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The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

X says it has begun a "phased rollout" of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern "retrieval and ranking systems" powered by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/x-announces-a-rebuilt-ad-plat…

X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI | TechCrunch
X is rolling out a rebuilt ads platform powered by AI as it works to grow revenue again.

Begleitung am Lebensende: Palliativmedizin
#palliativ #Pflege
https://www.deutsch…

Zu Hause sterben: Warum der letzte Wunsch oft an der Realität scheitert
In Deutschland stirbt jeder zweite Mensch in Krankenhaus. Die Wunschvorstellung ist oft eine andere - wie man würdevoll zu Hause sterben kann.

Best prettig dat je nu ook in Nederland bij Google Search kunt instellen wat je nieuwsvoorkeursbronnen zijn.
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/preferred-sources-language-expansion/

Preferred Sources is now available in all languages.
Preferred Sources is now rolling out globally in all supported languages, giving users more control over the news they see on Search.

Digital Health: Diskussion um Epic Systems, offene Plattformen und weitere Wege
US-Anbieter monolithischer Software wie Epic Systems in Krankenhäusern gefährden die digitale Souveränität und drohen, zur Kostenfalle zu werden.

„Es ist widersprüchlich, ständig über die Datensammelei der Plattformen besorgt zu sein und andererseits gesetzlich festschreiben zu wollen, dass ausgerechnet die Plattformen vollständige Adress-, Namens- und Altersverzeichnisse Ihrer Nutzerinnen und Nutzer bekommen sollen.“
@… im Spiegel.

"Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher"
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/digitalarc/

Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/india…

India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order | TechCrunch
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

Digital Content Next files an amicus brief in support of Amazon's Perplexity lawsuit, saying AI agents' unregulated access to content threatens news outlets (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/u

US publishers back Amazon in AI agent access dispute with Perplexity
US news publishers have backed Amazon in its lawsuit against Perplexity, saying unauthorised AI agent access to content should be blocked.

Reddit says publishers using its Pro Tools have seen post views grow by 46%, comments by 48%, and profile views nearly double since the tool's September launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/reddit-s…

Reddit says publisher post views up 46% after Pro Tools rollout
Reddit said publisher post views have increased by nearly half in the six months since launching its Pro Tools for Publishers.