As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option' (techcrunch.com)
Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected (techcrunch.com)
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)
Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)
It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes....
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)
Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com)
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol (techcrunch.com)
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....
Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators (techcrunch.com)
Excellent work
Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "
Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI (techcrunch.com)
Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)
