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Brian Fung

@brianfung.me
9 posts
2025-01-18
Just in: TikTok says it plans to shut itself down Sunday unless Biden publicly pledges non-enforcement.  TikTok wants everyone to be sure Biden is to blame, which conveniently also curries favor with Trump.  [image]
2025-01-18 View on X
CNBC

TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement

TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …

2025-01-10
As a new Twitch streamer I've taken pains to avoid violating copyright law with the music I use, the images I show and anything else that appears on-stream.  —  Meanwhile tech giants allegedly casually use copyrighted material to train AI with barely a blink of an eye techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m... …
2025-01-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …

2025-01-05
These AI accounts are now being deleted as Meta says they were left over from a 2023 test whose results showed *nobody was interacting with the bots*  —  www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...  [images]
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
These AI accounts are now being deleted as Meta says they were left over from a 2023 test whose results showed *nobody was interacting with the bots*  —  www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...  [images]
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

2024-12-29
Trump claims to have sponsored “many H-1Bs visas on my properties,” but I just did a five-minute search on USCIS's employer data hub — covering H-1B petitions from FY2009-2024 — and I wasn't able to find Trump or his largest businesses on it. www.uscis.gov/tools/report...  [embedded post]
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Post

Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue

President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …

2024-11-13
The conflict this is going to cause with actual Cabinet heads who will want credit for gutting the bureaucracy will be... quite something  —  www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/p...
2024-11-13 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more

He's on the patio.  He's on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.

2024-03-25
Multiple users of the Affordable Connectivity Program told us that, unless Congress approves more funding by May, they'll have to choose between putting food on the table and paying for internet. tip @techmeme.com [embedded post]
2024-03-25 View on X
CNN

More than 23M US households risk losing internet access by the end of April as Congress fails to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program due to GOP opposition

2024-03-24
Multiple users of the Affordable Connectivity Program told us that, unless Congress approves more funding by May, they'll have to choose between putting food on the table and paying for internet. tip @techmeme.com [embedded post]
2024-03-24 View on X
CNN

More than 23M US households risk losing internet access by the end of April as Congress fails to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program due to GOP opposition

Every week, Cynthia George connects with her granddaughter and great-grandson on video calls.

2023-08-04
Threads user engagement has fallen to new lows, according to industry research.  DAUs are down to ~8M, an 82% drop from launch roughly a month ago, and so is average time spent (2.9 mins/day) and session count (2.6/day) https://www.cnn.com/...
2023-08-04 View on X
CNN

Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1

Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges  —  https://www.cnn.com/...  #social #threads Bluesky: Brian Fung / @brianfung.me : Threads user engagement ...