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For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too often we’ve had to break the news to a young company that the vast majority of their traffic is bots logging into fake accounts.Unsurprisingly, there is a lot that people don’t understand about how the bot ecosystem works. Some bots are performing valuable services like scraping open reservation times for your favorite…

The Google antitrust trial, to determine whether or not the company's Android marketplace, Google Play Store, has put in place monopolistic policies to keep competition out and impact any app's distribution that does not want to be placed in its marketplace due to its high commission fee, is still ongoing. On its ninth day, when Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney also gave his testimony, Google's own representatives also made a shocking revelation where it was found that Spotify gets preferential treatment from Google and does…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the company pays Apple 36% of its Safari search revenue. The search engine shares this revenue, which is reportedly worth $18 billion, in exchange for default status on all of Apple’s devices.Pichai made the admission while being cross-examined at the Epic Games antitrust trial, after a Google witness at the federal antirust trial let the statistic slip. Google’s lead lawyer John Schmidtlein “visibly cringed”  when the exact percentage of ad revenue paid to Apple was…

Meta Platforms has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada, it said on Tuesday, in response to a law requiring internet giants to pay news publishers.The Canadian government quickly denounced the move as "irresponsible," and said the world is watching the process play out in Canada.The Online News Act, passed by the Canadian parliament, would force platforms like Google parent Alphabet and Meta to negotiate commercial deals with Canadian news publishers for their…

After the implementation of paid subscription service which charges $8 (roughly Rs. 660) for a blue verification badge on the microblogging site, X CEO Elon Musk has introduced a new feature to hide the Blue tick.According to the Help page of the micro-blogging site, one of the features reads, “Hide your checkmark: As a subscriber, you can choose to hide your checkmark on your account. The check mark will be hidden on your profile and posts. The checkmark may still appear in some places and some features could still…

The first model of the Apple Watch Ultra is one of the devices getting an increased trade-in value.  Jason Hiner/ZDNETIf you're considering buying a new iPhone 15 Pro or an Apple Watch Series 9, and have wondered how much you could get for your old iPhone, you're in luck. Apple has increased its trade-in offers for the Apple Watch, iPad, and some Android phones by as much as $90 in some cases. This means that Apple users who want to trade in their old Apple Watch Ultra for some credit towards an Ultra 2 or other Apple…

Elon Musk's quest to ditch the Twitter name and replace it with X continues after the social network picked up the coveted @X username. But despite some assuming that its previous owner would be in for a big payday, all they got was some merch and a promise of a meeting with someone at the company.While not necessarily allowed by Twitter's terms of service, accounts have been known to change hands for cold hard cash over the years. Single-character names like @X are particularly sought after and Twitter's branding change…

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After acute health problems that kept her away from Washington for months earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now engaged in a legal effort to gain more control of the finances from her late husband’s trust.The 90-year-old senator filed a petition asking a court to make her daughter, Katherine Feinstein, a successor trustee of Richard Blum’s trust, arguing that the people serving as trustees “have refused to make distributions to reimburse Senator Feinstein’s medical expenses.”Blum, who died last year, was a…

Twitter has launched its Creator Ads Revenue Sharing program in order to entice creators to stay on the platform following the launch of Instagram's Threads.Meta's Threads app launched last week and racked up over 100 million users in just a few days. Now, the threat of a competitor looks to have forced Twitter into an interesting move.On Thursday, Twitter shared the new program in a tweet, "We’re expanding our creator monetization offering to include ads revenue sharing for creators. This means that creators can get a…