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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Meta has been running dozens of paid advertisements on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads that contained AI-generated child sexual abuse material and sexually suggestive images of minors, according to research shared with WIRED. The adverts, active over the past nine months, were found by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) and had been reviewed and approved…
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Sunbird’s iMessage app for Android is back after a major privacy snafu
Sunbird’s iMessage app for Android has returned to the Google Play Store, three years after it was pulled over a serious privacy failure. The app lets Android users take part in iPhone group chats and texts, working by linking an Android device to a remote server that registers it with an Apple ID so Apple’s…
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Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
Samsung Heavy Industries and Dallas-based Mousterian Corporation have signed an engineering contract for their first floating datacentre project, to be moored beside a power plant in Houston, Texas. The deal moves the pair’s partnership from concept to active design work, with the aim of showing that waterborne data halls can bring AI and hyperscale computing…
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark, an AI startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May 2026, has unveiled Hark Handoff, an agent designed to navigate websites and complete tasks on users’ behalf, even where no official API exists. The launch places Hark in a crowded field of computer- and browser-use agents being developed by major players…
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All New Pokopia Bubbly Basin Pokemon And How To Unlock Them
Pokemon Pokopia’s new 2.0 update is live, and this introduces the ability to dive and explore underwater areas of the map. The Bubbly Basin paid expansion also includes dozens of new Pokemon to discover. In this guide, we’ll highlight all of the new Pokemon added with Bubbly Basin and how to create their habitats. You…
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Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
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Is Nintendo Losing Its Soul?
The Switch 2 is an iterative update console. The Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox remakes are safe bets with generic art styles. The Mario movies are by-the-numbers. Is Nintendo losing its soul?
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Democrats pick Abdul El-Sayed to face off in Michigan Senate race
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s US Senate seat, with rival candidate Haley Stevens conceding the race. The contest was one of the most closely watched Democratic primaries of the cycle, pitting El-Sayed, a progressive former Michigan health department director backed by prominent left-wing figures, against Stevens, a sitting US congresswoman seen…
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Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 update will shrink the game by up to 40GB thanks to a texture revamp from NetEase
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase is set to significantly reduce the game’s install size with the upcoming Season 9.5 update, thanks to a large-scale revamp of the game’s textures. Players have long complained about the free-to-play hero shooter’s substantial storage footprint, so a reduction of this scale should be a welcome change for those with limited…
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Banned Steam horror game gets physical release in defiance of Valve
Vile: Exhumed, an FMV horror game about parasocial obsession, was pulled from Steam last year after Valve came under pressure from payment processors Visa and Mastercard to remove certain “adult” content, despite the game containing no nudity and instead exploring themes such as sexual assault. A year on, creator Cara Cadaver (Final Girl Games) is…