Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their ...
Experts say a dashboard for managing the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal data on nearly 1B people
Spotify is slowly bringing back political ads on podcasts after pausing them in early 2020, and says it has strengthened its advertiser verification system
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol : Tweets: @issielapowsky and @karynelevy . Thanks: @karynelevy Tweets: @issielapowsky : SCOOP: Spotify is bringing political ads back after suspending th...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce...
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare
Inside Chess.com's streaming success, with Twitch users watching 18.3M hours of chess content in January, nearly as much as they consumed throughout all of 2019
Quibi says it will shut down “on or about” December 1 and does not know if its original content will be made available elsewhere after it shuts down
Quibi, a day after announcing it will shut down less than seven months after launching, told customers Thursday that it expects …
MediaRadar: Quibi spent $63M on TV, web, and print ads during its six-month lifespan, in fifth place behind other players in the streaming video category
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Profile of Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's CISO, who is working on an ambitious project to make its 150K+ employees ditch their passwords by early next year
Bret Arsenault doesn't like cheese. — But for Microsoft's chief information security officer, a distaste for dairy produce isn't born … Tweets: @karynelevy , @protocol , @william...
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB...
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools
GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
John Borthwick was one of Giphy's first believers. The company, which Facebook just bought for a reported $400 million, launched in 2013 out of Betaworks …