Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues over Elon Musk's twe...
Staff memo: Reddit's CEO says “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass”, new moderation tools are vital, wearing Reddit gear in public is risky, and more
Programming note: Barring big news, Platformer will be off Thursday as I take a personal day. Matt Binder / Mashable : Reddit Blackout: CEO downplays protest. Subreddits vow to keep fighting. Emre Çit...
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. Tweets: @tikiambassador , @henryfarrell , @kevinroose , @tiagodf , @jasoncolavito , @kevino...
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @trengriffin , @tiagodf , @antonioregalado , @techreview , @ndiakopoulos , @jjaron , @niallfirth , and @ketanj0 Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriff...
A look at the April 2022 attack on the internet in France; perpetrators surgically cut “backbone cables” in three locations around Paris in around two hours
As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.Tweets:@tiagodfand@twshilohTweets:Tiago Dias /@tiagodf:At present, there's lit...
A look at attacks on internet cables in France in April 2022, when “backbone cables” were surgically cut in three locations around Paris in around two hours
As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown. Tweets: @tiagodf and @twshiloh Tweets: Tiago Dias / @tiagodf : At present, th...