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Image: Mariia Shalabaieva/Unsplash Meta is significantly expanding its anti-scam arsenal across Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp, introducing a suite of AI-powered detection systems and user alerts to stop fraud before it starts. The announcement, made on Wednesday, comes as the company reports that it removed more than 159 million scam ads in 2025 alone. “Scammers are constantly evolving their tactics — and so are we,” Meta said in a statement. “Every day, criminals use increasingly sophisticated measures to defraud people on our platforms and across the internet.” What’s new on each platform Facebook: Second-guessing that friend request If you’ve ever felt pressured…

Jeff Kaplan, former vice president of Blizzard Entertainment and lead director on Overwatch, left the company in 2021 after it demanded Overwatch generate recurring revenue or it would lay off 1,000 employees, according to a recent interview with PC Gamer. In that time, Kaplan founded a development studio called Kintsugiyama and it has revealed what it has been working on all these years.A far cry from the fantasy of Warcraft and science-fiction of Overwatch, The Legend of California is an open-world survival shooter game set in California during the gold rush era. In the game players will survive and compete for…

Despite communication restrictions, the BBC was able to speak to several Iranians who oppose the government and who initially did not oppose the idea of military action against the Islamic Republic, particularly after another uprising attempt and nationwide protests were subdued in what has become the deadliest protest crackdown in the Islamic Republic’s history.

Biniam Solomon was known for his witty and critical cartoons before the free press was closed.

Image: Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. Meta has unveiled new AI chips, and they make one thing clear: the company wants to build more of the hardware behind its AI work itself. The new lineup shows Meta is expanding that effort in a bigger, more deliberate way. In its update, Meta lays out four chips as part of a broader buildout inside the company. The release gives a clearer view of how the social media giant plans to support its growing AI needs across its platforms. Meta’s next phase starts to show Meta is not presenting one chip and…

Image: przemekklos/Envato A cyberattack has disrupted global operations at medical technology manufacturer Stryker, forcing employees in multiple countries offline and cutting access to core corporate systems. The incident, which began on March 11, triggered widespread outages across the company’s Microsoft environment, leaving staff temporarily unable to access internal applications and devices. “When a company the size of Stryker experiences a global outage tied to a cyber incident, the immediate concern is not just whether data was taken but whether critical systems can still operate safely,” Ross Filipek, CISO at Corsica Technologies, said in an email to eSecurityPlanet. 1 Semperis Employees…

Google has that GFiber is merging with Astound Broadband, in an agreement that sees Astound’s parent company Stonepeak become the majority owner, with Alphabet retaining a minority stake.No financial specifics were detailed in a press release, but the new combined business will be an independent provider led by GFiber’s executive team, who Google says will use its “expertise in high-speed fiber innovation to manage the combined network footprint.” Astound already serves over one million customers across the US, and by joining forces Google says the two providers will be able to grant better internet access to more communities.GFiber, formerly known…

The first season of a TV show is a tricky thing. It has to convince people to watch it and justify the show’s existence to the network (or streaming service) execs. It has to deal with actors and writers who may not have fully dialed into the characters and world yet. There are some shows with absolutely stellar first seasons — Stranger Things, Veronica Mars and Ted Lasso are a few — but many other hit shows stumbled out of the gate, like The Office and Supernatural.Star Trek is not immune to this phenomenon. The Original Series had a decent…

Ruth Jones and Richard E Grant star in new BBC drama The Other Bennet Sister

It’s not just the major social platforms that know how effective an endless scroll of short videos is at hijacking your dopamine system. Disney+ is adding Verts, a selection of short vertical clips you can scroll through to keep your brain chemistry happy when you are in the bathroom so inclined. The company says it’s a “dynamic feed” to help users “quickly find their next favorite watch,” letting you jump straight in to see the full movie or TV show the clip hails from. Not to mention the side benefit of elbowing out those social platforms, many of which use…