Love it when malicious compliance leads to harsh punishments that give consumers what they should've had all along ❀️ RE:
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The Verge (@theverge.com)
Apple changes App Store rules to allow external purchases https://buff.ly/gV2NG3R
All roads in Big Tech always lead to more ads, and LLMs are the motherlode RE:
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Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq.com)
All roads in Big Tech always lead to more ads, and LLMs are the motherlode https://www.theverge.com/meta/659506/mark-zuckerberg-ai-facebook-ads
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Ars Technica
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
Unsurprisingly, an advertising company is finding more places to run ads.
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All roads in Big Tech always lead to more ads, and LLMs are the motherlode [Mark Zuckerberg just declared ...](
The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
The β€œinfinite creative” AI ad world is almost here.
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Two major factors holding back the Mastodon org were its lack of resources and its governance structure, impacting their velocity and decisiveness. Very happy to see that they're tackling both! RE:
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Mastodon (@mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. https://...
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"You'll be safe as long as you stay in our beautiful walled garden, no need to go to scary spaces like the open web" RE:
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nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social)
This is so damning - Apple used its copywriting prowess to make the web itself sound unsafe https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-comp...
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Game Pass is going to do wild numbers after this RE:
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Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk)
BREAKING: Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide. The Xbox Series X is going up by $100 to $599.99, the Xbo...
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"My social networks made everyone angrier at each other instead of connecting them, so now our friends can be robots instead" RE:
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Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 1...
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Ah, yes, the work of creatives being stolen to train LLMs definitely didn't require any taste, psychology, or chaos tolerance whatsoever. These are the kind of people who sit at bars and explain how VC funding is like jazz while not understanding a single thing about jazz theory. RE:
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Vikram Bath (@vikrambath.bsky.social)
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC in...
Also a hostile and political act: Canadian elections πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Okay, but they should've known that if Google bought it, they would do a bad job of baking it into Android while rebranding it to something different, then shut it down for an alternative two years later [Facebook execs worried Google ...](
The Verge
Facebook execs worried Google would buy WhatsApp and make it β€˜a cross-platform iMessage.’
Benjamin Davenport, who became part of Facebook Messenger’s founding team after his mobile messaging app Beluga was acquired, testified in a 2022...
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