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Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook, meaning those that repeatedly reuse someone else’s text, photos, or videos. This year, Meta has already taken down around 10 million profiles that were impersonating large content creators, it said. Plus, it has taken action against 500,000 accounts that were engaged in “spammy behavior or fake engagement.” Those actions have included things like demoting the accounts’ comments and reducing the distribution of their content to prevent the accounts from monetizing. The update from Meta follows only days after YouTube said…

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Rome CNN  —  A 46-year-old American man accused of the murders of a 29-year-old woman and her baby has faced a preliminary legal hearing in Rome after being extradited to Italy. The California native, named in an international arrest warrant and by Italian police as Francis Kaufmann, was extradited from Greece over the weekend. Italian police say he previously used an authentic US passport in the name of Rexal Ford and an Italian identity card in the name of Matteo Capozzi. The preliminary hearing took place in Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Tuesday. According to the Rome prosecutor’s office, Kaufmann exercised…

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Aurora Expeditions is allowing adventurous travelers to explore the wonders of Antarctica with an exclusive limited-time offer.Travelers can save up to 40 percent on select 2025-2026 Antarctica voyages exploring wildlife havens and seldom-visited volcanic islands, such as South Georgia & Antarctic Odyssey featuring the South Sandwich Islands or navigate by Zodiac among towering glaciers and through pack ice on Antarctic Explorer. To maximize time on land, Aurora Expeditions is offering Across the Antarctic Circle: Fly the Drake, with the chance to skip the Drake Passage altogether. Travelers seeking the ultimate polar adventure can follow in the footsteps of legendary explorers on Epic Antarctica:…

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Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller has already locked in $355 million for his new VC firm, Evantic, which is also backed by Sequoia, TechCrunch learned. Last December, Miller announced his departure from Sequoia after 12 years to “start [his] own fund focused on the great founders of Europe.”  Despite the European focus, TechCrunch’s understanding is that Evantic will actually invest on both sides of the Atlantic, with a focus on B2B companies at the Series B and growth stages. However, its activities will be conducted from London, where Miller moved from California in 2021. Before moving to the U.K., Miller…

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POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A mosaic panel on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of Pompeii on Tuesday, after being stolen by a Nazi German captain during World War II.The artwork was repatriated from Germany through diplomatic channels, arranged by the Italian Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, after having been returned from the heirs of the last owner, a deceased German citizen.The owner had received the mosaic as a gift from a Wehrmacht captain, assigned to the military supply chain in Italy during the war.The mosaic — dating between mid- to…

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Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSiriusXM, the audio entertainment company that’s long been known as a commercial-free option for in-car radios, is betting on advertising to propel its business.On Tuesday the company launched its first ad-supported subscription plan for car listening called SiriusXM Play. It’s a cheaper option than its long-standing offering and will cost less than $7 each month for in-car and streaming. It features a limited set of commercials on a subset of its music, sports, news and talk show offerings, the company said.SiriusXM is looking to advertising in a similar way as its…

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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 1:20 PM ET, Mon July 14, 2025 Explora Journeys is celebrating three major construction milestones.The cruise line hosted a festive event at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente Shipyard in Genoa, Italy, to mark the float out of EXPLORA III and the steel cutting for EXPLORA V. Caroline Cooney-Hurrell, customer journey strategist at Explora Journeys, was also honored as godmother during the traditional coin ceremony of EXPLORA IV “This triple celebration reflects the strength of our vision and the power of collaboration between our team, our partners at Fincantieri and the unwavering support of the Aponte-Vago family,” says…

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Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times.  Sources told The Times that Meta had completed training on Behemoth, but delayed its release due to underwhelming internal performance. When the new Superintelligence Lab launched, testing on the model reportedly halted.  The discussions are just that — discussions. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would still need to sign off on any changes, and a company spokesperson told TechCrunch that Meta’s position on open source AI is “unchanged.” “We plan to…

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CNN  —  A Russian woman and her two young daughters were found living in a cave deep in the forests of southern India years after her travel documents expired, according to local authorities. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found while inspectors were patrolling Ramatirtha Hill – a landslide-prone tourist site on the coast of southern Karnataka state – on July 9, according to a release issued by the office of local police superintendent M Narayana. They had lived in the cave for years, police said, adding that the mother’s visa…

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Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for a new fund called GPx, three people familiar with their strategy told TechCrunch. A portion of GPx’s fund will likely come from Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel, these people said. GPx uses a two-pronged strategy. The firm will invest approximately 20% of the capital into funds managed by emerging VCs who are targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups; the remaining capital will go toward partnering with emerging managers on leading later-stage investments (most likely at Series B) of their…

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