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Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
More: Android Authority, Gizchina, PYMNTS.com, GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, and Thurrott
X: @sundarpichai, @pratikmishra001, @lordtywin97, @electricdream42, @koltregaskes, @carnage4life, @teja2495, @diplomatic345, and @imiranna. Forums: r/singularity
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening the service to the public, not “enshittifying” it with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more — WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.
More: New York Times, The Fediverse Report, and MakeUseOf
Mastodon: @bunnyhero@mstdn.ca. Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @neilturkewitz and @knibbs. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
More: Benzinga, CryptoGlobe, and Patently Apple
Threads: @shiraovide and @kevincolliernbc
Mastodon: @Kierkegaanks@beige.party, @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, and @KimPerales@toad.social. Bluesky: @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, r/privacy, r/antiwork, r/WorkReform, and r/business
| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
A Canadian minister says the government plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like the Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft — The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.
More: Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, Government of Canada, PCMag, Government of Canada, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, and BleepingComputer
X: @fp_champagne, @mattdesl, @antonlovesdnb, @papapishu, @lizjocelyne, @_freakyclown_, @papapishu, @maxrogers5, @lintile, @hecksadecimal, @weldpond, @ianrunkle, @mcgrewsecurity, @halomancer1, @flipper_zero, @seanwrightsec, and @matthew_d_green. LinkedIn: Kamel Ghali
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/behindthebastards, r/onguardforthee, and Slashdot
| Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg: |
The RBI's clampdown on Paytm has created confusion for millions of customers and raises questions about the Indian central bank's opacity and regulatory actions — Multiple Penalties, Yet Stakeholders Stunned By Paytm Bank Wreck. Why? — The financial meltdown of a digital payments pioneer …
More: Hindustan Times, Times of India, Inc42 Media, Tech in Asia, Fortune India, and The Ken
| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic — Arc browser's new feature summarizes search results, cheating those pages' creators out of valuable web traffic.
More: Platformer. Threads: @thatadamguy, @fabiobracht, @paul_rietschka, @mcwm, @ezra, @crumbler, @drewharwell, and @jstaal
| Nicolás Rivero / Washington Post: |
Bollegraaf, the world's biggest builder of recycling plants, partners with AI startup Greyparrot to retrofit thousands of plants with AI tools for sorting waste — The world's biggest builder of recycling plants says it will retrofit thousands of waste plants with AI tools to better sort recycling
More: Bollegraaf, Greyparrot, Waste Dive, Business Wire, Circular Online, Recycling International, TechCrunch, Axios, and Apple Annie's Microblog
LinkedIn: Jürgen Geuter and Ambarish Mitra
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups like Blast are offering loyalty points to lure users, without detailing the rewards; Blast has attracted $1.3B in crypto since November 2023 — - Blast has lured $1.3 billion worth of crypto since November — Most programs haven't said what their points can be used for
More: Cryptopolitan
| Washington Post: |
Some news creators and journalists, who moved to Threads from X, criticize Meta after it announced it would stop recommending political content on Threads — The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday it would stop proactively …
More: Instagram, Mother Jones, Political Wire, Quartz, PetaPixel, and Neowin
Threads: @aaronhuertas_de, @jonasd, @goldman, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @moskov, and @taylorlorenz. Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @dead.place
X: @hashtagcpt, @ashtonpittman, and @carnage4life
| Jenny Crawford / Pex: |
Analysis: in 2023, 84.63% of TikTok videos contained music, up from 69.13% in 2019 and 83.06% in 2022, vs. 84% on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook — TikTok, the pandemic's golden child that couldn't be banned, is under fire once again. This time, Universal Music Group (UMG) … | Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
How chiplets could let Chinese companies circumvent US sanctions; China and local VCs have focused on propping up the domestic chiplet industry in the past year — By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese companies could circumvent the sanctions set by the US government.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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