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Sources: Javier Guzman, a CBS Evening News senior broadcast producer, was dismissed on Jan. 7 from his position, just days into Tony Dokoupil's tenure as anchor (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/…
Sources: Javier Guzman, a CBS Evening News senior broadcast producer, was dismissed on Jan. 7 from his position, just days into Tony Dokoupil's tenure as anchor (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/…
I still am very uneasy about Netflix owning Warner Bros.
But this is quite fascinating that they will continue to license to other platforms.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/08/netflix-will-continue-licensing-warner-bros-h…
"CJEU’s Russmedia decision: how online marketplace platforms could be held liable under the #GDPR"
https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/20…
"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://
Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government's TikTok Ban
Prerana Khatiwada, Alejandro Ciuba, Aditya Nayak, Aakash Gautam, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07200
Meta Platforms zeigen mehr Werbung zu höheren Preisen
Mehr Umsatz und mehr Betriebsgewinn hat Meta Platforms im dritten Jahresquartal erzielt. Eine große US-Steuersenkung belastet den Nettogewinn.
https://www.…
'An attack on all American tech platforms': Trump admin decries EU fine on Musk's X (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/an-attack-on-all-american-tech-platforms-trump-admin-decries-eus-fine-on-musks-x-00678891
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p105#a251205p105
Unpacking Discourses on Childbirth and Parenthood in Popular Social Media Platforms Across China, Japan, and South Korea
Zheng Wei, Yunqi Li, Yucheng He, Yuelu Li, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu, Pan Hui, Muzhi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06788
"Faking Receipts with AI"
smh ... every part of our digital experience is about to be cooked.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/faking-receipts-with-ai.html
Part 2 - Summary of discussion
- @ZebKing has been chatting with Avi Lewis about a presence in the Fediverse — Mastodon.
- He requested assistance, looking for champions to bring politicians to Mastodon. Every new party leader on Mastodon is a win for digital sovereignty & an act of defence & patriotism for #Canada.
- Challenges for political parties and government officials to use #Mastodon:
1) Adoption by Canadians remains low. If a government agency researches the possible reach on the platform they will numbers rank well below other platforms.
2) Although it's getting easier, just getting started is still more difficult than alternatives.
- Suggestion for a strategy:
1) Make Mastodon a symbol that our government is reducing/eliminating reliance on U.S. controlled social media.
2) Get The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, who sets policy and guidelines on government use of social media, to add Mastodon to their policies, and potentially recommend Mastodon as the preferred platform.
China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/c…
Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…
Diffusing Trajectory Optimization Problems for Recovery During Multi-Finger Manipulation
Abhinav Kumar, Fan Yang, Sergio Aguilera Marinovic, Soshi Iba, Rana Soltani Zarrin, Dmitry Berenson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07030
LLM-Driven Rubric-Based Assessment of Algebraic Competence in Multi-Stage Block Coding Tasks with Design and Field Evaluation
Yong Oh Lee, Byeonghun Bang, Sejun Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06253
Human-aligned AI Model Cards with Weighted Hierarchy Architecture
Pengyue Yang, Haolin Jin, Qingwen Zeng, Jiawen Wen, Harry Rao, Huaming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06989 ht…
Lonely Individuals Show Distinct Patterns of Social Media Engagement
Yajing Wang, Talayeh Aledavood, Juhi Kulshrestha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06733 https://
Fox is launching Fox Creator Studios to work with social content creators on multiple platforms and has made development deals with several food personalities (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/fox-creat…
»Meta Platforms kündigt 600 KI-Spezialisten:
Meta Platforms KI-Abteilung schwimmt in Geld und hat so viele Leute eingestellt, dass sie einander im Weg stehen. Jetzt müssen 600 raus.«
Künstlich ja intelligent nein und ja das ist Meta, das ihr Frazenbuch klar aufzeigt.
🤦 https://www.
"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 1650 nodes and 151766 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Tunable magnon-phonon cavity via structural phase transition
Chunli Tang, Yujie Zhu, Dayne Sasaki, Jiaxuan Wu, Harshil Goyal, Yuzan Xiong, Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, Xiang Meng, Jia-Mian Hu, Yayoi Takamura, Wei Zhang, Wencan Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06464
Simulating Topological Order on Quantum Processors
Adam Gammon-Smith, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
9 arrested in Europe in operation against fake platforms for crypto investments https://therecord.media/9-arrested-europe-crypto-platform-takedown
Sources: UEFA's next soccer broadcast rights sale could fetch £4.3B per year, up from £2.9B per year in the 2024 deal, as it targets streaming platforms (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y8njv2ylvo
Meta Platforms kündigt 600 KI-Spezialisten
Meta Platforms KI-Abteilung schwimmt in Geld und hat so viele Leute eingestellt, dass sie einander im Weg stehen. Jetzt müssen 600 raus.
https://www.heise…
NLNetLabs is sun setting their community mailing lists in favor of Discourse (which does support some email interaction).
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/introducing-the-nlnet-labs-community-forum/
One of the big netop adjacent orgs since EDUCAUSE I've se…
https://www.techmeme.com/251104/p19#a251104p19
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@BigTittyBimbo/115667885319262803
I'm ashamed that I've let corporate giants profit from my watch time on platforms like Twitch.
Even so, I keep using it because they’ve hooked me with free in-game drops yo…
Reddit and Kick among major platforms added to Australia’s world-first social media ban for children | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-reddit-kick-social-media-ban-under-16-b2858798.html
Tim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI "will be involved in nearly all future production" (Alex Forbes-Calvin/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweene
Find The Error, Eurojust-version: "The members of the network created dozens of fake cryptocurrency investment platforms that looked like legitimate websites and promised high returns."
" I'm not into astrology, but from my perspective, if the planets are going to align it’s finding as many ways to de-algo this year as possible. Everything from platforms with “like” buttons to anything Google."
amen!
via @…
@… great meeting you at #IETF124
I shared Cyd with you https://cyd.social/ and yes, wo…
Along with Spotify, The Joe Rogan Experience also topped Apple and YouTube's podcast charts in 2025, dominating all major platforms for the first time (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…
«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles
From microelectrode arrays to all-optical and multimodal neural interfaces: emerging platforms for spatiotemporal interrogation of in vitro neural circuits https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/synaptic-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2025.173…
End-of-Year Threat Intelligence Sightings Forecast
This report presents an analysis of Threat Intelligence (TI) Sightings aggregated from several key data sources, including social platforms, code repositories, and specialized TI feeds. The primary objective is to visually track historical trends per source and provide a short-term adaptive forecast for a defined period (in days).
#opensource
note: links to post of #ice shooting video.
As horrid, tragic, and fascist as this day's news has been... the one bright spot around here is that people are learning about why federated, peer distributed, and non-corporate platforms are essential for our democracy.
We used to all* believe that this was what made the corporate platforms special, but that was just a fake, a feint, and ultimately, a fascism.
sharing this video is democracy, freedom,
resistance.
Spread the word! The #SocialWeb will fight this tyranny!
*tbf: some folks saw the writing on the wall better and a lot earlier than the rest of us. Respect to them.
#peertube #usa #cdnpoli #canpoli #theAmericanFascist #ice #minnessota #fascism #ediverse #socialweb
cc: to some pioneer politicians on Fedi. @… @… @robbotteril@socialbc.ca @… @… https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115856612394163845
I made a small thing. Just a little automated masto account @… to track updates to 7-Zip and RAR (WinRAR).
Why!? 🤔 These types of archiving tools are very handy but have been known to have security issues (both had exploits last year). Plus they don't always provide automatic update mechanisms on most platforms. 😉
It …
Ubuntu Touch is an important project for a freer future for mobile platforms, but current alternative operating systems are simpler to use at the moment.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-ubuntu-touch-on-a-pixel-3a-phone/
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comNot that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting:
In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get off US big tech platforms.
Here's their English website:
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/
Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…
SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/meta-escapes-cfpb-probe-into-financial-se…
RE: https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/115819500905513985
Worth translating. The Danes are planning to move off of US tech bro platforms.
Interesting podcast about how the dating app grindr shared sensitive data on their users, I have only found rhe link to apple podcast but should be available on other platforms. #hackedpodcast #gayborhood
NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills
#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…
I started building an application to schedule posts across multiple social media platforms. Details are irrelevant to this post. Suffice to say, modules are running in a #Docker container on my #SynologyNAS at home. It’s access it when I’m at home. However, I’ll soon travel to Australia for weeks, and …
For those of you who are wondering where I have been, as I barely get any sort of attention on my artwork when I post, I have decided to focus my attention on bluesky instead.
I know, I know, Mastodon and the fediverse are meant to be unshackled and FOSS platforms, but I honestly need the engagement in order to increase the chances of receiving commissions, especially since I'm no longer getting food money from the government.
#LB "When users are free from enshittification and can themselves control the platform’s algorithms, as they can on platforms like Bluesky, scientists get more engagement". O mínimo que eu esperava de um artigo da @… era citar o mastodon nominalmente e não uma plata…
🕶️ Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
#vr
Responding to hate-speech on hate platforms is futile. Even posting such responses on platforms such as X, however tempting it may be, is lending support to them and amounts to collaboration with the haters.
https://www.
Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…
Nathan FIllion & Alan Tudyk were once spacemen. Since co-starring on #Firefly, they have also been aliens, mystery writers, veterinarians, superheroes, chickens, robots & policemen.
▶️ Once We Were Spaceman Podcast - feat. #NathanFillion &
Österreichs Höchstgericht verbietet Meta Platforms' Geschäftsmodell
Nach 11 Jahren steht fest: Meta Platforms personalisierte Werbung ist unzulässig, Datensammlung auf Drittseiten ebenso. Metas Auskünfte sind viel zu bescheiden.
An MPA report forecasts total screen revenue across Asia Pacific rising from $171B in 2025 to $196B by 2030; premium VOD is expected to rise by $12.5B to $52B (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…
I spent the last year migrating off of US billionaire controlled platforms and services. But there's very few clean ways and I am not 100% happy with all solutions. Might still make sense to make a short post on what I went for and why
Today is the first day Californians can use a legislatively mandated platform to request that online platforms delete their data.
https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-drop-and-the-delete-act/
Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
https://www.
Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B is held on DeFi protocols (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70faf2ae-8279-49cd-97c1-20654d935be8
The Fascist regime has shot an innocent person in her car as she was backing away and appeared to be leaving.
The video of the incident is being censored and removed from many platforms.
Now is the time for decentralized video services.
#PeerTube #Spectra #Video #Democracy
https://spectra.video/w/prG3ByddFSwWBkCRt9hKyB
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 3870 nodes and 469544 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into the Trump Administration’s
use of private platforms like
Truth Social and X for official business.
https://meidasnews.com…
Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…
European law enforcement arrests nine suspects involved in an alleged crypto fraud ring that stole €600M via fake investment platforms promising high returns (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Mittwoch: Freifahrtschein für Meta Platforms, Microsoft mit neuen KI-Agenten
Meta ohne Monopolstellung Microsofts überwachte KI-Agenten Kommentar zum Cloudflare-Ausfall Souveränitätsgipfel in Berlin Bit-Rauschen zum P4-Jubiläum
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-
Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/chic…
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…
How newsletter platforms attracted a wave of writers, comedians, publications, and brands, as publishers and creators relied less on Facebook and Google traffic (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-yea
Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
Comcast's board approves the spinoff of Comcast's cable TV networks and their digital platforms to create Versant Media Group, trading as VSNT as of January 5 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/comcast-board-approv…
Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)
How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends
Google says it is working on a fix to combat the rise of spam sites in its Discover feed in the UK as fake AI-generated news stories gain visibility in the feed (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promi…
Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be "booted off" the platforms in time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/…
An interview with the team behind the News Creator Corps, whose fellowship provides 20 news influencers with journalism training and a $5K stipend (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/a-new-fellowship-is-all-about-putt…
EU lawmakers agree on new rules that hold platforms like Meta and TikTok liable for financial scams that have been reported, requiring them to compensate banks (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-giants-meta-tik…
Patron-supported journalism, including newsletters on platforms like Patreon and Substack, offers only a precarious income for many journalists (Ana Marie Cox/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-can…
Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX, AI agents that can be deployed across various security vendor platforms to automate cybersecurity actions (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/palo-alto-networks-debuts-new-tk-agent-to-fight-…
Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/clover-security-funding-wiz-crowdstrike-no…
Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (Davis Janowski/WealthManagement.com)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/advisor-s