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Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones

An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices — despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total […]

Strategists warn yields to stay high even if West Asia conflict ends | World News

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For all the hand-wringing over war-related inflation fears, there are signs that other drivers are having as much a bearing on longer-term borrowing costs.   In the US, so-called real yields, which strip out inflation, have had a greater impact, indicating bond investors aren’t just worried about price pressures from the Iran war.  […]

Premier Energies promoters divest 5.3% stake; JM launches pvt credit fund | Markets News

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Promoters of Premier Energies, a renewable energy firm, offloaded 5.3 per cent stake in the company for ₹2,413 crore.  According to exchange data, promoter group entities and family members — including Surenderpal Singh Saluja, Manjeet Kaur Saluja, Jasveen Kaur Saluja, and Charandeep Singh Saluja — sold shares at ₹955 apiece.  Among the […]

Sora first impressions

Since we introduced Sora to the world last month, we’ve been working with artists to learn how Sora might aid in their creative process. Source link

Social Engineering for Good – IEEE Spectrum

“Social engineering” sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller, charged with totalitarian control and fringe paranoia. More mundanely, it’s come to be associated with phishing and other scams, in which fraudsters manipulate people into disclosing personal information. Yet the concept is older and more benign: it is the deliberate shaping of human behavior, often […]

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

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AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp, claims that this shift is imminent. Last Thursday, Evans announced on X that the company, […]