5 times Google failed to create a killer social media platform

By 2014, Google closed Orkut’s services. The company gave a two-year grace period to export profiles, scarps, testimonials, and posts. Orkut’s downfall was largely accredited to the lack of global ... Read More

How Social Security Scams Work And How You Can Shut Them Down

If you’re a swindler, particularly in cyberspace, you know that a Social Security number is a valuable piece of information that opens the door to countless other scams. That’s why crooks of ... Read More

Your 2025 Social Security COLA Could Be Bigger Than Your 2024 Increase. Here's Why That's Bad News for Retirees.

We're still four months away from the big ... be bad news. In February, The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) estimated that the Social Security COLA in 2025 would be 1.75%. The following month ... Read More

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Google Podcasts has now shut down its web app too

Google Podcasts has shut down, and now that also applies to the web app, which lived on for an additional day or so. April 2 was the official last day of Google Podcasts, with the service to shut ... Read More

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Mar. 15, 2024 — Scientists tested several hypotheses on the drivers of social aging in free-living Assamese macaques in Thailand. The researchers collected data on the social behavior of females ... Read More

Notepad++ wants your help in "parasite website" shutdown

Notepad++, the free and open-source text and source code editor project has appealed to everyone to help shut down a lookalike ... to report the website via Google Safebrowsing's "report malicious ... Read More

Versace sample sale in NYC shut down by cops after fights break out among more than 1,000 shoppers: ‘They’re going crazy’

Cops had to shut down a Versace ... shared on social media captured the chaotic scene unfolding just after 9 a.m. at 125 W. 18th St. Robert Miller Within hours, the store’s security had to ... Read More

Social Security program failed to properly notify people of huge fines, report finds

The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog office failed to properly notify some poor and disabled Americans before levying huge fines on them ... suspended the Civil Monetary Penalty ... Read More

Israel moves to shut down Al Jazeera after new law allows for ‘security threat’ bans on international media

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network ... to a post on social media platform X following the passage of the law. Al Jazeera Media Network, which has ... Read More

Why it always feels like the government is about to shut down

But we’ve seen this movie before. The use of short-term stopgap funding bills to kick shutdown deadlines down the road, often repeatedly, has in fact become a routine part of how Congress ... Read More