in Italy's Piedmont region on the north face of Monviso—the highest peak in the Co

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Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:45:30

Once upon a time, in their startling report titled "Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains," ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown "surveillance society," where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction. "The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell," they wrote. That was in

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Zuckerberg Says Meta Is Now Seeing Signs of Advanced AI Improving Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:30:31

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making some very grandiose statements amid his ludicrously expensive quest to gain a lead in the AI industry. It's easy to get caught up in the human drama of his talent hunt. But in the very first lines of a new public letter about his so-called Superintelligence Lab, the tech founder made a claim that's either a staight-up fib, a very generous reading of a situation, or a clue that he's closer to enacting profound change in the world than almost anyone realizes. S

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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

news.ycombinator.com Peng 2025-12-11 15:20:03

The investigation was carried out during TS42 cruise between 7 July and 18 August 2024 by RV Tan Suo Yi Hao with the full-ocean-depth human-occupied vehicle Fendouzhe, which was fitted with hydraulically powered manipulators on two swing arms. Under the guidance of operators in the human-occupied vehicle, the arms efficiently acquired the samples and stored them safely in a biological box and a geological box of the vehicle. Processing of benthic fauna and sea floor video footage Upon retrieva

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Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-16 00:00:27

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all reported quarterly earnings this week, and there was a common thread tying them together: a boom in AI spending and plans to increase it even more, beyond analyst expectations. Although capital expenditures above expectations often don’t tend to make investors particularly happy, it had pretty much the opposite effect this week, especially for Meta and Microsoft, both of which saw a pop in their stock following the releases. And for Microsoft, which poste

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C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:12:15

The first thing I do every time I need to learn a new codebase is to start drawing the UML diagram of its classes, and usually give up soon after I started. The process of doing it manually is certainly useful, but now with reflections I figure it would be fun to try generate it instead. With C++26 reflections[1] the general consensus is that the magnitude of language change is comparable to what happened with C++11. After my little experiment with it, I would cautiously agree. So how does one

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Engadget review recap: Samsung Z Flip 7, Oakley Meta glasses, DJI Osmo 360 and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:00:12

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . A roundup of the reviews published on Engadget over the last few weeks. Whew, it's been a crazy few weeks for us at Engadget. School may still be out, but there's no summer break for the steady stream of new gadgets coming across our desks. I'll forgive you if you missed a review or t

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Look to the Sky: Bright Fireballs Appear During the Perseids Meteor Shower

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 18:45:04

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering meteor showers to feast your eyes on. Last week saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won't hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23.

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Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ plan: fill your free time with more AI

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-15 08:11:36

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal superintelligence” manifesto, and what it means for the broader AI race. Keep reading for my chat with a Figma exec on the company’s IPO day, a bunch of good links, and some feedback from last week’s issue. Meta has given up on trying to beat ChatGPT at its own game.

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A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-12 18:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:23:42

Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years (an average of $62.5 million per year)—with potentially $100 million in the first year alone—it shattered every historical precedent for scientific and technical compensation we can find on record. That includes salaries during the development of major

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-16 20:28:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-13 06:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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Fast (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 15:19:43

Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. It opened in 2022, yielding a project duration of around 7,600 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project cost $346 million, i.e. $110,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, c

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Jury Decides Meta Stole Data from Users of Period-Tracking App. What to Do If You're Worried

Meta introduces new tools to help identify scam messages on WhatsApp

Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

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Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

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The Best Open Earbuds You Can Buy Aren’t Actually Earbuds at All

How to Watch One of the Most Dazzling Meteor Showers of the Year

AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to build on their own terms

VR Is in a Really Bad Place Right Now and Smart Glasses Are to Blame

AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to stay loyal to their mission

A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet

Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

Zuckerberg Says Meta Is Now Seeing Signs of Advanced AI Improving Itself

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML

Engadget review recap: Samsung Z Flip 7, Oakley Meta glasses, DJI Osmo 360 and more

Look to the Sky: Bright Fireballs Appear During the Perseids Meteor Shower

Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ plan: fill your free time with more AI

A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

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