A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
… The report, titled “The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safe Online?” showed that 46 percent of 9- to 16-year-olds believe that circumventing age controls is very easy. …
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Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
… Meta, meanwhile, is sprucing up its age-verification tech after a study found that kids are tricking online age checks using simple techniques—including one child hero who circumvented online age verification by drawing on a fake mustache. …
Spring Cleaning? Here's How to Declutter Responsibly—and Maybe Earn Some Cash
… With clothes you can sell to buyers directly or use a middleman service. …
Google's AI Search Results Love to Refer You Back to Google
… Basically, from a web that sends traffic, to a web that conserves it and is zero click.” Google’s long-term strategy remains murky. …
I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
… He said the mixture of “ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling,” and it raised questions about who may be influencing a chatbot’s answers. “I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us for a business model,” he said. “I would do it if it meant that was the only way to get everybody in th… …
It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
… As of Friday afternoon, its status page shows the service fully operational. …
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
… Of the 5,000 AI-coded apps that Zvi says were left publicly accessible to anyone who simply typed their URLs into a browser, he found close to 2,000 that, upon closer inspection, seemed to reveal private data: Screenshots of web apps he shared with WIRED—several of which WIRED verified were still o… …
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
… Zhou predicts that by that time, AI and robots will have made goods and services so abundant that people will no longer need to work. …
$3 Starz Is the Best Streaming Deal of the Moment
… Regular Price Without T-Mobile Bundle: $33 a month Current Deal With T-Mobile: $3 a month for all three services T-Mobile is a phone plan, sure. But the cell phone giant has also made a strategy of offering free and strongly discounted streaming services, activated through your online phone account. …
Can Listening to ‘Subliminals’ Make You Beautiful? Plenty of Women Believe It
… Because an online community of young women sincerely believe that sustained exposure to these sounds and images will improve their physical appearance. …