Vimeo hit by layoffs after acquisition

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Once upon a time, there was an online video platform called Vimeo that internet users knew as the high-brow alternative to YouTube. If YouTube was known for its vloggers and amateur comedy skits, Vimeo was known as the place for well-produced short films by actual indie filmmakers. It had its own version of YouTube Premium, produced its own originals, and even received an Emmy nomination.

While

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Meta is temporarily pulling teens' access from its AI chatbot characters

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Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be "temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters globally."

The pause comes months after Meta had said it was working on chatbot-focused parental controls following reports that some of Meta's character chatbots had engaged in sexual conversations an

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Do you have one of these 17 browser extensions? They could be tracking your browsing history.

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You might have a dangerous browser extension monitoring your browser history and not even know it.

As the good folks at Lifehacker reported, cybersecurity researchers with LayerX identified 17 malicious browser extensions across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, with some active for up to five years. (Disclosure: Lifehacker is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.) These malware

Renaissance, Schonfeld, and Engineers Gate stung in a shaky start for quants in 2026

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An Indian broker reacts while trading at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, January 22, 2008. Shares from Sydney to London sank for a second day on Tuesday, dragging commodity prices with them and promising similar falls for Wall Street as investors abandoned assets exposed to the risk of a global economic slowdown.

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  • Quant funds have had a tough start to the year.
  • The average quant
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'High School Musical' at 20: How Kenny Ortega made a musical on a shoestring budget — and turned it into a multibillion-dollar franchise

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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens as Troy and Gabriella in "High School Musical."

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  • For the 20th anniversary of "High School Musical," Business Insider spoke to director Kenny Ortega.
  • Ortega revealed how the cast's tight-knit relationships behind the scenes helped shape the movie.
  • Though he's not attached to a fourth movie, Ortega said he'd be open to getting the cast and crew back together.

Do you

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Trump Wrecked Climate Policy in a Year. Can We Ever Go Back?

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Trump’s attacks on bedrock environmental and climate laws are inherently fragile—and could reflect the president’s preference for political dominance over lasting change.

What we know about who's buying TikTok's US business

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Oracle's Larry Ellison, TikTok's Shou Chew, and Michael Dell.
Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison, TikTok's CEO Shou Chew, and Michael Dell.

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  • TikTok's owner has closed a deal to sell a portion of its US assets to a consortium of investors.
  • Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX combined will own 45% of the new joint venture.
  • ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, will maintain a 19
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