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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

AI hallucinations are getting ambitious.A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death.“Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.”After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024.Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they n

Show HN: iOS SimulatorCamera – use your MacBook camera with iOS simulators

I’ve been working on an iOS library SimulatorCamera: http://simulatorcamera.akylas.fr/It’s a lightweight iOS library that lets you use your Macbook camera or a video as camera feed in iOS simulators. Apple never implemented it and i really needed it for my apps. There are multiple ways of "integrating" it in your app. I am also working on a "swizzle" way allowing to integrate with a simple "install" call.It’s still evolving, and I’d really appreciate

Beyond Gravitational Threshold: Orbiting Uncertainty Loops With Empathetic Exhaustion

By the time the household understood the nature of the disorder, the architecture of the family itself had already begun reorganizing around it.It wasn’t dramatic and perhaps that’s what made it so dangerous.The collapse did not arrive with sirens, shattered windows, or cinematic overdoses. It arrived subtly through altered routines, emotional distortions, sporadic instability inside the home. The family system adapted gradually to dysfunction until dysfunction itself became ambient. Like carbon

CNN Founder Ted Turner Dies at 87

Turner pioneered the 24-hour news network, fundamentally changing the news industry.

5 science-backed pricing tips from the U.K.’s top marketing podcast

In 2007, Coulter and Coulter showed two advertisements to two random groups of customers. Each advertised £10 discounts on flights to Turkey. One listed the tickets at £188. The other showed a higher price: £233. Customers found that the cheaper tickets felt like a worse value. Why? Researchers found that people more easily differentiate smaller numbers. The difference between 4 and 3 seems more salient than 9 and 8. So, customers were more likely to buy when the prices ended in smaller numbers

Brand Visibility: How to Increase It in the Era of AI

Brand visibility determines whether your business gets found or gets passed over — in search results, on social feeds, and increasingly, in AI-generated answers. It’s one of the highest-leverage investments a marketing team can make, and also one of the most commonly mismanaged. Most teams treat visibility as a byproduct of other activities: run some ads, publish some content, and hope people notice. The brands that consistently outperform their categories do the opposite — they deliberately bu

New Disney CEO Reveals the AI Enhancements Coming to Disney+

In his first earnings call, CEO Josh D'Amaro calls Disney+ the 'digital centerpiece' of the company.

The Wearable Data Paradox: Why More Health Data Isn’t Reducing Healthcare Costs

Wearable devices have become a symbol of modern health awareness. From tracking sleep cycles to monitoring heart rate variability, they promise a more proactive, data-driven approach to care. Adoption continues to rise, and with it, the expectation that more data will translate into better outcomes—and lower costs.But that transformation has yet to fully materialize.Despite the explosion of wearable data, most healthcare systems and employer-sponsored plans still struggle to turn that informatio

Advertisers Spent $1 Billion on Criteo in Q1, Up 8% Year-Over-Year

Still, Criteo's growth numbers remain plagued by two major client losses.

Old Navy Appoints Michael Francis as Chief Customer Officer Amid Turnaround

Gap Inc. has brought on veteran brand executive Michael Francis as chief customer officer of Old Navy and head of marketing shared services for the group.

Ziff Davis Buys Four Brands From Recurrent Ventures, Launches a Lifestyle Group

The company acquired Dwell, Domino, Business of Home, and PopSci, extending a multiyear roll-up as competitors pull back from the open web.

The Real WPP Story Is in the Margin, Not the Revenue

When WPP posted its first-quarter numbers last week, one line did all the talking.

Alberta's Health Minister Was Called "Morbidly Obese" By A Conservative Party Executive

<b>The party has promised to look into Jordan Lien's "dumb" comment.</b> He has since issued an apology.

17 Times Old People Were The Best Facebook Users

Voice dictation, blissful ignorance, TYPING IN ALL CAPS — this post has it all!

Facebook Has Announced A Multistep Plan To Crack Down On Anti-Vax Misinformation

The platform said the crackdown will also apply to Instagram's hashtag pages and Explore section.

The Fake Newsletter: Did Facebook Help Kill Vine?

UK committee report calls the company “digital gangsters.”

U.S. Senate Demands Answers From Facebook About Alleged Anti-Conservative Bias

"Facebook must answer these serious allegations," said the chairman of the Senate commerce committee of reports the company gave less prominence to stories from right-wing media outlets.

21 Terrifying, Shocking, And Extremely Disturbing Things I Learned Last Month

A pregnant woman was stabbed to death after a Facebook Marketplace transaction earlier this year.

25 Things That — For Better Or Worse — Haven’t Been The Same Since The Pandemic

"People convinced themselves that a Facebook meme was a more trustworthy source than a scientific journal."

Here's Everything You Need To Know About What Was Said At BuzzFeed's Live EU Event

David Cameron, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, and Penny Mordaunt answered readers' questions at a series of live town hall meetings hosted by BuzzFeed News and Facebook Live.