Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash
Advertisers report that costs per impressions on the automated ad platform Advantage Plus have skyrocketed and performance has dropped.
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Eken fixes ‘terrible’ video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you
The company has issued a firmware fix in response to a Consumer Reports investigation.
X now wants to compete with Google Meet.
I mean, what could go wrong? A new video conferencing feature in the style of Zoom, Meet and Microsoft Teams is coming soon to X, according to X user/Elon whisperer DogeDesigner and X Daily News.
X Conferences will be hosted on the the platform’s existing live audio platform X Spaces (which added video earlier this year), according to a screenshot of the beta version.
Former NSA hacker and former Apple researcher launch iOS security startup.
There’s a lack of cybersecurity products devoted to iOS and macOS, and the startup DoubleYou thinks it can fix that problem, says co-founders Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin.
DoubleYou will be like a “supplier of car parts” for Apple cybersecurity solutions, developing tools that it can license to companies, who can then build them in their security products.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/ex-nsa-ex-apple-researcher-doubleyou/
Bluesky backs effort to make Mastodon apps compatible with its protocol.
The decentralized social network has awarded an $800 grant to SkyBridge, an “in-progress proxy web server that translates Mastodon API calls into appropriate Bluesky ones,” which will let people use their favorite Mastodon apps on Bluesky.
The funds came from Bluesky’s rather modest ($10,000 in its initial allocation) grant fund for developers on the AT Protocol.
T-Mobile wants to buy the fiber optic company Lumos.
Ahead of its earnings call today, T-Mobile announced a new joint venture with Swedish investment firm EQT to buy Lumos Fiber, which reaches over 350,000 households.
Once the deal closes, T-Mobile will invest $950 million for a 50 percent stake in Lumos and acquire all of its existing fiber customers, with plans to expand even further. The T-Mobile Fiber network is currently in 16 markets.
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-eqt-jv-to-acquire-lumos
You don’t know your K-pop persona, do you?
Don’t be super shy. Spotify does.
Fortnite will let players hide mean emotes
A new setting will let players opt out of seeing “overly confrontational” emotes.
Europe’s warming up at nearly twice the global average, says new report
In 2023, the continent experienced extreme heatwaves, severe flooding, and its largest ever recorded wildfire.
Cybertruck owner reveals Tesla’s very riveting fix for pedal problems.
A Tesla delivery center in Virginia reportedly has a way to deal with the now-recalled accelerator pedal on Cybertrucks.
In a Facebook post, Jim McGlone wrote that they installed a temporary rivet to secure the pad that might slip off and get stuck. With that in place, he picked up his new Cybertruck yesterday after it had been in a “containment hold.”
