Experts warn that Meta, and possibly Google, blocking trusted news outlets in Canada will worsen misinformation as the world nears a “precipice” of AI content
As it becomes increasingly difficult to trust what we read online, experts say it's critical to learn how to tell real media from fake — here's how. X: @parismarx , @libshipwreck ,...
Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug
Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets ...
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes
The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
Matt Taibbi's account, including the Twitter Files, was shadowbanned for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets in search
The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber. — Quick(ish) recap:
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details
People don't engage with content they agree with. — Getting ratioed is the way to make money, lol. Toni Aittoniemi / @gimulnautti@mastodon.green : @Techmeme “Reply now to receive...
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details
People don't engage with content they agree with. — Getting ratioed is the way to make money, lol. Toni Aittoniemi / @gimulnautti@mastodon.green : @Techmeme “Reply now to receive...
Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries
Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it's been teasing for the past year.
Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets in the coming months; Teams will use Meta's avatars
Good morning! Meta took the wraps off its Quest Pro VR headset … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Windows apps and games to Quest devices S...
Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Joe Rogan's show did little to help his metaverse pitch and suggests he may not be the best spokesperson for these efforts
Forget about the devastating reviews from the video game press, the cringe-worthy digital “selfie,” and the notable lack of legs … Tweets: @chafkin , @chafkin , @padresj , @krishol...
Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Joe Rogan's show did little to help his metaverse pitch and suggests he may not be the best spokesperson for these efforts
Forget about the devastating reviews from the video game press, the cringe-worthy digital “selfie,” and the notable lack of legs … Tweets: @chafkin , @chafkin , @padresj , @krishol...
Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022
Sales of non-fungible tokens totalled just over $1bn in June, compared with peak of $12.6bn in January
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD plans to launch a “Web 5” platform, using the Ion network, focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications
TBD, the Bitcoin-focused venture first announced last spring, unveiled an ambitious effort Friday to build a decentralized Web platform dubbed “Web 5.”
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD plans to launch a “Web 5” platform, using the Ion network, focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications
TBD, the Bitcoin-focused venture first announced last spring, unveiled an ambitious effort Friday to build a decentralized Web platform dubbed “Web 5.”
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel dismisses Meta's metaverse ambitions as “ambiguous and hypothetical” and says the word “metaverse” is never uttered in Snap's offices
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
Snap announces Pixy, a $230 mini drone that can capture 2.7K videos and 12MP photos, syncs with Snapchat, and weighs 101g, available in the US and France
in this case, a flying camera company. https://t.co/32s6rU4HKl Nilay Patel / @reckless : Is this the greatest sequence in Verge video history y/n https://twitter.com/... @vjeranpav...
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years
The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends an...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS
Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.
A look at Cardano, a controversial blockchain project led by Ethereum cofounder Charles Hoskinson that aims to build a national ID system for Ethiopia
Facebook tells employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries
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