Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned F...
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble
OpenAI's success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …
Social media's emerging “pay-to-play” model turns functionality that users expect for free, like security, visibility, and technical support, into premium items
Yesterday, Twitter announced … Jason / JYAS : Reels did not do it, but Instagram finally made me cringe Wall Street Journal : Would You Pay for Social Media? Meta, Twitter and Snap...
Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ
Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab
Source: Meta will not publicly release the first version of its AR glasses, scheduled for 2024, to focus on its second version, unlikely to arrive for years
Meta Platforms has scaled back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years as part …
Sources: Meta is considering reducing the money it gives news outlets and focusing on news content as short videos on Facebook rather than as links to articles
which executives originally thought could help improve relationships with media orgs—as the company's priorities shift. Story w/ @jtoonkel https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Mark ...
Uber agrees to list all ~14K New York City taxis on its app, rolling out later this spring; fares will be roughly the same for taxi rides as for Uber X rides
Company that vowed to disrupt the U.S. taxi industry is now betting that traditional taxis will fuel its next wave of growth
A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem
In December, Paul went home for the holidays. Like many people, he hadn't seen his family for almost a year. Tweets: @denisechow , @nicolechilders , @kattenbarge , @nbcnewspr , @b...
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl used a Meta Quest to access VRChat, and witnessed virtual grooming, sexual material, a rape threat, and racist insults
Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised
The sale price is less than the total funding raised. — Music-annotating startup Genius Media Group Inc., a site that drew attention …
Researchers show Tesla's Autopilot can be tricked to change speeds or stop abruptly by projecting virtual road signs or people in front of it for under a second
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