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Techmeme 4 months ago
Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
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Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.
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Google plans to begin verifying the identities of developers who distribute Android apps, even outside the Play Store, rolling out in phases from September 2026
By Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 4 months ago
Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-third-political-party-69bf9bd8?st=FJHnkY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies
By Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 4 months ago
Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code "continuously in the background" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users | TechCrunch
The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic&#039;s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100- and $200-per-mon...
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Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code &ldquo;continuously in the background&rdquo;
By Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 8 months ago
OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired)
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OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company’...
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OpenAI starts rolling out product recommendations in ChatGPT, including Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants
By Reece Rogers / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Elon Musk boosts a post disparaging the abilities of "women and low T men", advocating for a "Republic of high status males", and mentioning a "Reich effect" (Ellsworth Toohey/Boing Boing)
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Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking
Elon Musk promotes sexist &#039;alpha male&#039; theory. Dive into the backlash and the bizarre claims in the original 4chan post.
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Elon Musk boosts a post that disparages the abilities of &ldquo;women and low T men&rdquo;, advocates a &ldquo;Republic of high status males&rdquo;, and mentions a &ldquo;Reich effect&rdquo;
By Ellsworth Toohey / Boing Boing. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members (David Gilbert/Wired)
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TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
Not only is TikTok’s algorithm promoting Neo-Nazi content, extremist organizations are also using the platform to recruit new members and encoura...
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ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members
By David Gilbert / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel des...
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A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem
From The Pragmatic Engineer. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Mastodon and Bluesky are still standing.
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Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow &ldquo;fast enough&rdquo;
By Emma Roth / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for "any robot or physical device", has raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, more (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
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Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots
Physical Intelligence is building software intended to power robots that can learn a wide range of tasks.
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Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for &ldquo;any robot or physical device&rdquo;, raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, and more
By Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around? (Published 2024)
The apps have changed our love lives, but they haven’t been able to convince enough young users to pay.
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Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their ~$4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users opt not to pay
By J. Edward Moreno / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Google updates Google Play game listings, including AI-powered FAQs and new ad formats, adds support for listing PC games, and says Play Points hit 220M members (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Google Play will show AI-powered FAQs and recent YouTube videos for games | TechCrunch
Google announced a bunch of new features for games including AI-powered FAQs and fetching the latest YouTube videos for Play Store listings, new im...
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Google updates Google Play game listings, including AI-powered FAQs and new ad formats, adds support for listing PC games, and says Play Points hit 220M members
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
Epic plans to charge non-game developers $1,850 per seat per year to use Unreal Engine in late April with version 5.4, as opposed to royalty-based game fees (Jon Porter/The Verge)
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Epic details new Unreal Engine pricing plan for non-game developers
Coming in late April with Unreal Engine 5.4.
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Epic plans to charge non-game developers $1,850 per seat per year to use Unreal Engine from late April with version 5.4, as opposed to a royalty-based game fee
By Jon Porter / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 1 year ago
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
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iOS 17.4 won&#039;t remove Home Screen web apps in the EU after all - 9to5Mac
Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union. At...
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After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won
By Chance Miller / 9to5Mac. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, with investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources: the deal values Mistral at about $2B (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round (Published 2023)
The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach c...
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Paris-based Mistral AI raised &euro;385M from a16z, Lightspeed, and others, sources say at a ~$2B valuation, and releases its open-source La plateforme model
By Cade Metz / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Amazon expands its search and discovery features, including multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Amazon updates visual search, AR search and more in challenge to Google | TechCrunch
Amazon is introducing new features that make it easier to search for products on mobile and is challenging other product search engines, like Googl...
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Amazon expands its search and discovery mobile features, like multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo
By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her (Taylor Lorenz/Rolling Stone)
Julia Allison Was the First Online Influencer and Was Vilified for It
In her book &#039;Extremely Online,&#039; journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being an influencer — and go...
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Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her
By Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021 (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/instacart-to-target-much-diminished-valuation-range-of-under-10-billion-in-ipo-45c22724?mod=followamazon
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Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at a roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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