A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators

Creators and publishers have long worried about Meta's ability to throttle links to outside content. Now, the company is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywa [...]

Meta blocks links to ICE List, a Wiki that names agents

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List, a website that compiles information about incidents involving Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and lists thousands of t [...]

Viktor Antonov, art director for Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died, according to colleagues

Viktor Antonov, best known for his work as art lead on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has reportedly died at age 52. Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw broke the news in an Instagram Story, and other colleagu [...]

Meta is trying to get its antitrust case thrown out in the middle of the trial

The FTC just rested its case following weeks of testimony in a landmark antitrust case against Meta. But before Meta can begin its defense, the company's lawyers have opted for another move: aski [...]

Taming the Social Chaos: AI’s Quiet Revolution in Marketing

While everyone debates whether AI will replace marketers, something more interesting is happening behind the scenes. AI is finally bringing structured systems of scale and measurement to marketing [...]

Workday says hackers used social engineering to access personal data during a breach

Human resources technology company Workday has confirmed that a data breach has affected its third-party CRM platform. In a blog post announcing the breach, the company said that a social engineering [...]

New research suggests AI model updates are now "significant social events" involving real mourning

OpenAI's GPT-4o will soon be shut down for good, and some users are dreading this moment because they feel emotionally attached to the AI model. A researcher has now examined their social media p [...]

Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Privacy is no longer a social norm — declaring the erosion of social boundaries

Social media users have organically grown less concerned about privacy over time, according to the creator of Facebook [...]

Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July

Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in [...]