Facebook and Instagram users to pay for key feature under new verification plans

Facebook and Instagram users will soon be able to pay to have their posts boosted with a new paid-for 'blue tick' system - just like the kind Elon Musk introduced at Twitter in November.

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Arthritis Pill Now Helps Regrow Hair in Alopecia

Here's a drug repurposing story that actually has real numbers behind it. Upadacitinib , a pill already prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis, just showed it can help regrow hair in people with alopecia areata, the autoimmune condition that causes round, sudden bald patches. The drug works by blocking JAK enzymes, which are part of the signaling pathways that drive immune responses. That's the same mechanism that calms joint inflammation in arthritis, and it turns out it also seems to calm whatever's attacking the hair follicles in alopecia. Two Phase III trials, nearly 1,400 people total, looked at how many patients regrew enough hair to cover at least 80% of their scalp after 24 weeks. On the 15 mg dose, close to half got there. On the 30 mg dose, it was over 54%. The placebo group? Only about 2%. That's not a small gap, that's the kind of separation that makes a drug worth watching. What stood out to me is the timeline, people started seeing improvement as e...
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Browser Extensions Can Steal Everything

Do you know a browser extension can basically steal everything going on in your browser? Honestly, most of us just click “Allow” when the permission popup shows up. We want the tool to work. But with the right (or wrong) permissions, a malicious extension can do a lot more than it claims. It can read every page you visit in real time. Banking sites, email, documents, whatever’s open. It can grab your session cookies — those little tokens that keep you logged in — so the attacker gets in as you without needing your password. It can log every keystroke you type. It can inject code into pages you’re already on, change what you see, or drop a fake payment field on a checkout page. It can even route your traffic through someone else’s server or quietly record conversations you have with AI chatbots. This isn’t theoretical. In April 2026 researchers found 108 malicious Chrome extensions. Telegram tools, video helpers, productivity add-ons — about 20,000 downloads total, all sending dat...
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AI Companies Are Adding Watermarks to Generated Content, take note

AI companies are quietly adding watermarks to the stuff their models generate. Anthropic detailed how Claude will do it. New models from August 2, 2026 onward embed an invisible watermark straight into the text. You can’t see it, it doesn’t mess with the quality, and it usually survives copy-paste plus light editing. Images and other files get signed C2PA metadata so you can check the origin. Google’s been at this for a while with SynthID. It watermarks Gemini text by subtly shifting token probabilities and does the same across every frame of Veo videos. Same idea machine-readable signal that doesn’t ruin the output. Both moves are partly driven by the EU AI Act rules that kicked in. The marks aren’t perfect (heavy rewriting can kill them), but at least the big labs are starting to leave fingerprints on what they produce. Feels like this is becoming the new normal. Sources: Claude Help Center - How Claude marks AI-generated content Google DeepMind - Watermarking AI-generate...
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