The FTC Finds a Supplement Maker for Review Hijacking Amazon Listings

The FTC is find a supplement maker, $600,000 for review hijacking Amazon listings. Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative AI project at Twitter after purchasing 10,000 of the machines. The only thing that I learned was that you can use panties as a mask and a pinch. And his mustache probably smells really bad.

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The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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