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Some news creators and journalists, who moved to Threads from X, criticize Meta after it announced it would stop recommending political content on Threads — The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday it would stop proactively …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic — Arc browser's new feature summarizes search results, cheating those pages' creators out of valuable web traffic.
More: Platformer. Threads: @thatadamguy, @fabiobracht, @paul_rietschka, @mcwm, @ezra, @crumbler, @drewharwell, and @jstaal
| Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups like Blast are offering loyalty points to lure users, without detailing the rewards; Blast has attracted $1.3B in crypto since November 2023 — - Blast has lured $1.3 billion worth of crypto since November — Most programs haven't said what their points can be used for
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening the service to the public, not “enshittifying” it with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more — WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.| Reuters: |
New York Attorney General expands her October 2023 lawsuit against DCG, Genesis, and Gemini Trust, tripling the size of their alleged Gemini Earn fraud to $3B+ — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday expanded her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and other cryptocurrency defendants … | Jenny Crawford / Pex: |
Analysis: in 2023, 84.63% of TikTok videos contained music, up from 69.13% in 2019 and 83.06% in 2022, vs. 84% on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook — TikTok, the pandemic's golden child that couldn't be banned, is under fire once again. This time, Universal Music Group (UMG) … | Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
A Canadian minister says the government plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like the Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft — The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
How chiplets could let Chinese companies circumvent US sanctions; China and local VCs have focused on propping up the domestic chiplet industry in the past year — By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese companies could circumvent the sanctions set by the US government.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Gemini for Android is more useful than Assistant thanks to Gmail, Maps, and Docs integration, but it's not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating — I don't know how to say this, but sometimes the emotional labor of opening another app on my phone and typing in some text is just too much.| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
Joint filing: Apple and Rivos say they reached a deal to settle Apple's 2022 lawsuit accusing the SoC startup of poaching 40+ engineers to steal trade secrets — In a joint court filing Friday, the companies told a judge they're aiming to finalize an accord that resolves their claims against each other by March 15.
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