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FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight individuals accused of charging consumers without permission and making cancellation deliberately hard.

The order, granted at the agency’s request, came alongside a complaint filed on 17 June in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

At the centre sits Genesis Tech, which the FTC alleges operated as a single common enterprise behind a portfolio of unrelated-looking products. The roster reads like a tour of the app stores’ long tail: the fitness and nutrition apps MadMuscles, Harna, and Unimeal; the PDF editors PDF Guru and PDF Master; a fashion-advice app called Lumi; the self-help brand Wisey, which the agency says marketed courses claiming to diagnose and treat ADHD symptoms; and Nebula, a horoscope and psychic-chat app.

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'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised': US lawmakers said 2.5 million…

* Government filing triggered panic over alleged VRChat user data exposure * VRChat denies any breach, calling the notice completely fabricated and misleading * Notice claims millions of users affected through cloud system access Confusion has emerged around claims that millions of VRChat users were affected by a major data security incident after

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Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged

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Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn

AI AND ML Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions If you're exposing your agent to a strong odor, it's time to clean up your instructions. Risky or poorly structured code patterns are known as "code smells,"

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Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

AI + ML I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number) Estonia plans to allow AI agents to have their own digital identities so they can act on behalf of people in a way that can be verified and audited. The initiative,

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'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised': US lawmakers said 2.5 million…

Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged

Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn

Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs