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...
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 ,...
[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 ...
Facebook ran an ad for 5 days from a GOP Congressional candidate that urged people to shoot “looting hoards from Atlanta”; ad removed after journalist inquiry
Whether He Likes It or Not Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg : Questioned by lawmakers from the UK's DCMS committee, Monika Bickert claims to have not seen the open letter critical of Facebook from former Faceb...
Profile of PewDiePie covering his relationships with YouTube and mainstream media, as he tries to shed his reputation as a far-right sympathizer
The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it's all a misunderstanding. Tweets: @kevinroose , @chronotope , @drb...
Profile of 50onRed, a company that bills itself as a digital advertising firm, but makes money from ad injections
Juliana Reyes / Backchannel : Tweets: @chronotope , @longform , @stevenlevy and @dangillmor . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Aram Zucker-Scharff / @chronotope : Haha, holy s**t this longform story about...
Profile of 50onRed, a company that bills itself as a digital advertising firm, but makes money from ad injections
50onRed is a fixture in Philly's tech scene. But there's something the leadership didn't talk about, even with some of its own staff. — The company seemed like the perfect place for Tyler. Tweets: ...