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Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
Annie Bang / Bloomberg:
Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts — Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc. has paid for thousands of television commercials to promote its safety work with teens ahead …
Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt — With preset animations, you can have a still photo wave to your friends or put on a party hat.
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case — FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed a long-shot request for a new trial on the charges for which he's currently serving …
Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M — Artificial intelligence voice infrastructure startup Newo Inc. announced today that it has raised $25 million in new funding …
Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 — Devices that don't receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates.