An Amazon Tale: Fake agents, leaked cart deets, and the OTP chase
Somehow, fraudsters are sourcing knowledge of your order deliveries. They’re using it to phish one-time passwords (OTP) from unsuspecting customers while acting as Amazon executives.
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The Last Koo: Desi social coop chirped with oopsies and died poor
Koo, once hailed as India’s great Twitter replacement, apparently borrowed the worst of Twitter, except its money-making formula. After a short life, it folded in 2024, killing the great Indian dream of a desi social media phenomenon.
Meta served a “pay us or sell out” deal for social media. The EU is now up its trunk.
Meta's ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram have royally pissed the European regulators once again, and the fine could be 10% of its annual revenue. Are you not entertained?
Gemini is trying to hide Google’s ethics shitshow, and fumbling. LOL!
Look, we all know Google is no paragon of ethics. But the situation is so bad that even Gemini is vomiting the truth.Only for a moment.
Twitter likes are gone. How do we nab our horny old politician now?
You can no longer see what a person has liked on Twitter. Now, we don’t support stalking exes. But humanity deserves a tool to expose saintly politicians simping for busty OF stars.
Google Search could be smothering your creativity
A Carnegie Mellon University study reveals starting your brainstorming process with Google can be detrimental to the group's creativity.
Teams relying much on search engines often produced inundatingly same, less original ideas due to a cognitive bias called "fixation effect," where seeing popular answers converges our thought process instead of diverging it.
While individuals weren't necessarily dumber with Google, groups of Google users seemed to get stuck in a rut, often coming up with the same common ideas, sometimes even in the same order! Talk about a copy-and-paste creativity crisis.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," explained lead author Danny Oppenheimer.
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