Omegle, a service founded in 2009 for chatting with strangers, shuts down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes”
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Katie Notopoulos / Insider : Omegle was a relic of the old internet. I'm not sad it's gone. Leo...
Copyright activists are working to wipe Books3 from the internet, which may only benefit the big companies that have already been using the AI training dataset
Because people use the term Artificial Intelligence to cover LLMs and other generative tools, they confuse the category of “people” with the category of “tools”. — I am in no way denying that someda...
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1
Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges — https://www.cnn.com/... #social #threads Bluesky: Brian Fung / @brianfung.me : Threads user engagement has fallen to new lo...
Sources: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom has had preliminary talks about becoming TikTok's new CEO
a potentially epic “chip on the shoulder” chapter for his future book... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ana Milicevic / @aexm : Ah, yes. They are required to hire a(nother) man na...
As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims, as messaging is more informal and often misinterpreted
Chat applications have become a major way employees stay connected, but some see an uptick in agitation and bullying Tweets: @carnage4life , @chrisharihar , @kantrowitz , @kpyszczyk , @jaycuthrell , @...