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Can we survive the night? Now it REALLY feels like spooky season. We’re almost there, and just in time, a scary game has dropped today! The newest addition to The Dark Pictures Anthology, House of Ashes, is ready to play. I’ve had lots of experience with scary games as well as the others in this series, so I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store for us tonight and guessing what types of scares they’ll use. I’ve stayed in the dark so I’m completely blind and haven’t even seen the trailer or anything! What better way is there to spend a chilly October night than playing spoopy games with you? Hope to see you there. Drop by Destructoid’s Twitch channel every Friday starting at 9:00 p.m. Eastern to join us. Miss last week’s stream? Catch the video-on-demand for Ori and the Blind Forest.

“It was like we could take a victory lap,” said a former employee, one of many who spoke for this story on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive matters. “There was a lot of the feeling of high-fiving in the office.”Many who had worked on the election, exhausted from months of unrelenting toil, took leaves of absence or moved on to other jobs. Facebook rolled back many of the dozens of election-season measures that it had used to suppress hateful, deceptive content. A ban the company had imposed on the original Stop the Steal group stopped short of addressing dozens of look-alikes that popped up in what an internal Facebook after-action report called “coordinated” and “meteoric” growth. Meanwhile, the company’s Civic Integrity team was largely disbanded by a management that had grown weary of the team’s criticisms of the company, according to former employees.Story continues below advertisementBut the high fives, it soon became clear, were premature.On Jan. 6, Facebook staffers expressed their horror in internal messages as they watched thousands of Trump supporters shouting “stop the steal” and bearing the symbols of QAnon — a violent ideology that had spread widely on Facebook before an eventual crackdown — thronged…

GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Privacy Notice Lacombe teen confesses to making social media threats A Lacombe teen was arrested Friday after the St. Tammany sheriff said they were notified of threats made on Snapchat. According to the sheriff, the Snapchat made a reference to a student planning to shoot up Monteleone Junior High.The STPSO School Resource Officer identified the student who made the threats and determined that the student had not shown up for school on Friday, according to the sheriff's office. Deputies found the 13-year-old at his residence where the sheriff said he confessed to making the social media threats. He was taken into custody and booked into the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center on one count of terrorizing.“We have made it very clear that law enforcement and the school system will take threats like this seriously,” Sheriff Randy Smith said in an issued statement. “We will continue to work with our schools and investigate any and all threats at our schools or to the students and faculty who attend them. Parents I urge you, to please speak with your children about the seriousness of actions such as…

Valentin Wolf / imageBROKERSnap, the parent company of social media app Snapchat, saw stock prices fall 30% on Thursday, according to Bloomberg. By Friday, mid-morning, the stock had plunged from more than $75 per share Thursday to a low of $57.46. The plunge occurred after Snapchat owner warned during the Q3 earnings report that customers are cutting back on ad spending.See: 19 Stock Perks That Will Blow Your MindFind: 7 Best Coffee StocksSnap’s earnings report fells $93 million short of expectations, according to investment website Seeking Alpha. Additionally, the company forecasted Q4 revenue growth of just 19% to 20%, which would normally be higher as companies invest in advertising for the holiday season and the high-revenue Cyber Week.Two FAANG stocks, Facebook and Alphabet, which are also ad-revenue driven services, suffered from the news, as well. Facebook stock dropped more than 6% in post-market trading, according to Bloomberg, plunging from just under $342 at market close Thursday to a low of $322.56. By mid-morning on Friday, it continued to hover in the low $320s. Meanwhile, Alphabet stock lost 2.8% in after-hours trading, dipping from $2837.34 Thursday at market close to a low for the week of $2,756.11 in the morning hours…

Snapchat’s boss sees almost £600m wiped off his fortune after shares in the social media app plunge 25% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52, 22 October 2021 | Updated: 22:44, 22 October 2021 Snapchat’s boss saw almost £600m wiped off his fortune after shares in the social media app plunged 25 per cent.  Chief executive Evan Spiegel, who co-founded the firm with software engineer Bobby Murphy in 2011 and is married to Australian model Miranda Kerr, saw the value of his 3.1 per cent stake tumble to £1.7billion from £2.3billion.  Murphy, who owns 6.3 per cent of the group, saw his own stake slashed by £1.1billion to £3.5billion.  Hit: Chief executive Evan Spiegel is married to Australian model Miranda Kerr (pictured) The share price plunge came as Spiegel warned privacy rules rolled out by Apple in June, which stop advertisers tracking iPhone users without their consent, made it ‘more difficult’ for the company to assess how ad campaigns were performing on its app.  As a result of the setbacks, the company posted revenue for its third quarter of £773m, up 57 per cent year-on-year but lower than the £797m predicted by market analysts.  Some links in this…

CNBC's Sustainable Future Forum Asia on Friday focuses on technology and innovation.The fourth industrial revolution is also going to be a green revolution. Technological advancement and innovation is promising to make our industries, lives and future more sustainable.  CNBC meets those at the forefront of research and digital development to explore how the technology works and what environmental benefits it can bring to us all.The lineup for Friday's sessions are below, and click here for the full schedule of the week.Panel: Harnessing technology for a greener future2 p.m. SGT/HK | 7 a.m. BSTJean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO of Schneider Electric, and Anish Shah, CEO and managing director of Mahindra Group.From AI to big data to electric vehicles, digitization and technology are playing a key role in our quest for a carbon-free future. Joining us to discuss how technological solutions can help businesses and governments deliver on their sustainability goals are Schneider Electric CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire and Anish Shah, CEO and managing director of the Mahindra Group.Add to calendarFireside: Smart technologies for sustainable cities2:20 p.m. SGT/HK | 7:20 a.m. BSTShaoqian Jia, CEO of Hisense Group.From creating smart, sustainable cities to producing more efficient products, consumer electronics giant Hisense is playing it's part in China's pledge…

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A protester unleashes a smoke grenade in front of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images A protester unleashes a smoke grenade in front of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, angry Donald Trump supporters on Facebook coalesced around a rallying cry now synonymous with the siege on the U.S. Capitol: "Stop the Steal." Inside Facebook, employees were watching with concern. The presidential election may have passed without major incident, but in its wake, "angry vitriol and a slew of conspiracy theories" were fomenting, Facebook staff wrote in an internal report on the Stop the Steal movement earlier this year. Supporters perpetuated the lie that the election had been stolen from then-President Donald Trump — a lie that Trump himself had been stoking for months. By the time Facebook banned the first Stop the Steal group on Nov.  » Read More

Facebook on Friday was hit with multiple reports stemming from documents provided to news outlets by Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower.The reports cite internal company research and documents that show the company is aware of many of the harms its apps and services cause but either doesn't rectify the issues or struggles to address them.According to a report from NBC, Facebook ran an experiment that showed how a new profile for a conservative mother from North Carolina began, within two days, to receive recommendations to join groups related to the far-right conspiracy group QAnon.By the summer of 2020, , the documents show, Facebook was hosting thousands of private QAnon groups and pages with millions of followers, NBC reported. Facebook has since banned QAnon groups.Bloomberg reported on documents that showed employees at Facebook expressed shock and outrage after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.With an image of himself on a screen in the background, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images"I'm struggling to match my value to my employment here," one employee…