Don’t waste your money

Don’t waste your money: Meta’s now pitching its built-in AI features that help you create full ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. That includes image and text generation. I wouldn’t trust it, but watch your ads and spending very carefully if you do.

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A new hospital cyberattack left patients without care – Keep your records safe

Come with me. Imagine you rush to the emergency room, but after five hours, they tell you to find another hospital. Or you check in at your specialist’s office for a chronic condition, only to find they’ve lost your entire medical history. Both of these scenarios just happened.

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Trivia

Amazon wasn’t always called “Amazon.” Our pal, Jeff Bezos, considered two other names first. Were they … A.) Caboodle, B.) Relentless, C.) Cadabra and/or D.) Tireless?

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0 job openings at Tesla

Way down from the 3,400 roles posted just a week ago. Elon Musk says he’s being “absolutely hardcore” about job cuts, trimming 20,000 folks over four weeks. Ex-employees were reportedly laid off over email, and let’s just say they’re hardcore pissed about it.

50,000 honeybees

Found in the wall of a child’s bedroom in Charlotte, North Carolina. The little guy thought it was a monster in his room! A beekeeper transported the hive to a sanctuary, but their 100-pound honeycomb was destroyed. What a buzzkill!

$55,000 for an Insta

For a foodie account with 359,000 followers. You can find the “deal” on resale site Social Tradia. Wild guess: Most of the followers are bots, and the rest are gonna smash that “unfollow” button once they catch wind of a bait and switch. Pass.

80-year-old WWII letters 

From a U.S. soldier showed up in a Texas mailbag. A postal worker tracked down the late sender’s sister and drove 500 miles on his day off to return them to her. It’s like the USPS creed: “Neither snow nor rain … nor an unpaid five-and-a-half-hour drive.” Love that!

0 texts and emails sent by Tom Selleck, ever

The actor says he relies on others, including a secretary (yup, he used that word!) and his wife, to communicate electronically for him. Tom, you’ve gotta meet Siri.

92 minutes is U.S. moviegoers’ ideal feature film length

Film critics disagree: “Oppenheimer” won the Oscar last year at double that length — 180 minutes! A perfect movie to test the theory: 1940’s “His Girl Friday.” Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, it’s, yep, 92 minutes.

7,470 Firefox tabs take up just 70MB of memory

That’s the buzz after one woman lost (and then found) the tabs in her Firefox Profile cache with help from X users. She said it took just seconds to restore them all. Firefox: The browser for tab hoarders.

Trivia

How does your smartphone’s computing power compare to the guidance computer aboard the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar module? Is a smartphone … A.) About as powerful, B.) 120 times more powerful, C) 12,000 times more powerful or D.) 120,000 times more powerful?

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