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US Surgeon General calls for tobacco-style health warnings on social media - it's bad for your mental health
"Social media is bad for your health"
A hot potato: The US Surgeon General wants social media to carry the same kind of health warning labels as cigarettes and alcohol. Dr. Vivek Murthy has called on Congress to apply labels to the sites and apps that alert users to the potential mental health harms they cause.
AWS now offers a monster 896-core cloud instance averaging $263 per hour
Serious performance uplift for cloud apps, but priced accordingly
Game over for Twitter/X as Nintendo follows Microsoft and Sony in removing integration
Blame API prices, porn, or both?
T-Mobile's Home Internet Backup keeps ISP customers connected during outages
An alternative for your phone's hotspot during service blips
Adobe can scan user-generated content stored in its cloud, and users aren't happy
The scanning practice has been going on for years, Adobe confirmed, so no need to freak out now
OpenRecall is a free and open source alternative to Microsoft's Recall feature
It's available for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Wi-Fi can measure your breath and heartbeat with remarkable accuracy, research shows
The tech was demonstrated by a Taiwanese power management at Computex
Canada will tax online streaming companies to fund local broadcasters
The five percent fee will take effect this September, and streaming corps are not happy
GOG will soon start deleting your games' cloud saves if they're too large
Make sure to back up locally
New fMRI study reveals internet addiction physically changes brain chemistry in children 10-19
Physical coordination and cognitive functions like memory and decision making are affected
Google's privacy chief and head of competition law are leaving, will not be replaced
Does Google think it doesn't need a privacy chief?
Broadband providers file lawsuits against FCC to crush net neutrality rules
The FCC voted in April to reinstate net neutrality in the US
London hospitals forced to cancel operations following ransomware attack
A pathology service provider was attacked, bringing the NHS into "critical" mode
Team Fortress 2 players drop review bomb on Valve for ignoring game's bot problem
The community is fed up with the cheaters and started a petition demanding developers nip the issue in the bud
What just happened? Team Fortress 2 just got review-bombed so hard that its "recent review" ranking is now "mostly negative." Despite being 17 years old, the team shooter is still very popular, even more so with its recent update. It still ranks as one of the most-played games on Steam.
Leaked Google database reveals some of its worst privacy failings
Nintendo will be annoyed by one revelation
Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users
Watch them, or no more doomscrolling
"I'm a Mac" actor grows up to promote Windows on Arm PCs for Qualcomm
The more "things change," the more they stay the same
Telcos happen to be sitting on a gold mine of buried copper wire
Companies just need to start digging it
Hackers damaged over 600,000 routers last year that belonged to a single ISP
An unusually destructive cyber-attack with an unknown purpose
Google defends failing AI search, while promising improvements
AI Overviews struggle with satire, lack of information, and confusing queries
FCC ends high-speed internet subsidies as funds expire
Millions of low-income Americans could see rising internet costs
TikTok denies report it is cloning its algorithm, potentially for a US-only version of the app
Is ByteDance just playing its cards close to its chest?
Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account
Facepalm: One of Google Cloud's worst nightmares came true in early May, when an embarrassing snafu completely erased a customer's account and data backups. The unlucky victim was Australian pension fund UniSuper, which manages a staggering $135 billion in assets for over 600,000 members. The pension fund was essentially frozen for two weeks, unable to fully operate while it scrambled to recover from third-party backups.
Meta deleted over 2,000 accounts last quarter for posting fake content, Israel identified as major source
Not surprisingly, generative AI was used in the propaganda campaigns