Internal documents seen by Reuters show that the social media giant expected to make 10 percent of its overall revenue from running ads for illegal online casinos, fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, and banned medical products last year. Platform users are shown an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads every day.
A new Theme Packs app has appeared on the Google Play Store that says it’ll instantly update the wallpaper, icons, sounds, GIFs, and more on Pixel devices in a single tap. The first seasonal pack is themed around Wicked: For Good, but as Droidlife notes, it’s not ready yet: the app doesn’t do anything if you install it.
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That’s according to Rich Skrenta, the executive director of Common Crawl — a non-profit that has scraped billions of webpages and reportedly created a backdoor for AI models to secretly train on paywalled articles. Skrenta told The Atlantic that requests to remove such content from its database are “a pain in the ass,” and argues that bots should be allowed to “read the books” for free.
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The redesign, spotted on the updated Apple TV website by MacRumors, splits the typical Apple logo into six colorful slices, with each segment representing one of the subscription services included in the Apple One Premium bundle. It also somewhat resembles Apple’s 1977 rainbow logo, which is a pleasant throwback.
