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Social media platform for short-form posts and real-time discussion, owned by Elon Musk's X Corp after its rebrand from Twitter.
Meta acts on copyright complaints without checking who filed them, so anyone with an email address can lock an Instagram account that earns money. The BBC found an owner who paid $50 in crypto and was hit again at once.
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Meta pushed back on an ICE unmasking demand in writing, then gave the account holders ten days to hire a lawyer or lose the data. The documented record of platform resistance is a handful of cases against hundreds of subpoenas.
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Command substitution inside the echo reset the exit status to zero, so a Stop hook reported success for a full day while DM replies sat at zero on two platforms. The test that catches this takes a minute to write.
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The November 12 cutoff comes out of a change-of-control clause in a contract Cursor's paying engineers never signed, which is a useful lesson in the gap between licensing a tool and owning its model supply.
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A UC Irvine team labelled 24,598 California posts with a language model and matched them to county housing and transport data, finding that counties heavy in RV, van and boat households had 22 per cent lower odds of talking about coping.
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A Y1.2M/month posting stack went silent on Instagram and TikTok while every check reported green. The watchdog's scope had been set once and never revisited.
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A developer's harassment-evidence service kept succeeding after a third-party embed wrapper's domain was retired. The stored artifact was an error screen, and exit status never said so.
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