Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky
For You, following, or a custom one — as your default. Also making this more visible in the app. Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...
Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024
- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election
It's making the change to ensure parity among presidential candidates leading up to the 2024 election More on @axios https://www.axios.com/... Forums: r/technology : Exclusive: Met...
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election
- While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Meta plans to shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024 and replace it with Meta Content Library, available to academic and nonprofit researchers, not news outlets
CrowdTangle, a source for embarrassing articles about Facebook and Instagram, has been used to track conspiracy theories, viral content
Data from the Department of Labor shows the US IT sector grew by only 700 jobs over 2023, down from 267,000 jobs added in 2022, despite the AI boom
Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid off workers and sought to cut costs
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines
The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines
The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram
New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta's Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts.
The US DoD awards Palantir a three-year $250M R&D contract to develop AI services, building on the company's work since at least 2018 for the Army Research Lab
IBM unveils watsonx Code Assistant for IBM Z, which uses a code-generating AI model to translate COBOL code into Java, set for general availability in Q4 2023
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959.
Internal document: Meta sold 300K Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses since the September 2021 launch through February 2023, but the device only had about 27K MAUs
Company plans second generation as less than 10% of devices purchased are used monthly — The Ray-Ban smart glasses launched …
A look at a National Defense Authorization Act amendment, which if passed would forbid US government agencies from buying citizens' search histories and more
An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would forbid government entities from buying Americans' search histories, location data, and more. Bluesky: @dell.bsky.social...