Meta sues advertisers in Brazil and China over 'celeb bait' scams

Meta has sued the people and groups behind three scam operations that used images and deepfakes of celebrities to lure users to scam websites. According to the company, the three entities were based i [...]

I’ve watched the Virgin River season 7 trailer more times than I can count — and one unexpected storyline already feels like rage bait

Netflix has dropped the first Virgin River season 7 trailer and it’s total rage bait, with every storyline first-look is more infuriating than the last. [...]

Lost Records and Blue Prince are coming to the PlayStation Game Catalog at launch

The spiritual successor to Life is Strange is heading to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog as a day-one freebie. The first installment of Don’t Nod’s Lost Records: Bloom & Rage hits Sony’s s [...]

Oxford Dictionary's 2025 word of the year is 'rage bait'

Online usage of the term has tripled in the past year, the dictionary publisher says, prompting the honor [...]

Instagram is generating SEO-bait headlines for its users' posts

It looks like Meta has decided to turn Instagram users into unwitting SEO spam pawns. On Tuesday, 404 Media reported that the platform is generating sensational, likely AI-generated headlines for user [...]

From ‘AI slop’ to ‘rage bait’: 2025’s words of the year represent digital disillusionment

The common element these words share may be an attitude best described as digital nihilism. [...]

Oxford's New Word of the Year? It's Designed to Bait, Debate and Irritate

Firstly, it's not just one word. It's also an unpleasant aspect of our digital life today. [...]

Researchers extract up to 96% of Harry Potter word-for-word from leading AI models

Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, 1984: researchers pulled nearly complete books from commercial language models. Two of the four systems tested didn't even put up a fight. The findings could shape [...]

X open sources its algorithm: 5 ways businesses can benefit

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-fri [...]