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Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…

Meta Suspends Instagram AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash
Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…

Meta Suspends Instagram AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash
Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Managed to get just a little bit ahead in my classes, so I did a small bit of work on #Sunstone today after work. The feature I just added is bookmarks in the sidebar. Works decently well so far, but I'll eventually be adding a setting to choose whether it opens bookmark links in the current tab or in a new tab (right now it defaults to a new tab). There is a history tab in the sidebar w…

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

LOL
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-discontinues-ai-image-feature-days-after-launch-2026-07-10/

An expert panel with Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, and Clara Shih discusses AI's impact on jobs and how to prepare for the future of work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magazin

In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?
A panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work.

"Increased Sightings of the Two Largest Whale Species Decimated By Hunting Provides New Hope for Survival"
#Whales #Animals

Increased Sightings of World’s Two Largest Whale Species Decimated By Hunting Provides New Hope for Survival
Increased sightings of the world's two largest whale species–the blue and fin—offers new hope for the future of the endangered ocean giants.

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/10/youtube-new-messaging-chat/

YouTube rolling out new in-app messaging with invite-only chats
After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system...

Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-form

GitHub's former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age
The developer tools startup said it's building better infrastructure for a future run by coding agents.