An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS. X: @ashleymayer . Bluesky: @fahadhumayun.com , @t...
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and others are not showing recent Reddit results
except the ones that pay Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google...
Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+
Post article to X Post article to Facebook Copy article link Tiny : Tiny Announces Majority Acquisition of Letterboxd Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Letterboxd, Film Discussion Platform, Sells...
Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees
Yesterday Unity announced that starting next year … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Epic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support” for Apple Vision Pro Stephen Totilo / Axios : Unity rushes to cla...
Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based phone surveillance to target ads using geofences around 67 local public high schools
The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices — military recruiting at schools … Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @buddyhead , @curtismorrison , @...
The GitHub repository for Meta's open source library React is being spammed with anti-US and anti-Ukrainian comments in English and Mandarin
“False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. — Joseph Cox — The Github repository for React … Tweets: @shortformernie , @chronotope , @akryum , @monday_chen ,...
Twitter quietly updates its developer guidelines to say AMP support will be phased out by Q4; some publishers have reported months of lower Twitter referrals
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — is an open-source technology for creating fast-loading … Oliver Haslam / iMore : Twitter ditches AMP, gives people the real website on mobile Jonathan Lamont / MobileS...
California AG's case examples of CCPA enforcement seem to indicate that companies can't rely on trade groups' blanket opt-out tools not tailored to CCPA
For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state's privacy law. Tweets: @chronotope , @katekayereports , @jason_kint , @pro...
[Thread] Facebook's future prospects remain strong as the secular rise of digital advertising blunts any headwinds from regulators, Apple, critics, and others
Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert : Tweets: @mchowla , @barryschwartzbw , @chronotope , @johnhuber72 , @jongold , @pbannist , @johnkoetsier , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert ...
The time has come for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to deplatform Trump, whose continued presence is accelerating the erosion of US democracy
In December 2016, when then-President-elect Donald Trump summoned tech leaders … Wall Street Journal : ‘Trump or War’: How the Capitol Mob Mobilized on Social Media Gilad Edelman / Wired : Even Mark Z...