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Instead of promptly removing bad actors, Meta allowed “high value accounts” to “accrue more than 500 strikes without Meta shutting them down,” Reuters reported. The more strikes a bad actor accrued, the more Meta could charge to run ads, as Meta’s documents showed the company “penalized” scammers by charging higher ad rates. Meanwhile, Meta acknowledged in documents that its systems helped scammers target users most likely to click on their ads.

“Users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests,” Reuters reported.

Internally, Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily, a 2024 document showed. Last year, the company projected that about $16 billion, which represents about 10 percent of its revenue, would come from scam ads.

“Hey it’s me,” one scam advertisement using Elon Musk’s photo read. “I have a gift for you text me.” Another using Donald Trump’s photo claimed the US president was offering $710 to every American as “tariff relief.” Perhaps most depressingly, a third posed as a real law firm, offering advice on how to avoid falling victim to online scams.

My buddy built a PC for me in 2014. I've gotten a lot of use out of it, but for the last few years I've just been using it solely as a media server. Which it works fine for. But we are running out of space in our house and that thing is huge and loud, so I want to replace it with a Lenovo mini PC to work as my media server and use my external 5 TB hard drive for storage (I have a couple TBs just in pictures and stuff).

However, I realized I don't really know how to dispose of this old PC. I really don't want to generate a bunch of e-waste. I'd be happy to give it away but I can't imagine there's a way to get rid of an 11 year old homebuilt PC (good specs at the time, but still). I would be willing to pay a service to dispose of it in environmentally-responsible way, but I also feel like that you really need to know who you're giving it to since whenever I see e-waste sites pop up around town it always seems shady.

Suggestions?

Pavan Davuluri, the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft, recently took to X to share their feelings on the future of the OS (as spotted by Tom's Hardware). "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere."

If that phrase reads to you like someone has thrown a dart at a board filled with LinkedIn buzzwords, you're not alone. Effectively, an agentic AI is one that can run autonomously, without the need to check back in on each step of the process.

If you ask a standard non-agentic AI to make you a poem, it can. If you ask that same AI to set up supply chains, adjusting stock and employees in real-time, based on information fed to it, it can't do it .

So, in this sense, Windows as an agentic AI is one that is designed to run automations daily to lighten the productivity load. However, I can't help but wonder who wants that out of their OS?

The model, which takes a conservative view of global climate action, was dropped in 2020 after the IEA was repeatedly criticised for underestimating the growth of renewable energy in its annual report.

The IEA returned the scenario to its outlook this year after calls from the White House to present a more optimistic view for the future of oil. The IEA has denied it reintroduced its new scenario in response to pressure from the US.

Critics of the forecast believe it underestimates the pace of electric vehicle take-up, particularly in developing countries in Asia, a trend that is already helping to reduce the world’s demand for oil.

jThe IEA’s report, which comes as leaders gather in Belém, in Brazil, for the Cop30 climate talks, also included two main scenarios in which oil consumption reached a peak by 2030 because of the strong take-up onof electric vehicles and renewable energy.*

In all scenarios, renewable energy is expected to at least double over the next five years. The outlook suggested the world was likely to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than had been rolled out over the past 40.

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said there was now “irreversible momentum towards the age of electricity”, which in every IEA scenario showed that renewable energy was “growing faster than any other major energy source”.

Electricity demand is rising far faster than planners expected, driven by AI and data centres, electrification, the reshoring of industry, and LNG expansion. The US is not adding enough new power generation or investing enough in its old, creaky grids. Energy economist Ed Hirs says some parts of the US may suffer power shortages and outages.

One is a 500 GB NVME drive; the other is a 1 TB SSD. It wasn't my intention, I just wanted both drives wiped.

Found out through this article that some random source distro I've never heard of has successfully gotten firefox 145 up and running on a 32bit cpu.

Seeing that some distro maintainers actually are fighting to keep providing 32bit packages made my little nerd self very happy. Fingers crossed they can keep it working for a while. (And ofc, all hardware has to stop being supported eventually, doesn't make it any less sad when they day comes.)

The distro is T2 linux, and the package can be found here

Interview with Nic Fulghum, Senior Energy and Climate Data Analyst at Ember Energy, about his report, "Solar and wind growth meets all new electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025."

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/exposed-antirenewables-group-used-ai-to-fight-1bn-wind-farm-plan/news-story/222432b4f7474550ca89bfebea66e454?amp