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Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, adding more short videos, more social media posts, and AI conversations — Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo — Five years after the IOC criticised shooters. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief — Fortnite has been named as a late addition … | Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Bluesky says the social network can't “accommodate heads of state”, seeking to control its growth during its beta; Bluesky has ~60K users and 1.2M on a waitlist — Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that's emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware — Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content — From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted — The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who was awarded IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, and more — “That's always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody's ever been before." — Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence … | Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — - Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Discord plans to let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to “reduce the risk of impersonation”, as some users criticize the company's username change push — A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord. — Starting in the next couple of weeks … | Lora Kelley / New York Times: |
A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi, which has catalogued nearly 450,000 tech cuts, and Comprehensive.io, which tracks compensation in tech job posts — Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Former staff say TikTok had a dashboard of users who watch LGBTQ content; TikTok claims to have deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022, but the data remains — Company logged categories of content and users on app in effort to boost engagement; spokeswoman says TikTok has restricted access to that data
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