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just now (447+ words) Friday, 12 Dec 2025 A man types into a keyboard during the Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on July 29, 2017. REUTERS/Steve Marcus WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A central barrier to the creation of bogus social media accounts can be bypassed for as little as a few cents at a time, researchers at the University of Cambridge determined, a sign of just how low the barriers are to online disinformation efforts. "The costs are absolutely trivial," he said. The researchers said they collected a year's worth of data from four providers of on-demand text message verification - SMSActivate, 5Sim, SMShub, and SMSPVA - to come up with figures for the costs associated with creating a fake account on various social media platforms across the globe. SMS activation does not guarantee an account will not get blocked, but Roozenbeek, who researches propaganda, said he and…...

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1+ min ago (934+ words) Meta description: Palantir stock (PLTR) is in focus on Dec. 12, 2025 as a major U.S. Navy contract, a new lawsuit escalation, and lofty valuation debates collide with 2026 forecasts. Shares have been trading in the mid-$180s today, with session levels cited between $180.21 and $188.50. [1] Palantir's market capitalization is sitting around $447 billion. [2] Below is what's driving Palantir stock right now, how Wall Street is framing 2026 expectations, and what investors will be watching next. Palantir shares have been volatile but elevated, reflecting how investors continue to treat the company as a bellwether for applied AI in government and industry. According to Robinhood's market snapshot, PLTR traded between $180.21 and $188.50 today. [3] MarketWatch lists Palantir's market cap near $446.99B. [4] Palantir is also closing out an explosive year: multiple market outlets now peg the stock's 2025 gain at roughly ~140%. [5] That kind of run matters because, at these levels, even "good news" can be…...

2+ min ago (1203+ words) Meta description: Meta Platforms stock is in focus on Dec. 12, 2025 as investors weigh heavy AI spending, fresh analyst forecasts, and a busy slate of regulatory and product catalysts. Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) is ending the week with the market asking the same question it's asking across Big Tech: When do the massive AI investments translate into durable margin expansion'and how much volatility will investors tolerate until then? As of the latest available quotes, Meta shares were last at $652.71 at the prior close (Dec. 11), with pre-market indications around $647.66 early Friday (Dec. 12). [1] The stock remains well above its spring lows but meaningfully below the $796.25 52week high, reflecting the recent push-and-pull between AI optimism and capex anxiety. [2] Below is what's moving Meta stock on 12/12/2025, including the biggest news, the latest analyst targets, and the catalysts (and risks) investors are watching into 2026. A key…...

5+ min ago (595+ words) The Evomi Scraper API addresses a common challenge faced by data driven businesses: the complexity of building and maintaining web scraping infrastructure. Instead of managing separate systems for proxies, headless browsers, and anti-bot solutions, users can now make one API call and receive clean HTML or structured data ready for immediate use. "With the Evomi Scraper API, teams don't need to juggle proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs, they just call a single endpoint and get clean, structured data back," said Pascal Mueller. "We've removed the complexity of traditional scraping infrastructure, providing developers and businesses with a one-stop solution for collecting data at scale." Comprehensive Features Set on Every Plan What distinguishes Evomi is its highly flexible infrastructure designed to scale with your project's requirements. Evomi offers a powerful suite of advanced capabilities, allowing users to leverage features like JavaScript rendering, high-performance…...

6+ min ago (182+ words) Pytest is already one of the best testing frameworks in Python'but its default output is plain, and sometimes difficult to parse when you're running a large test suite. If you've ever squinted at a wall of plain-text failures, or wished your test results had more color, structure, or interactivity" you're in the right place. In this guide, we'll explore: Whether you're a Django, FastAPI, data, or backend developer'this guide will dramatically improve your testing experience. So let's fix that. Here are the most impactful pytest plugins for improving output: Best for: developers who want maximum readability Works beautifully with Django. Ideal for long test suites. Now failures appear AS SOON AS THEY HAPPEN, not after all tests complete. Gives a super-short summary of test results. Perfect for CI dashboards. CI can attach the HTML/Markdown output. Produces a professional HTML…...

6+ min ago (893+ words) The Bureaucratic Myth: Every bureaucracy worldwide shelters a small elite of the nation's finest, most qualified, and most productive minds. Yet the sluggish culture suppresses and often crushes them. Innovative impulses are grounded by institutionalized inertia and corruption, while the giant centipede crawls, constantly seeking rocks to hide under. Colonial-era bureaucracies once blossomed; today we need streamlined, hyper-efficient ones. With artificial intelligence, this is finally possible: eliminate 90 per cent of fat and 90 per cent of cost and gain 1,000 times the speed and accuracy. Bureaucracies must evolve into super efficiency clusters under disciplined control, just like an intensive-care medical team saving a nation. No nation survives long-term without: The Anti-Job Creation Syndrome The old economic measurement system is clearly broken across nearly 100 "free" economies. There is no need to fix it, scrap it altogether. Adopt modern, AI-centric measurement systems and mandate…...

6+ min ago (193+ words) The Maharashtra government, in collaboration with Brookfield Corporation, will build Asia's biggest Global Capacity Centre (GCC) worth an investment of over $1 billion, said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at Jio World Centre on Friday. The Memorandum of Understanding for the same will be signed soon. In line with the state government's ambition to make Maharashtra the "GCC-capital," Fadnavis said the 2 million square feet GCC will employ 15,000 people directly and 30,000 people indirectly. "We have just discussed an important project to set up the biggest GCC in Asia or maybe the world in collaboration with Brookfield. The investment will be more than $1 billion. The GCC will be nearly 2 million square feet, employing 45,000 people in total. We want to make Maharashtra a GCC-capital. We will soon sign an MoU," said Fadnavis. WeWork workspace solutions company had earlier told businessline it expects India's GCC workforce…...

7+ min ago (92+ words) Tech fell behind. The Dow industrials surged a day after a Federal Reserve move viewed by some as a "dovish" rate cut. The Dow added 646 points, or 1.3%, to close at a record. The S&P 500 added just 0. Oops, something went wrong Heard on the Street Thursday Recap: Oracle's Outlook Tech fell behind. The Dow industrials surged a day after a Federal Reserve move viewed by some as a "dovish" rate cut. The Dow added 646 points, or 1.3%, to close at a record. The S&P 500 added just 0....

7+ min ago (369+ words) As AI systems evolve from single models into networks of autonomous agents, a new problem becomes increasingly visible. It is no longer only about how capable an AI model is. The deeper question is: How do multiple AI systems agree on meaning, identity, and truth across different platforms? This article shares a real-world experiment called Canonical Funnel Economy (CFE) " an attempt to design a shared meaning root and connect it to a practical go-to-market stack, using technologies that already exist today. We often talk about data pipelines, model architecture, and inference speed. But when multiple AI agents interact, something more subtle breaks first: semantic consistency. The same term, label, or concept can drift depending on: This semantic drift creates trust issues that cannot be solved by model accuracy alone. If AI systems are going to cooperate at scale, they need…...