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Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/instacart-ftc-settlement-deceptive-billing.html

Instacart to pay $60 million to settle FTC claims it deceived customers
The federal agency alleged that Instacart used a number of deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising.

»Mit Android 17 — Google ermöglicht einfache Installation alternativer App-Stores:
Google will mit Android 17 alternative App-Stores neben dem Play Store zulassen. Ein Mockup zeigt, wie einfach die Installation sein soll«
Da bin ich mal gespannt wie Datensammlung arm diese umgesetz werden oder ob die Dritte um so mehr die User*innen beschnüffelt.
P.S. Kommerziell macht Traking "Sinn" doch wird sehr wohl pol. ausgenutzt.
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Mit Android 17: Google ermöglicht einfache Installation alternativer App-Stores
Google will mit Android 17 alternative App-Stores neben dem Play Store zulassen. Ein Mockup zeigt, wie einfach die Installation sein soll.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitru…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/

Cowboys vs. Raiders Week 11 inactives: Players ruled out for Monday's game https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-vs-raiders-week-11-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-monday-s-game

Worth a read.
https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/inside-canadas-shadowy-crypto-banking-system-that-makes-it-easy-to-facilitate-an-unlimited…

Inside Canada's shadowy crypto banking system that makes it easy to facilitate 'an unlimited amount of crime'
Reporters went undercover to expose a growing crypto-to-cash industry that is openly flouting anti-money laundering measures.

Übrigens:
Der #BND schaltet seit Tagen Unmengen an #Jobanzeigen auf #Instagram. Also wird immer wieder ausgespielt.
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A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-s

AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK’s AISI finds
UK AISI’s first Frontier AI Trends Report finds that AI models are getting better at self-replication, too