A comparison of users' personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from Apple's App Store
Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality
NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
Gemini sues DCG and its founder; Cameron Winklevoss accuses Barry Silbert of being “the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors”
- Crypto exchange Gemini sued Digital Currency Group and its founder on Friday, accusing Barry Silbert of being …
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue”
Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics … See also Mediagazer
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions
A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news
The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn't be involved in news-gathering, reporters said
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022
UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud
Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again
Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns
When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming …
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic
Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams — Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …
Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers' clips this fall, both on its mobile app
The features will arrive this fall. — It's probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are.
Meta's Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn't matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more
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With the Threads launch, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform's rollout, amid Elon Musk's Twitter chaos
The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult — Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable …
Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives
Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’ LinkedIn: Patrick Warren . Mastodon: @intelwire@...
X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout
https://www.reuters.com/... Also, I can't imagine living life this way, especially when you're so wealthy. — If he was a different person, he could be building libraries, donating funding to saving...
Ant Group is proposing to buy back up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO
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A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new $17.96/hour minimum pay for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city
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Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI's ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon's arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development
BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site's “antagonistic actions”
BotDefense claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — https://arstechnica.com/... [image] Forums: r/technews : Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit Deque...
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables
https://www.reuters.com/... [image] Twitter: @reuters : Until a US crackdown on Chinese tech companies five years ago, SubCom laid cables for telecom and tech companies worldwide, including big state...
How Telegram became a key channel for news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but its hands-off moderation turned the messaging app into a misinformation tool
Masha Borak / The Verge : Twitter: @rybar_force Twitter: @rybar_force : I spoke to The Verge about the nature of Telegram in Russia. How we manage to get information from both sides of the conflict, ...
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