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Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with AI — Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Bluesky says it can't “accommodate heads of state” as it seeks to control growth during its beta; Bluesky currently has ~60K users and a waitlist of 1.2M people — 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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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
An independent researcher's data shows that out of the ~150K Twitter Blue subscribers in November 2022, just ~68,157 were still subscribed on April 30 — The early birds cancel their subscriptions. — Twitter Blue's struggles since its launch nearly six months ago are more severe than previously revealed, new data suggests.
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating if Binance was used to let Russians skirt US sanctions, alongside a probe into its alleged use to evade sanctions on Iran — The Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. was used illegally to let Russians skirt US sanctions … | 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.| 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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| 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
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug has been fixed — Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab.
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