2025-03-14
Tired of AI slop on Instagram? These alternative apps are for human artists only
Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words [...]
2025-03-13
Facebook, Instagram and Threads will start testing Community Notes on March 18
Meta will start testing its Community Notes model, with which it's replacing human fact checkers, on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the US on March 18. Notes won't appear publicly on pos [...]
2025-03-13
Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook
Meta has notched an early victory in its attempt to halt a surprise tell-all memoir from a former policy executive turned whistleblower. An arbitrator has sided with the social media company, saying t [...]
2025-03-13
Jeff Strain is suing investor NetEase, claiming internal gossip caused his game company to shut down
Jeff and Annie Strain, the owners of publisher Prytania Media, are suing NetEase over claims of "defamation, unfair trade practices and interference with business relations," Polygon reports [...]
2025-03-13
European cloud hosts are offering an escape from AWS, Azure, and GCP
When the modern-day internet began emerging in the early 2000s, finding hosting services and resources to run the new wave of dynamic web applications was hard. You needed a database to store applicat [...]
2025-03-13
The FCC is creating a new Council for National Security within the agency
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it's creating a new Council for National Security within the agency. The FCC's announcement doesn't go into much detail abou [...]