Canada may think Bill C-18 still has more room for negotiation, based on Meta's 2021 deal with Australia, but tech platforms no longer view news as valuable
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration that started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture, decentralization making the UX worse, more
I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey - I'm just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here …
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview...
Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; all users can use an authenticator app or a physical security key
In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far …
Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; non-Blue users can use an authenticator app or physical security key
In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use …
Twitter lets US Blue subscribers tweet up to 4,000 characters; in timelines, longer tweets will be capped at 280 characters and have an option to “Show more”
need more than 280 characters to express yourself? we know that lots of you do... and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get t...
Twitter appears to have resolved an issue in Australia and New Zealand that caused downtime for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4
Zachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia :
Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta is now available on request to anyone in North America who has paid for the $15,000 feature
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Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta is now available on request to anyone in North America who has paid for the $15,000 feature
Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” Beta, which has been gradually rolling out over the past couple of years, is now available to anyone who's paid for the feature …
Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, ML, and some core engineering teams
spreading a lie that it was ‘Russian disinfo’, and thus materially interfering in a US Presidential election — have been removed. https://twitter.com/... Ryan Shattuck / @ryanmer :...
Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs
I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …
Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired
Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue
Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …
At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot, and will “probably” cost <$20K
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid “Optimus” robot that shares some AI software and sensors …
In July, Google changed how its Flights tool calculates emissions to exclude all global warming impacts except CO2, understating flight emissions by nearly half
after consultations with the airline industry. https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk tweets that all Twitter Blue subscribers “should get an authentication checkmark” and suggests the service should be ad-free with a lower price
Elon Musk suggested in a series of tweets Saturday night changes to the premium Twitter Blue service …
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years
The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends an...
Australian PM Scott Morrison proposes new defamation legislation mandating social media companies reveal the identities of anonymous online trolls or face fines
Social media companies could be forced to reveal the identities of anonymous users in an effort to crack down on online trolling …
Google and YouTube say they will prohibit ads and monetization on content that denies climate change, starting next month
Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.
Telegram says it added 70M users on Monday amid the outage of Facebook's products; Telegram recently reported passing 1B total downloads and 500M MAUs
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