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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Scottish Sun
Gen Z are turning to very old-fashioned favourite as modern food is too hard to cook
Nearly one in three cook classic dishes in the air fryer because it is easier and tastier BACK IN TIME Gen Z are turning to very old-fashioned favourite as modern food is too hard to cook Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) GENERATION Z are turning to old-fashioned faves like spam — because modern food is too tricky to cook. Classics including steak and kidney pie, tripe and liver and onions are also enjoying a resurgence. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Young people are now turning to old fashioned favourites like Spam Credit: Alamy One-third of the adults under 28 polled say modern dishes are too complicated to rustle up. Almost three in five often scoff canned Spam for convenience. One in ten even plate up spam fritters for their children. Spam was launched in 1937 by US food processing company Hormel and became popular during World War Two. Its main ingredients are pork shoulder and ham, and it became a part of popular culture through a Monty Python sketch which repeated its name many times — which led to it being used to refer to unsolicited emails. Spam was also parodied in the Python-based Spamalot musical. The food survey, meanwhile, also found that just over two in five Gen Z parents give their kids corned beef hash. Tripe and onions is served by 16 per cent. Nearly one in three cook classic dishes in the air fryer because it is easier and tastier, according to the survey of 2,000 Brits. By contrast, eight in ten over-60s — who grew up on food like tripe — now opt for the trendy breakfast treat avocado toast. Martin Senders of Philips, which commissioned the poll, said: 'It's great to see traditional dishes making a comeback.'
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- General
- The Irish Sun
Gen Z are turning to very old-fashioned favourite as modern food is too hard to cook
GENERATION Z are turning to old-fashioned faves like spam — because modern food is too tricky to cook. Classics including steak and kidney pie, tripe and liver and onions are also enjoying a resurgence. 1 Young people are now turning to old fashioned favourites like Spam Credit: Alamy One-third of the adults under 28 polled say modern dishes are too complicated to rustle up. Almost three in five often scoff canned Spam for convenience. One in ten even plate up spam fritters for their children. Spam was launched in 1937 by US food processing company Hormel and became popular during World War Two. Its main ingredients are pork shoulder and ham, and it became a part of popular culture through a Monty Python sketch which repeated its name many times — which led to it being used to refer to unsolicited emails. READ MORE ON GEN Z Spam was also parodied in the Python-based Spamalot musical. The food survey, meanwhile, also found that just over two in five Gen Z parents give their kids corned beef hash. Tripe and onions is served by 16 per cent. Nearly one in three cook classic dishes in the air fryer because it is easier and tastier, according to the survey of 2,000 Brits. Most read in Fabulous By contrast, eight in ten over-60s — who grew up on food like tripe — now opt for the trendy breakfast treat avocado toast. Martin Senders of Philips, which commissioned the poll, said: 'It's great to see traditional dishes making a comeback.' 1980 Spam TV ad
Techday NZ
5 days ago
- Techday NZ
Fake AI social media ads spread malware to millions globally
Mandiant Threat Defense has released research identifying a Vietnam-linked cyber campaign that exploits public interest in artificial intelligence tools by distributing malware via social media advertisements. The research traces the campaign to a group known as UNC6032, which uses paid advertisements on platforms such as Facebook and LinkedIn to draw victims toward counterfeit websites masquerading as well-known AI brands including Luma AI, Canva Dream Lab, and Kling AI. These fake advertisements redirect users to domains designed to closely resemble legitimate AI service platforms. However, instead of offering genuine AI-generated content, these fraudulent websites deliver malware. The malicious software is designed to extract sensitive information such as login credentials, credit card data, cookies, and other personal details from victims' systems. "Our research shows this campaign has already reached millions of users globally. The threat actors have cleverly leveraged the explosive interest in AI tools, combining realistic branding with paid ads on trusted platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. A well-crafted spoofed website can pose a significant risk to anyone—from consumers to enterprise users," Yash Gupta, Senior Manager at Mandiant Threat Defense, commented. Mandiant reports that the campaign was first detected in late 2024 and has since been monitored across a large number of deceptive advertisements. Mandiant analysts employed transparency resources such as Meta's Ad Library and LinkedIn's Ad Transparency Center to uncover the scale of the activity, which involved more than 30 unique fake domains promoted through thousands of social media ads. Among the findings was a sample of over 120 malicious Facebook ads whose estimated reach exceeded 2.3 million users within the European Union. The attackers ran these campaigns using both fraudulent pages that they created and compromised legitimate accounts, often limiting the lifespan of each campaign to avoid being detected and removed by the platforms' security measures. On LinkedIn, Mandiant detected approximately 10 malicious ads, including content directing users to recently registered domains such as klingxai[.]com, which first appeared in late 2024. Once directed to the spoofed websites, users download a Python-based malware referred to by Mandiant as STARKVEIL. This type of malware enables attackers to deploy multiple information stealers and backdoors on the victims' devices. The malware extracts sensitive data and communicates with operators via channels such as Telegram, facilitating exfiltration of the stolen information to attacker-controlled infrastructure. Mandiant's M-Trends 2025 report notes that compromised credentials are the second most common initial access point for cybercriminals, highlighting the broader risk posed by this type of activity to individuals and organisations alike. "A significant portion of Meta's detection and removal activity began independently in 2024, ahead of our alerts. But with new malicious ads appearing daily, ongoing cross-industry collaboration remains essential to defend users at scale," Gupta said, highlighting the efforts of social media platforms in tackling such threats ahead of external alerts. Mandiant additionally cautions that similar malicious operations are likely to be active on a range of other platforms, as cybercriminal groups continue to adapt their methods in response to detection and removal efforts. The company advises users to exercise caution by avoiding AI tool ads from unverified sources, inspecting URLs prior to downloading software, keeping antivirus and endpoint protection updated, and reporting suspicious advertisements directly to platform providers.
Forbes
31-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Sourcetable Launches AI Spreadsheets With $4.3 Million In New Funding
Australian founders. Andrew Grosser (CTO_Co-founder, Alum) and Eoin McMillan ... More (CEO_Co-founder, ANU Alum), Sourcetable. Sourcetable, an AI startup based in San Francisco, announced the launch of what it calls the world's first 'self-driving spreadsheet' this morning, alongside a $4.3 million seed round led by Bee Partners with participation from Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumond, GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, and MongoDB Distinguished Architect Roger Bamford. 'This is a GPT moment for spreadsheets,' says Sourcetable CEO and co-founder Eoin McMillan. 'The same way ChatGPT changed how we interact with search, we're changing how people interact with data.' Every day, 750 million people open a spreadsheet, but only a fraction of them know how to do anything more than add and subtract. Garage Hacking. From left, Andrew Grosser (CTO_Co-founder), David Pachla (Founding Engineer). ... More Credit, Built from the ground up with AI at its core, Sourcetable allows users to issue natural language commands—typed or spoken—to analyze data, build financial models, clean up spreadsheets, and even generate pivot tables, something McMillan says Sheets and Excel still struggle with. In autopilot mode, the AI not only interprets commands but also executes multi-step workflows, navigating between tabs, interpreting inconsistent field names, and validating its outputs in real-time. The interface looks familiar, but under the hood, Sourcetable is powered by a Python-based 'thinking machine' and a flexible AI model stack that draws on the latest from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Meta. The spreadsheet itself is XLSX-compatible, meaning Excel users can bring over their old files and instantly unlock AI capabilities—what McMillan calls 'the last spreadsheet you'll ever need.' Sourcetable gives users. the power to talk to spreadsheets. 'Most people don't know what a VLOOKUP is,' McMillan says. 'Now, they don't have to.' Instead, users can say things like, 'Show me total sales by country' or 'Clean this dataset and create a forecast chart,' and the AI handles the rest. Hands-free, voice-enabled functionality makes the experience feel less like typing formulas and more like talking to a colleague—or a data analyst. The platform is already in use by startups, academics, and small businesses. Simar Singh, co-founder of Butternut AI, uses it to streamline internal analytics. 'In the future, it's obvious that humans won't be doing spreadsheet grunt work. We defer to AI instead,' Singh says. Sourcetable didn't start with mainstream users in mind. Originally aimed at data scientists and Python power-users, the team pivoted after seeing how much demand there was from non-technical workers drowning in spreadsheet tasks. 'When we made the shift from building for the 1% to building for the 99%, engagement exploded,' McMillan recalls. Now you can talk to your spreadsheet data. Founded in 2020, Sourcetable was restructured two years later when McMillan joined forces with CTO Andrew Grosser, a longtime friend and deep learning expert. The duo saw an opening to disrupt one of the most entrenched tools in enterprise software. 'Excel built the last billion users,' McMillan says. 'We're building the spreadsheet for the next billion—both human and AI.' McMillan knows he's taking on the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft and Google, but they are burdened with legacy systems. 'We're not just a plug-in,' McMillan insists. 'We re-architected the entire spreadsheet for a world where thinking machines do the heavy lifting.' The AI assistant is free to try and $20/month for pro users. There's also a freemium tier with limited AI use. For students and academics, the product is free—an intentional move, McMillan says, to seed the next generation of analysts. Ultimately, Sourcetable's ambitions go beyond spreadsheets. The founders envision a platform for AI agents to collaborate with each other and interact with third-party systems, transforming data workflows across industries. 'If you unlock productivity in spreadsheets,' McMillan says, 'you're unlocking trillions in GDP.'
