Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit social media Article 687 words 14 votes
Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking New York Times staff Article 540 words 22 votes
Lawsuits against Crowdstrike begin with Delta Airlines and Crowdstrike shareholders filing suit security.cyber Article 862 words 21 votes
Wikipedia’s mobile website finally gets a dark mode — here’s how to turn it on Article 182 words 27 votes
Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it’s a social network social media Article 793 words 41 votes
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ US customers in new data breach security.cyber privacy Article 709 words 26 votes
Iceland's startup scene is punching above its weight – dodging the venture capital doldrums, Frumtak Ventures lands $87M for its fourth fund Article 635 words 5 votes
Bluesky says it will allow users to opt out of the public web interface after backlash privacy social media Article 752 words 23 votes
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android apple android Article 642 words 64 votes
US senator warns governments are spying on Apple and Google users via push notifications privacy security apple google Article 687 words 38 votes
TikTok pledges €12B European investment over ten years as work on Norwegian data center begins social media Article 286 words 6 votes
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others social media Article 1034 words 18 votes
X runs unblockable ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film social media Article 623 words 96 votes
Meta Quest 3 convinced me to love VR by downplaying the metaverse Article 714 words, published Sep 27 2023 5 votes
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform social media privacy Article 422 words 93 votes
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’ privacy Article 515 words 24 votes
In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare social media Article 1179 words, published Aug 30 2023 17 votes
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn security.cyber Article 456 words 14 votes
Microsoft lost its keys, and the US government got hacked microsoft security.cyber Article 762 words 25 votes
Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline facebook social media Article 819 words 121 votes
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines google.analytics facebook.connect Article 843 words 28 votes
Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit social media Article 437 words 20 votes
Hubble Network wants to connect a billion devices with space-based Bluetooth network Article 777 words, published May 31 2023 12 votes
Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb privacy Article 1331 words 9 votes
Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year – will sunset on May 5 as it aims to focus on music discovery Article 688 words 14 votes
Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in microsoft browsers Article 1007 words 13 votes
Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps social media Article 604 words 18 votes
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks privacy google Article 596 words 25 votes
Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside amazon Article 321 words 3 votes
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down social media facebook.messenger Article 114 words 47 votes
Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS social media ios Article 505 words 14 votes
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage internet social media Article 90 words 25 votes
Discord raises another $100M in venture capital ($480M total now) at a valuation of $7 billion Article 882 words 11 votes
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories social media Article 333 words 11 votes
Microsoft reveals Pluton, a custom security chip to be built into Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors security microsoft Article 476 words 9 votes
Helsinki rides the Slush wave toward a booming startup future – six venture capitalists share their thoughts on Finland's tech ecosystem Article 1558 words 6 votes
Adobe’s "Liquid Mode" uses AI to automatically redesign PDFs for mobile devices Article 439 words 5 votes