Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps
- Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
Some news creators and journalists, who moved to Threads from X, criticize Meta after it announced it would stop recommending political content on Threads
The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday it would stop proactively …
Interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, creators of AI chatbot Goody-2, which was created as a joke and refuses to answer every query to prioritize safety
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The RBI's clampdown on Paytm has created confusion for millions of customers and raises questions about the Indian central bank's opacity and regulatory actions
Multiple Penalties, Yet Stakeholders Stunned By Paytm Bank Wreck. Why? — The financial meltdown of a digital payments pioneer …
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening the service to the public, not “enshittifying” it with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more
WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.
Vision Pro may become an iPad killer, but some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe it may take four generations for the headset to reach its full potential
Apple's Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first.
How the erosion of competition, regulation, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene”, an era defined by the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook
The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the ‘enshittocene’?
Bollegraaf, the world's biggest builder of recycling plants, partners with AI startup Greyparrot to retrofit thousands of plants with AI tools for sorting waste
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: @bollegraaf : 📣 We are partnering with @greyparrotai to transform the global waste management industry! Read the full press release here: https://www.bollegraaf....
Meta plans to not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow” on Threads, matching the company's policy on Facebook and Instagram
including this feed. … Seth Abramson / @seth.abramson : Now that Threads has announced it will throttle political content, please do, when/as possible: 1. Repost political content you find informativ...
A Canadian minister says the government plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like the Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft
🤨 — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... #security #pentesting #flipperzero #canada Matti Aleve / @maleve@zeroes.ca : Sigh where to even begin with this. — The subhead pretty much covers it thou...
Analysis: in 2023, 84.63% of TikTok videos contained music, up from 69.13% in 2019 and 83.06% in 2022, vs. 84% on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook
TikTok, the pandemic's golden child that couldn't be banned, is under fire once again. This time, Universal Music Group (UMG) …
The Fed, regulators, and others worry that stablecoins, with a total market value of $136B as of late January, could one day impact the wider financial market
The tokens connect volatile digital-asset trading to the wider financial world, raising concerns that they could one day rock traditional markets
New York Attorney General expands her October 2023 lawsuit against DCG, Genesis, and Gemini Trust, tripling the size of their alleged Gemini Earn fraud to $3B+
Claiming $3 Billion In Alleged Crypto Fraud Scheme Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : New York demands $3 billion from DCG amid expanded lawsuit Jamie Redman / Bitcoin News : Court Filing Shows Genesi...
Gemini for Android is more useful than Assistant thanks to Gmail, Maps, and Docs integration, but it's not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating
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How chiplets could let Chinese companies circumvent US sanctions; China and local VCs have focused on propping up the domestic chiplet industry in the past year
By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese companies could circumvent the sanctions set by the US government.
Samsung receives FDA authorization to add a feature to Galaxy Watch to detect “signs of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea” for users over the age of 22
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Crypto startups like Blast are offering loyalty points to lure users, without detailing the rewards; Blast has attracted $1.3B in crypto since November 2023
- Blast has lured $1.3 billion worth of crypto since November — Most programs haven't said what their points can be used for
France's privacy regulator says data on 33M+ people, about half the nation's population, was compromised in a cyberattack on two health insurance firms in Jan.
Alexander Martin / The Record :
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic
Pranav Dixit / Engadget : Threads: @thatadamguy , @fabiobracht , @paul_rietschka , @mcwm , @ezra , @crumbler , @drewharwell , and @jstaal X: @brianfagioli , @bilalbudhani , @gergelyorosz , @gergelyor...
A federal judge dismisses a case in which an imprisoned Saudi dissident and his sister, who is a US citizen, accused X of conspiring with the Saudi government
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 has “divested from all its investments in China” as it seeks to reassure the US; sources: the sell-off included shares in ByteDance
Financial Times :
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