@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-22 18:20:53
Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/yelp-buy-ai-agent-startup-300-million<…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-01-22 17:19:02
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-02-23 15:36:48
There are investigations linking specific no-name Twitter accounts with less than 30 followers as the source of Musk's and Trump's disinformed beliefs. We are able to trace Trump's conspiracy beliefs of the gold being stolen in Fort Knox to just some random account on Twitter claiming it.
Whoever runs that account has more influence than you. You don't even need Russia or China to plant disinformation on a mass-scale, apparently all it takes is some Twitter Account.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-23 13:20:00
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2025-11-24 05:35:19
Viele Accounts, die sich auf US-Politik konzentrierten und Wut provozieren wollten, haben ihren Sitz außerhalb der USA. Profile wie ULTRAMAGA🇺🇸TRUMP🇺🇸2028 wurden in Nigeria entlarvt. Ein verifizierter Account, der sich als Grenzbeauftragter Tom Homan ausgab, wurde nach Osteuropa zurückverfolgt. Und America_First0 aus Bangladesch. Ein Netzwerk von „Trump-unterstützenden unabhängigen Frauen”, die behaupteten, aus Amerika zu stammen, befand sich in Wirklichkeit in Thailand.
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-01-22 17:02:54
Digitale Unabhängigkeit endet nicht dabei, alles in Europa oder Deutschland zu hosten, sondern auch regelmäßige Sicherheitskopien zu ziehen und niemals komplett von einem einzelnen Anbieter abhängig zu sein: https://wortfilter.de/jtl-agentur-modern-solution-insolvent/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-23 22:50:21
Last month, Colleen Fagan was observing an immigration enforcement operation at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine,
when federal agents scanned her face with a smartphone and appeared to record her car license plate number.
In a social media video she recorded, Fagan can be heard asking why the agent was taking her information.
What the agent said next made the video go viral.
"Cause we have a nice little database," the masked agent said. "
🔥And…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-22 07:01:31
Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking (Garry Tan/Garry's List)
https://garryslist.org/posts/half-the-ai-agent-market-i…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-23 14:05:03
When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026,
what happened next looked familiar, at least on the surface.
Within hours, cellphone footage spread online and eyewitness accounts contradicted official statements,
while video analysts slowed the clip down frame by frame to answer a basic question:
Did she pose the threat federal officials claimed?
What’s changed since Minneapolis became a g…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-23 13:35:00
Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them
Trump is deploying some of the government’s policing agencies as an armed presidential force
— sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the Border Patrol,
the National Guard, and others
into areas he considers in need of pacification,
from Los Angeles
to Portland, Oregon,
to Minneapolis.
Many on the right are applauding the crackdown.
The turnabout highlight…
