SkyWalk fraudsters have embedded secret web browsers inside various iOS gaming apps. These apps are downloadable in the App Store and appear legitimate. Their games are playable. But when a user opens one, the app also secretly launches hidden websites on the user's iOS device. As the user plays "Sushi Party" or "Bicycle Race" in the app, the hidden sites run in the background, undetected, serving ads no one sees. Impressions are reported. Advertisers get billed. Not a single ad is viewed by a human.
"There's this bullshit that we're seeing from Meta and OpenAI and others where they decided that somehow we're better off with all AI-created social media content," Rabble said in an interview with Business Insider. "That's not where social media came from. Social media was social first. It's about humans and our connection, not just pretty videos."
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search new ad layout is driving accidental clicks on search ads. Google and Bing are indexing Grokipedia, the AI-generated online encyclopedia, like crazy. Raptive sued Google saying they use its data to cheat them, it can cost billions. Reddit said its search traffic is flat, AI is not a traffic driver and 50% of its traffic comes from Google. John Mueller of Google issued a PSA saying verify your cloud provider with Search Console.
As I wore them on one of my walks through San Francisco, on the shore of Ocean Beach, I came upon a dolphin-like fish that had washed up on the sand. Though I got my camera glasses close enough to the thing that I could smell it, Meta's AI assistant could not tell me what kind of animal it was. It correctly identified that it was very dead and that I should not touch it.
And it reminded me of kind of a, in a different way, the way that those, that Republican text thread in New York, you know, making jokes about watermelon and making jokes about the Holocaust and making jokes about Hitler and making jokes about women and making jokes about gay people and just the vile, vile vile. By the way, if people haven't read it, I mean, be careful reading it,
