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Microsoft Copilot rolling out to 743,000 Accenture employeesSounds big, but still inside a slow enterprise monetization story Only ~3% of 450M Microsoft 365 enterprise users pay $30/month for CopilotThat gap is the real issue, not distribution scale Microsoft shares down ~12% this yearOne of its sharpest drawdowns since the 2008 period Market concern is not …
Attackers combine spam floods with fake IT support Victims tricked into Quick Assist sessions deploying A0Backdoor Malware enables full account takeover and remote code execution Cybercriminals are using a new combination of spam and IT support impersonation to deploy malware and take over corporate devices, experts have warned.Security researchers at BlueVoyant found cybercriminals would start …
JUST IN – UK fines Reddit £14M for “failing to keep children safe,” including not checking the age of users accessing its platform — Sky — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 24, 2026 Reddit has been fined more than £14m by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to keep children safe. It is the largest fine ever …
https://downdetector.com/status/google/ YouTube, you good bro? Sounds like a global outage right now. pic.twitter.com/LFEiw6BEwP — Dave Sousa (@dave_sousa) February 18, 2026 https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTubeDOWN?src=hashtag_click 🚨 YOUTUBE DOWN UPDATE: YouTube says they do not yet have a fix for massive outage just yet. https://t.co/WYDc5ay1nz pic.twitter.com/1dxRlTUf7X — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 18, 2026 Guys, YouTube DEAD for anyone else? 😭'Something went …
Discord has announced a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions. Discord will soon give all users teen-level access until …
Was the man’s name Jussie Smollett? — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) January 25, 2026 Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival After Being Told Trump Was ‘Going to Deport’ Him The congressman was allegedly punched in the face and racially harassed during the CAA‘s Sundance party on Friday, Jan. 23 Florida Rep. Maxwell …
Donald Trump has already been very vocal on his Truth Social platform today about certain UN and NATO members. Now the US president has shared another user’s post on the platform which says “the enemy is within”, and that “China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the UN and NATO”. https://news.sky.com/story/greenland-live-trump-tariffs-nobel-peace-prize-latest-starmer-13489831?postid=10886094#liveblog-body …
BREAKING: The 18 states banning junk food for SNAP users beginning in 2026 include: Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, West Virginia, Idaho, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Hawaii, South Carolina, North Dakota, and Missouri. pic.twitter.com/allNRqJMEd — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) December 29, 2025 The states implementing junk‑food restrictions under federal waivers are: 1. Arkansas …
In a new experiment, Meta is limiting the number of links users can post on Facebook, unless they have a paid Meta Verified subscription. Over the last week, several users have spotted Meta’s test, which impacts link posting. Social media strategist Matt Navarra noted that users part of the test can only post two links …
500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11 pic.twitter.com/uu0UUVmjey — Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) December 8, 2025 Here’s the solution. You can still use Windows 10 enterprise until 2032 . You can download LTSC here: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links Then follow this to activate: https://massgrave.dev/manual_hwid_activation h/t Empyreaan
A Manhattan judge has ordered OpenAI to provide the Daily News and other news outlets with millions of anonymous chats between ChatGPT and its users in a major ongoing copyright infringement case. In a nine-page order made public Wednesday, Manhattan Magistrate Judge Ona Wang denied OpenAI’s request to reconsider her November ruling requiring the tech …
So you’re saying there are now thousands of them and cost almost nothing. How are the big guys gonna pay back those $500 billion in debt with $10 month subs? — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) December 2, 2025 I'm not bearish on AI as a whole, but I am increasingly skeptical about the potential of …
Trump claims Black Friday proves the economy is fixed, but the data shows 41% of BNPL users are already missing payments. byu/DumbMoneyMedia inEducatedInvesting Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett touts ‘best Black Friday that we’ve ever seen’ as holiday spending surges Kevin Hassett credits Trump policies for holiday spending surge while pushing back on Atlantic report …
Another day, another security breach. This time, it’s OpenAI’s turn. Today, users are waking up to discover emails from OpenAI’s security team, confirming more security issues at the company. This one is a bit more egregious than previous breaches, exposing emails, names, and approximate locations of an undisclosed number of users. OpenAI claims that ChatGPT …
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI. Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth. Instead of promptly removing bad actors, …
A 76-year-old woman in Washington, DC just won a lawsuit that forbids her neighbor from smoking marijuana inside his own home. What sounds like a local nuisance case has quietly set a national precedent that could reshape every state where marijuana is legal under local law but still banned federally. For five years, Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd …
https://downdetector.com/ You don’t say … 🤔 https://t.co/9oLKZGyec5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025 THE INTERNET JUST FACEPLANTED – AND AMAZON’S HOLDING THE CORD Snapchat’s dead. Roblox won’t load. Canva’s crying. Even Alexa’s pretending she didn’t hear you. It’s not you – it’s AWS, the invisible backbone of half the web, choking in its own …
China’s censors are moving to stamp out more than just political dissent online. Now, they are targeting the public mood itself — punishing bloggers and influencers whose weary posts are resonating widely in a country where optimism is fraying. Authorities have punished two bloggers who advocated for a life of less work and less pressure; …
Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) invited the Chief Executive Officers of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at a full committee hearing on October 8, 2025. The hearing will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts. “The politically …
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) on Thursday said he will seek to have social media companies place lifetime bans on users who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist shot Wednesday while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. “I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to …
Apple did not deliver innovation. It delivered a thinner phone with weaker specs, a higher price, and hidden compromises disguised as features. The iPhone 17 Air costs $999, has a single rear camera, and offers less battery life than the cheaper iPhone 17. Apple described it as “a paradox you have to hold to believe” …
Meta AI could already be scanning your private photos. Facebook is testing a feature that uploads your entire camera roll for “cloud processing.” Some users even found it enabled without consent. Once active, Meta can analyze faces, IDs, and sensitive data. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/zlq4T2wuGn — Proton Drive (@ProtonDrive) September 8, 2025 Meta AI could be scanning …
Something ruptured under the surface and the quiet around it feels louder than the break itself. At 05:45 UTC on Saturday, multiple subsea cables were severed in the Red Sea, triggering internet outages across Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft called it a “service degradation,” but the phrase barely hides the scale of …
Debit card users beware: This ATM Cash Trap is spreading fast and draining accounts in seconds. In this video, I’ll break down how the scam works, how to spot it, and what to do if your money gets stuck. Stay alert before your next withdrawal! https://youtu.be/gQUwgZDJPiM
Wikipedia might soon need a bouncer to keep Brits off the site. https://t.co/JoKSHWGUop — Mr H (@MrHrandomnumber) August 11, 2025 “The High Court has rejected a challenge by Wikipedia to Britain’s online safety rules after the company claimed the laws could force it to block millions of people in the UK from visiting its website.” …
They didn’t release GPT-5. They pulled the pin and tossed it. The livestream sold a moonshot. What landed was a limp — and a trust kill. “GPT-5 is not an upgrade. It is a forced downgrade. GPT-5 hallucinates. It forgets context. It feels unstable and inconsistent.”https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/08/openai-gpt-5-ai-model-user-backlash-criticism.html Overnight, eight models disappeared. No backup. No warning. Imagine …
Reddit now lets users hide their post and comment history. The change was framed as a privacy upgrade. “Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what’s shared on their user profiles.” https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/reddit-now-lets-you-hide-content-like-posts-and-comments-from-your-user-profile/ But the rollout timing and feature design suggest something else. The new …
Zillow’s traffic hit 230 million monthly visitors while home sales collapsed to a 30-year low. Inventory climbed 17 percent year over year to 1.36 million listings. Price cuts reached 26.6 percent of active listings in June. Mortgage rates hover near 7 percent. Sellers won’t list. Buyers won’t bite. Zillow’s Q2 revenue jumped double digits. Stock’s …
President Trump signed off on a tax reform that wipes out the $600 IRS reporting rule for payment apps. The rollback applies to CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, Airbnb, Etsy, and other platforms that process peer-to-peer payments. Starting with the 2025 tax year, users will only receive Form 1099-K if they cross both $20,000 in gross payments …
CNN ran a segment on an app called ICEBlock. It lets users mark the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on a live map. No logins. No tracking. Just anonymous pins. The developer calls it a digital alert system. Homeland Security calls it obstruction. Kristi Noem, the current Secretary of Homeland Security, posted the …