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Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and,…
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Do We Still Need Complex Vision-Language Pipelines? Researchers from ByteDance and WHU Introduce Pixel-SAIL—A Single Transformer Model for Pixel-Level Understanding That Outperforms 7B MLLMs
MLLMs have recently advanced in handling fine-grained, pixel-level visual understanding, thereby expanding their applications to tasks such as precise region-based editing and segmentation. Despite their effectiveness, most existing approaches rely heavily on complex architectures composed of separate components such as vision encoders (e.g., CLIP), segmentation networks, and additional fusion or decoding modules. This reliance on…
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Playdate’s second season of games starts in May
Playdate is about to get a big batch of new games. Today, Panic confirmed the first details of the handheld’s upcoming season 2, which will include 12 new games and run from May 29th to July 3rd, with two titles releasing each week. The full season will cost $39. When the Playdate first launched back…
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It
Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI.
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Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory
Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety say they’re concerned that there’s no plan for managing biological samples tied to research projects.
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‘Pop the Balloon’ Was a Viral Hit for Black Daters. Then Netflix Gentrified It
Fans of the hit YouTube series are upset over Netflix’s “watered-down” remake, which one of the streamer’s executives calls a “tragedy.”
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Brendan Carr threatens Comcast over coverage of Abrego Garcia
Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has accused Comcast of “news distortion” over its networks’ coverage of Kilmar Armando Abrego, a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador due to what the government said was an “administrative error.” “Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public,” Carr wrote in a reply to a post…
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Spexi unveils LayerDrone decentralized network for crowdsourcing high-res drone images of Earth
Spexi is launching the LayerDrone Foundation and its decentralized network aimed at encouraging amateur drone pilots to capture high-res Earth imagery.Read More
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Framework Laptop 13 (2025) review: getting better with age
The translucent green bezel option is one of the 2025 model’s only visible changes. On the outside, Framework’s new Laptop 13 looks about the same as it has for the past four years. But the modular, upgradable, easily-repairable laptop has changed plenty where it counts: on the inside. Itâs getting a chip bump for 2025,…
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Instagram Blend lets you share a Reels feed with friends
Instagram is launching a new feature called Blend that’s a custom Reels feed shared between you and members of a DM group. If you’ve invited members of a DM chat to a Blend, then when you tap the Blend icon in a chat, Instagram will show you Reels that are suggested for people in the…