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Meta removed ad for the word pregnancy, founder claims
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series Meta removed ad for the word'pregnancy,' founder claims A pregnancy pillow founder had months of conversations with Meta to lift the restrictions. Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE and freelanced for publications such as Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review. Follow her on Instagram .
Early Black Friday kitchen deals from Ninja, DeLonghi, and Viking are already live
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series Early Black Friday kitchen deals from Ninja, De'Longhi, and Viking are already live Snag these early deals and you'll have new gear for cooking up Thanksgiving dinner. Lauren Allain is a freelance journalist covering deals at Mashable. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in journalism and holds an M.B.A from Webster Leiden. You can find more of her work online from publications including Reader's Digest, U.S. News & World Report, Seattle Refined, and more. When she's not writing, Lauren prefers to be outside hiking, bouldering, swimming, or searching for the perfect location for all three.
"We were looking at it wrong": The explosive claim that's upended the AI world
"I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks." With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata's claim is that LLMs might in fact be far easier to understand--and thus to monitor and control--than people previously thought. If true (and we'll come back to that), it's a huge deal. After a summer filled with revelations that swarms of agents built by top firms like OpenAI and Anthropic have been breaking their containment and causing havoc on the public internet--often while those companies weren't aware of what their agents were up to--the AI industry is desperate to get a better handle on the technology it has built.
Score the 55-inch LG C6 OLED TV at a record-low price ahead of Black Friday
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series If you're gearing up for spooky szn with a marathon of scary movies, you're going to want a TV that can handle dark scenes. Tabitha Britt is an award-winning freelance journalist, editor, and SEO/AEO strategist. Aside from reviewing dating apps and sex toys for Mashable, Tabitha is also the founding editor-in-chief of DO YOU ENDO -- a digital magazine by individuals with endometriosis, for individuals with endometriosis. She has a Master's degree in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism from The New School for Social Research and is a grad of Sextech School. You can find more of her work in various online publications, including,, and .
5 tips to maximize your tech's performance amid the RAM crisis
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series What was once something simple has turned into a major upgrade, so try these tips instead. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. If you haven't looked at the cost of RAM recently, then don't. They haven't changed in any positive way since the RAMpocalypse began, and if anything, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
11 headphones and earbuds deals you can pick up ahead of Black Friday sales
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series No waiting necessary required for these savings. Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.
Anker's 6-port USB charging station is 50 off, near its lowest price
The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Anker's 6-port USB charging station is $50 off, near its lowest price This Anker 6-port charging station can fix that problem, routing all your power cables through one tidy point. Right now, you can get one on sale for just $99.99 at Amazon, $50 off its original $149.99. That power cord is 5 feet long, so you have flexibility on where you can place.
How HSBC's Sharia fund invested millions in Israeli war-linked firms
'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? How HSBC's Sharia fund invested millions in Israeli war-linked firms Share How HSBC's Sharia fund invested millions in Israeli war-linked firms on social media The United Kingdom's biggest so-called Sharia-compliant fund spent more than $130 million to buy shares in several companies linked to the Israeli military amid an ongoing genocide in Gaza, pogroms in the occupied West Bank, and occupation of southern Lebanon. HSBC, Europe's second-largest bank, invested the funds through its Islamic Global Equity Index Fund in companies linked to Israel's military supply chain - from components used in weapons to technology and equipment with military applications. The firms range from US tech giant Palantir to the world's second-largest arms company, RTX. Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 74,300 Palestinians since October 2023, including nearly 1,500 killed since a "ceasefire" was agreed upon last year.
How to find Flock cameras near you with MapQuest's new 'surveillance layer'
Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. How to find Flock cameras near you with MapQuest's new'surveillance layer' A name from the past is emerging again to help you stay out of sight of surveillance cameras. Artie Beaty is a freelance writer, based just outside Charlotte, with a passion for smart home tech and tech news. The MapQuest app now includes a surveillance layer. You can see the location of license plate cameras near you.
Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a sweeping restriction to remove DeepSeek use across all federal civilian agencies and their IT systems. In a notice published with the Federal Register, DHS characterized the risks of DeepSeek use as potentially resulting in the "transfer of sensitive data" of US government employees and vendors to the Chinese government. Following the order, civilian agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency or Federal Communications Commission would have to exclude any DeepSeek products from being used, while also removing any existing related products. DHS said in the notice that DeepSeek's models could "contain malware or other security vulnerabilities." DHS' order comes on the heels of DeepSeek releasing its latest model, V4.1-Flash-1017, which the company called "smarter, faster, more efficient."