The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so, The mods of r/IAmA are stepping back (www.theverge.com)
Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com
how to block meta from mastodon (lemmy.world)
mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/110586193055950459
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)
Twitter's API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter's new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for...
Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation again (techcrunch.com)
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup.
BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance (social.bbc)
Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen — ‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’ (www.theverge.com)
Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)
The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.
Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.
Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko (asumetech.com)
A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform (www.engadget.com)
A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company's controversial API changes..
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time (www.theatlantic.com)
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.
Twitter seems to ban all Threads links to reaffirm its position as a “free speech absolutist” platform (www.theverge.com)
A search for Threads content on Twitter currently brings up zero results, despite plenty of links to Meta’s microblogging rival being posted on the platform.
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (jogblog.substack.com)
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
