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2023-08-21
Ellen Oscar selfie RIP?
2023-08-21 View on X
Forbes

Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter's native shortening service are broken too

Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.

2023-08-20
Ellen Oscar selfie RIP?
2023-08-20 View on X
Forbes

X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken

Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.

2023-07-03
Real pro stuff. Twitter bug causes self-DDOS, related to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits https://waxy.org/...
2023-07-03 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled  —  Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...

2023-07-02
Real pro stuff. Twitter bug causes self-DDOS, related to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits https://waxy.org/...
2023-07-02 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …

2023-05-26
Fantastic job all around https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-26 View on X
CNBC

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures

even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : De...

2023-05-25
Fantastic job all around https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-25 View on X
CNBC

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures

- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy...

2023-05-04
This interview with Geoffrey Hinton is truly 😱 It's “quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence” and “it may keep us around for a while to keep the power stations running, but after that, maybe not” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2023-05-04 View on X
Financial Times

The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition

CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT

This interview with Geoffrey Hinton is truly 😱 It's “quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence” and “it may keep us around for a while to keep the power stations running, but after that, maybe not” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2023-05-04 View on X
New York Times

The FTC Chair calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more

Lina M. Khan / New York Times :

2023-05-02
We have a new, in-depth interview with Geoffrey Hinton up today, detailing his growing concerns with AI. It's thought provoking and frankly a little unnerving. Worth a read. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2023-05-02 View on X
MIT Technology Review

A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who shares why he now thinks neural networks represent a “better form of intelligence”

“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”

2023-04-14
Honestly... this isn't a tough question! This is an easy question! This is a softball! But what an epically bad non-answer.. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-14 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions

Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?  —  It is fair to say that Substack …

The blame-the-homeless tech elites that rushed to politicize Bob Lee's murder should feel ashamed. I'm sure they won't, but they should. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-14 View on X
Mission Local

The SFPD arrested IT company owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say the two men knew each other and were driving together before the killing

2022-12-16
Seems like a good time to re-up this @ceodonovan @cwarzel and the account formerly known as @rmac18 deep cut https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2022-11-19
“instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism” Fantastic story from @strwbilly https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2022-11-19 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods

and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

2022-11-14
Aaaaaand this is the tweet that got me downloading my archive. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
@caseynewton

Sources: Twitter cut ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract staff on November 12, which is expected to significantly impact content moderation and core infrastructure

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and t...

2022-11-08
Today's Platformer is genuinely one of the craziest dailies I've ever read. It's got like six novels worth of plot crammed into a daily beat story/email. And there was a lot it didn't even get to! Cannot even imagine the mess that's coming tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-08 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US

Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

2022-10-15
I knew this story didn't have legs https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-15 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...

2022-10-14
I knew this story didn't have legs https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’

2022-09-30
Shocking. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-30 View on X
The Verge

Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned

which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases ma...

2022-08-27
*whispers* I just wanted to gchat https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
9to5Google

Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion

In an amusing turn of events today that's most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.

2022-07-11
Incredible that Twitter hasn't banned Elon like five minutes ago.
2022-07-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal

Good morning!  If you're looking to head to Bhutan anytime soon, we've got some news for you. Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : What's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter deal? Ar...