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Take a moment and consider the amount of tacky, poorly-made ads you see each day.And we are not talking about the ones you see on billboards or TV, with actual people giving them a green light.Some of these ads are trying to sell you on "miracle cures" that promise to " remove evil and negative energies from your life."

When Northern Ireland goalkeeper Trevor Carson squandered his daughter's birthday money to gamble, he knew he had hit rock bottom.Gambling had taken over his life and things had to change.It's now been eight years since the former Sunderland keeper has placed a bet - but he continues to monitor the temptation.

Domain security firm InfoBlox discovered a command-and-control exploit that, while extremely rare and complex, could be a warning growl from a new, as-yet anonymous state actor.If you do a search for the most recent reports on Domain Name System attacks, you may have a hard time finding one since IDC's 2021 report noting that in 2020, 87% of organizations experienced a DNS attack during 2020.

The world's finest antiquarian book fair runs all weekend in Manhattan.Historic books, precious first editions, massive maps and stunning drawings are packed into the Park Avenue Armory this weekend for the 63rd annual Antiquarian Book Fair.This festival for book collectors is known as the world's finest antiquarian book fair, and this year's showing doesn't disappoint.

Image: C-SPAN Screenshot.Hacking.Disinformation.Surveillance.CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.America is thinking about banning the most popular social media app in the world.TikTok has exploded in the past few years and whether you love it or hate it, you can't deny its huge influence.

As OOH advertising has shifted towards digitisation in-line with technological advancements, the channel has shown increasing influence over online activity.Research from Nielsen claims that OOH advertising is "the most effective offline medium in driving online activity" and can deliver up to four times more online activity per dollar spent than alternative channels such as radio and TV.

WASHINGTON As a potential indictment looms over former President Donald J. Trump, he and his allies have sought to tie the Manhattan district attorney bringing the case to a familiar Republican specter: George Soros, the financier and Democratic megadonor.Mr. Soros, who has backed Democratic candidates and causes as well as democracy and human rights around the world, has for years been a boogeyman on the right, confronting attacks that portray him as a globalist mastermind and that often veer into antisemitic tropes.

Hacking.Disinformation.Surveillance.CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.A new tool that is free to use for consumers aims to better inform people about the types of data their particular car manufacturer might be collecting and sharing about their identity and driving patterns.

Court says under Dutch guidelines, sperm donors are allowed to produce a maximum of 25 children with 12 mothers.A Dutch court has banned a man from donating any more of his sperm after he fathered at least 550 children in the Netherlands and other countries and misled prospective parents about the number of offspring he helped to conceive.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch court on Friday banned a man from donating any more of his sperm after he fathered at least 550 children in the Netherlands and other countries and misled prospective parents about the number of offspring he helped to conceive.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard."I think that there are two paths for AI in digital media," Peretti ."One path is the obvious path that a lot of people will do - but it's a depressing path - using the technology for cost savings and spamming out a bunch of SEO articles that are lower quality than what a journalist could do, but a tenth of the cost."

Image generated by u/chaindrop on Reddit In recent months, advancements in AI-generated media are everywhere: generated photos of historical events that never happened, voices that mimic humans closely enough to break into a bank, and films made using AI instead of animators.But out of all of the creepy, overhyped, or doomsday-ushering examples of AI in the wild, this text-to-video monstrosity of Will Smith eating spaghetti is the most freakish by far.

Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens A Utah parent has filed a request to ban God's most popular blog, the Bible, from schools, citing and ridiculing a law passed last year that removed dozens of books from schools and libraries last year.Get this PORN out of our schools!they wrote in their request for the removal of the book.

Meta ( META) stock hit a new 52-week high on Thursday as investors celebrated the company's return to revenue growth.One of the key drivers: artificial intelligence.Further integration of A.I.helped drive Meta's first revenue increase in three quarters, the company said on Wednesday.Reels monetization is up over 30% on Instagram and over 40% on Facebook on a quarterly basis as A.I. plays a larger role in the platforms.

MGID, the global advertising platform, has announced the integration of Google Web Stories, formerly known as AMP Stories, into its platform, becoming the first third-party partner to support Story Ads and provide publishers with direct access to this additional stream of revenue.By supporting Story Ads, MGID allows mobile-focused publishers using its platform to deliver advertisements via visually rich, tap-through stories, viewable in Google Search, Discover and Images.

After launching My Ad Center last fall, Google is now introducing the Ads Transparency Center as a "searchable hub of all ads served from verified advertisers."The Ads Transparency Center will let you view all the advertisements a company has run using Google's networks.Each ad includes the date it last ran, format (text, video, etc.), and what region (country) it was shown in.

A group of French-language activists has launched a legal action over signs at Notre Dame Cathedral being translated only into English and not any other language.The association, which won a similar case brought against the Eiffel Tower, believes failing to include other foreign languages leads to the increasing global domination of English. Louis Maisonneuve, a spokesperson for the Defense de la langue francaise (Defence of the French language), said the legal complaint was lodged with the Paris court on Monday, the Journee internationale de la Francophonie (international French-speaking day).

Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Buffalo Wild Wings Can a "boneless chicken wing" truly be called a wing?That's the question posed by a new class-action lawsuit filed last week in federal court by a Chicago man who purchased a round of boneless wings in January at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Mount Prospect, Ill.

Microsoft on Tuesday profiled software for sale in online forums that makes it easy for criminals to deploy phishing campaigns that successfully compromise accounts, even when they're protected by the most common form of multi-factor authentication.The phishing kit is the engine that's powering more than 1 million malicious emails each day, researchers with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said.

by Dennis Crouch
Rights to use a person's Name-Image-and-Likeness or NIL generally fall within two categories of intellectual property: rights of publicity and rights of privacy.Rights of publicity protect commercial value that a person has developed in becoming a celebrity.Rights of publicity can also protect against resulting false impressions created by a seeming endorsement.

Packages are the heart of the NodeJS echo system.A package in NodeJS contains all the files required for a module.A module is a javascript library whose code can be reused in any javascript project.If you have worked on the NodeJS echo system, you might have already encountered a file named package.json.