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Sources: after shelling out billions to acquire US users, Temu is now focusing more on acquiring users in Europe and elsewhere, following TikTok's US issues (Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/jw7Q1wU6bm

Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an RAF aircraft carrying British Defence Secretary #Grant #Shapps back from Poland, according to government sources.
Defence sources said there was no danger to Shapps, who was travelling back to the UK, though they called it a “wildly irresponsible” act of

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Irene Cara:
🎵 Flashdance... What a Feeling
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https://open.spotify.com/track/3cbV252akVZInSvJk7jAYX
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/irene-cara-flashdance-what-a-feeling

Filings: Roku reveals a breach that compromised 15K accounts between December 2023 and February 2024 and tells users hackers didn't get sensitive personal info (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/roku-accounts-hacked-data-breach/

Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Compromised in Data Breach - TheWrap
Hackers gained access through login credentials obtained by third party sources and, in a limited number of cases, attempted to purchase streaming subscriptions

Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure
Munjung Kim, Tu\u{g}rulcan Elmas, Filippo Menczer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08110 https://…

Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure
Hate speech on social media is a pressing concern. Understanding the factors associated with hate speech may help mitigate it. Here we explore the association between hate speech and exposure to fake news by studying the correlation between exposure to news from low-credibility sources through following connections and the use of hate speech on Twitter. Using news source credibility labels and a dataset of posts with hate speech targeting various populations, we find that hate speakers are expo…

Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-plots-using-virtual-in…

TikTok Plots Using Virtual Influencers for Advertising
TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers an artificial intelligence-powered feature that would generate avatars to starin videos—virtual influencers that would potentially compete with human ...

Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-plots-using-virtual-in…

TikTok Plots Using Virtual Influencers for Advertising
TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers an artificial intelligence-powered feature that would generate avatars to starin videos—virtual influencers that would potentially compete with human ...

Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ho

How ByteDance Bungled a Money-Laundering Probe Into TikTok Payments
In early 2023, Irish banking regulators contacted ByteDance with a pointed question: Why was the Chinese internet giant and parent company of TikTok moving large sums of money, likely in the tens of millions of dollars, out of its HSBC bank accounts? ByteDance officials quickly sought to assuage ...

Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-plots-using-virtual-in…

TikTok Plots Using Virtual Influencers for Advertising
TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers an artificial intelligence-powered feature that would generate avatars to starin videos—virtual influencers that would potentially compete with human ...

Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more "art than a science", often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Is Elon Musk's Starlink Profitable? SpaceX Satellites Are Money Losers
SpaceX celebrates the satellite business as a money-making venture fueling a quest to launch rockets and reach Mars.