Tootfinder

Dubai-based social media startup Hunch, which operates an anonymous polling service and claims to have 1M users across 22 Indian cities, raised a $23M Series A (Akshit Pushkarna/Inc42 Media)
https://inc42.com/buzz/social-media-platform-…

Social Media Platform Hunch Bags $23 Mn To Expand Footprint In India
Hunch has secured $23 Mn in its Series A funding round led by Alpha Wave, with participation from VC firm Hashed Emergent.

Judge Bucklo denies a motion dissolve or modify the TRO and asset freeze in one of SHEIN's #ScheduleA cases: https://storage.courtlistener.com/reca

Entering the #fediverse
"…some of the alternatives that people went to after the collapse of Twitter are these newer models where you're not investing into a #platform as such, you're investing into a handle that you can kind of take with you.
So if you spend time cultivating, say,…

Social media is more 'chaotic' and 'fragmented' than ever, so what's the future of how we live online?
If you've lived online long enough for Facebook to start dredging up embarrassing status updates from a decade ago, chances are you've picked up on a distinct vibe shift in our virtual world.

This is a good point. I’m a big proponent of *provider diversity*. Every cloud service you use should have a different login. Every piece of data you create should have an easily-accessible copy in your local file system. Everything on your computer should be backed up offsite with a separate cloud backup.
Do not put all your eggs into one cloud service basket. Do not use the same login for unrelated services. This rules out most of Apple’s cloud products for me.

“I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators”
Great interview with @…, very worthwhile and

Decoder guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future
Complexly co-founder and YouTuber Hank Green guest hosts Decoder to interview Nilay Patel on the future of the web.

Dish-owned streamer Sling TV launches a gaming platform called Arcade, free for Sling TV and Sling Freestream customers on Amazon Fire TV and Android TV (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/slin

Sling TV now lets customers play free arcade games while watching live TV content | TechCrunch
DISH-owned streaming service Sling TV announced today the launch of its new gaming platform called “Arcade,” featuring classic arcade games like Tetris, Sling TV launched its new gaming platform, “Arcade,” featuring classic arcade games like Tetris and Doodle Jump.

Happy to announce that I will be speaking at the SymfonyLive Berlin 2024 conference at the end of June about Gally, the advanced searchandising engine built on top of Symfony, API Platform, and Elasticsearch.
https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/symfony_live_berlin_2024…

SymfonyLive Berlin 2024: Gally | bitExpert
Discover Gally, an advanced searchandising engine built on top of Symfony, API Platform, and Elasticsearch. Learn how to set up and configure Gally alongside the Gally bundle for Sylius in this presentation at SymfonyLive Berlin 2024.

Hahaha, mein Kommentar „🐑“ auf TikTok unter einem AfD-Kommentar wurde wegen Verstößen gegen die TOS gelöscht 🤡

Back in 2011 I thought maybe using Social Networking tools for servers isn't a bad idea - tagged events etc. interested people can sign up and follow subsets of machines etc.
Trying this again with Mastodon and this fairly cool notification tool called Apprise https://github.com/caronc/apprise

🔴 Up on Twitch at #boost

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Denver-based Todyl, a networking and cybersecurity startup focused on SMBs, raised a $50M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $83.8M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/07/ne

Networking and cybersecurity startup Todyl raises $50M for all-in-one modular platform - SiliconANGLE
Networking and cybersecurity startup Todyl raises $50M for all-in-one modular platform - SiliconANGLE

A British Bank Holiday

I doubt that there is any other set of vehicles in history that were so disdained that they are called by their manufacturing platform name, rather than the actual model names or just “undistinguished sedan.”
(Note that Yugo only really had 1 model, so it does not count.) https://press.coop/@CBCNews/1122243550…

CBC News :press: (@CBCNews@press.coop)
2 strangers, an act of kindness and a reunion 3 decades later When Jesse Stewart's K-car broke down in Toronto 30 years ago, Darrell Leon was there to earn his stripes and save the day. The two were finally reunited on CBC's All In A Day. #press https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/two-strangers-reunite-decades-later-1.7162350?cmp=rss&utm_source=press.coop

I remember people rejoicing at #StackOverflow recently banning LLM-generated answers and sample code from the platform with the thought that this was a welcome hardline anti-AI stance.
I can’t say I told you so, but my thought at the time was that this wasn’t an anti-AI stance at all but was to ensure their site’s text content would serve as high-quality *human generated* material to…

In about Half an Hour it's Saturday with the Friendos!
Join me, Ray, Queex, and Keira for Worms W.M.D.
#SelfPromotion

Anyone need a T-Head core info decoder? ✨👩‍💻✨
They have a special CSR providing detailed information. 🧐
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/thead_cpuinfo

GitHub - platform-system-interface/thead_cpuinfo: Decode CPU information for T-Head RISC-V cores
Decode CPU information for T-Head RISC-V cores. Contribute to platform-system-interface/thead_cpuinfo development by creating an account on GitHub.

#BikeStreak, Day 34: Mostly #quaxing, especially doing groceries. Not many kilometers yet (1.75km), but many kilograms: Frontbag 14kg, rear bag 10kg (beverages), #Brompton with

Wo wirft man eigentlich heutzutage so Codesnippets hin wenn man keine Bock mehr auf GitHub Gists hat?
Hatte schon überlegt sie einfach ins Blog zu werfen, aber vielleicht gibt es ja ne andere coole Platform wo ich so mein gebastelten Discord Bot, meine PyMovie Skripte oder einfach nur regelmäßige verwendete ffmpeg commandlines hinwerfen kann damit sie vielleicht anderen helfen oder mir Verbesserungsvorschläge geben kann?

Love & Guts
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Love & Guts | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Love & Guts Host: Lynda Griparic Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Alternative & Complementary Health First Episode: 2018 This platform is designed to speak to those who value living a…

En gång i tiden var skinheads någonting som inte alls förknippades med rasism eller nazism. De var vänster och arbetarklass. Den här är från den tiden https://songwhip.com/symarip/these-boots-are-made-for-walking

Lange og dype tunneler innebærer risiko vi knapt kan forestille oss https://www.e-pages.dk/aftenposten/91882/article/1981584/34/1/render/?token=778a34b8db41d7…

Another day, another person barely caught the train on #Poznań Główny station, because of the useless platform numbers and confusing markings.
The "new" train station features two adjacent doors, leading to the same staircase. Above one of them, the label says "platform 3". Above the other, it says "platform 4". How this can be anything but confusing? The most logical (and incorrect) conclusion is that one track belongs to platform 3, while the other to platform 4.
#rail

"That’s not verification. It’s also not valuable. It’s just designed to hide Musk’s incompetence in managing the platform, while (once again) undermining the whole “pay me for this site I’m making worse day by day” business model that #Musk keeps pushing."
#bluecheck

Elon Recreates The Lords & Peasants Bluecheck System He Hated, But Makes Sure It’s Even Dumber
There is something amazingly humorous in watching Elon Musk work his way ass-backwards and blindly to recreating (but much worse) the mostly-functional systems he destroyed blindly upon taking over…

I see that OASIS have rolled out a new web platform for technical committees to use.

Take California by Propellerheads
https://songwhip.com/propellerheads/take-california1998

Take California by Propellerheads
Listen to "Take California" by Propellerheads on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip

News sites are closing due to the collapse of programmatic ad revenue; a case study of Talking Points Memo shows how subscriptions kept the site in business (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-is-your-news-s…

Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?
Over the years I've written about structural problems in the digital news industry, often driven by the growth of platform monopolies and other issues. Just in the last few months and even in the last…

An interview with Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora's chatbot platform Poe, Quora's relationship with OpenAI, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/adam-dangelo-quora-poe-open-ai/…

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe, and why OpenAI is not a competitor | TechCrunch
Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo talks about the challenges and opportunities in AI today, how to build and support a developer community, and more.

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
htt…

De onzin van peilingen kort na verkiezingen #podcast #decorrespondent #politiek

Jesse Frederik - Peilingen na verkiezingen: zonde van de zendtijd
Listen to this episode from De Correspondent on Spotify. De kiezer heeft gesproken, maar tegen de peilers praat-ie alweer vrolijk verder. Handig om praatprogramma’s mee te vullen. Maar wat zegt het ons dat de PVV volgens de laatste peiling alweer op winst staat? Vrijwel niks. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/15152/peilingen-na-verkiezingen-zonde-van-de-zendtijd
 Wil je vrijblijvend kennismaken met ons journalistieke platform? Schrijf je in voor de proefmail en ontvang gr…

Independent news.
‘Bolta Hindustan’ YouTube channel removed on Union govt’s orders
https://maktoobmedia.com/elections-2024/bolta-hindustan-youtube-channel-removed-on-union-govts-orders/

‘Bolta Hindustan’ YouTube channel removed on Union govt’s orders
The YouTube channel of Bolta Hindustan, an independent Hindi news portal, was removed from the Google-owned platform on Thursday at the behest of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

#SXSWEDU, the conference & festival in Austin, Texas, dedicated to the future of #Education & #Learning served as the perfect platform to test the capabilities of

GÉANT at SXSW EDU 2024: eduMEET v4 demos and new trends in education | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Words: Leonardo Marino and Silvia Fiore The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival, described by one of the participants as a “patchwork quilt of needs and ways that they can be met”, brings together educators, researchers, policymakers, and innovators from various fields in a vibrant and dynamic event focused on the future of education and learning.

>BG3
>God of death: "You have slain my chosen"
>Me: "Well... No, not really... He threw himself off the platform to summon you, so technically wasn't me?"

A British Bank Holiday

Join #DemCast social storm to celebrate the jobs report!
#DemsDeliveredOnJobs
Toolkit https://

Hey all my #FOSS & #OpenSource folks, do any of you know any platforms like Open Collective except for the option to make the Collective private for members only? https://

Raise and spend money with full transparency.
Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. What do you want to do?

In about 15 minutes (14:30 BST) we're really going to solve the mystery of The Carpenters
It's Return of the Obra Dinn!
Join me #SelfPromotion

Cloud security startup Wiz raised a $1B Series E co-led by a16z, Lightspeed, and Thrive at a $12B valuation, and plans to expand its business via acquisitions (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/wiz-raises-1…

Wiz raises $1B at a $12B valuation to expand its cloud security platform through acquisitions | TechCrunch
Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO. Now,

"He is mandated to compile and share the achievements of the Islamic Revolution in culture, science, and art on his internet platform. Furthermore, he is required to prepare a summary of two books regarding women’s status in Islam, produce a song addressing “USA’s atrocities against humanity,” collect cases of human rights violations by U.S. governments over the past century, and participate in behavior and knowledge skills training courses in the field of art."

'Like a stalker': Data broker LiveRamp reported to the UK, French regulators
LiveRamp operates a massive identity surveillance system that ties perople's online and offline activity to a single personal identifier
Thanks to @…

'Like a stalker': Data broker LiveRamp reported to the UK, French regulators
LiveRamp is a cloud data platform company based in San Francisco. Previously known as Acxiom Corporation, it is "the industry's only interoperable platform for data collaboration across all cloud, walled garden, and media platforms," according to its website, which also says it helps customers maintain "compliance with the ePrivacy Directive, GDPR, CCPA, and other data protection and privacy laws."

Also, let me share a helpful #FediTips with all of you.
Instead of making a post and asking "Is Facebook/Instagram/Threads down?", simply click the link below and search for your platform of choice and it will provide the answer for you.
https:/…

«Fundamentale pedagogiske prinsipper og elevers krav på læring må ikke ofres på teknologifanatikernes premisser.»
💯
Oslo-skolen bŸr kaste ut ChatGPT! https://www.e-pages.dk/afte…

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Bloomberg: Russia uses TikTok content to undermine Ukrainian leadership, Kyiv says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/bloomberg-russia-uses.html

#RussianActiveMeasures
Since a few days, I'm getting multiple nonsequitur responses advertising the Russian anti-Paris-Olympics games on Twitter. A massive influence information.
Musk is incapable respectively unwilling to control his deteriorating platform.

I just want to say that after a social media platform with just Gargon cat and few other topics we reached a state where interesting conversations happen, we have news and even some governments.
We should send Elon some thank you card or something.

I kinda hate the fact that a lot of devs of this wonderful platform keep trying to change our unique name. We're called Fediverse for a reason, we want to be a federated universe. It's also just "more fun" to say than "Open Social Web"😴
Can we NOT try to change things that aren't broken? That'd be GREAT!
Thanks for coming to my FED Talk.
#Fediverse

Cross-Platform-Programmierung mit .NET MAUI
In fünf Webinaren vom 23. Mai bis 27. Juni 2024 lernen Developer die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten moderner App-Entwicklung mit .NET MAUI kennen.
https://www.

"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation…

Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation
MIT researchers built a prototype social media platform to study the effects of giving users more agency to assess content for accuracy and control the posts they see based on accuracy assessments from others. Users were able to make accurate assessments, despite having no prior training, and they valued and utilized the assessment and filtering tools they designed.

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

Mastodon und das Finanzamt, "die Jugend" und die AfD, der Datenverkehr im Netz, das zu Hühnerbatterien verkommen ist gemixt mit Windkraft und Karl Lauterbach, Themen meiner #Wochenschau.
#Mastodon #Finanzamt

Das Finanzamt, die neue Jugendstudie und das Netz als Hühnerbatterie vollgedröhnt mit Bots und KI
Mastodon und das Finanzamt, „die Jugend“ und die AfD, der Datenverkehr im Netz, das zu Hühnerbatterien verkommen ist gemixt mit Windkraft und Karl Lauterbach, Themen meiner Wochenschau.…

TikTok sues US to block law that could ban the social media platform (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-3b4c1fa44c89d4568d26f1c7caf303ec
http://www.memeorandum.com/240507/p45#a240507p45

In a change to our regularly scheduled programming, in about half an hour (18:00 GMT) we're going to keep playing Murder Guess Who
It's The Return of the Obra Dinn!
Join me https://twitch.tv/djnrrd

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

My daughter decided to surprise me and came sliding into the kitchen with my Eyehategod tee and a metal pose. Love her. Soundtrack to image https://songwhip.com/eyehategod/take-as-needed-for-pain-remastered-reissue-bonus-tracks

De onzin van peilingen kort na verkiezingen #podcast #decorrespondent #politiek

Jesse Frederik - Peilingen na verkiezingen: zonde van de zendtijd
Listen to this episode from De Correspondent on Spotify. De kiezer heeft gesproken, maar tegen de peilers praat-ie alweer vrolijk verder. Handig om praatprogramma’s mee te vullen. Maar wat zegt het ons dat de PVV volgens de laatste peiling alweer op winst staat? Vrijwel niks. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/15152/peilingen-na-verkiezingen-zonde-van-de-zendtijd
 Wil je vrijblijvend kennismaken met ons journalistieke platform? Schrijf je in voor de proefmail en ontvang gr…

#SXSWEDU, the conference & festival in Austin, Texas, dedicated to the future of #Education & #Learning served as the perfect platform to test the capabilities of

GÉANT at SXSW EDU 2024: eduMEET v4 demos and new trends in education | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Words: Leonardo Marino and Silvia Fiore The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival, described by one of the participants as a “patchwork quilt of needs and ways that they can be met”, brings together educators, researchers, policymakers, and innovators from various fields in a vibrant and dynamic event focused on the future of education and learning.

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

SEC filing: NYSE-listed Bakkt, a crypto trading platform backed by the Intercontinental Exchange, warns that it might not be able to stay in business in a year (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bakkt-once-touted-bitcoin-savio…

Bakkt, once touted as Bitcoin’s ‘savior,’ is running low on cash
ICE-owned institutional crypto trading firm Bakkt has warned that it may not be able to continue doing business.

TikTok is allowing users to spread manipulated videos of Biden, despite the platform's policies | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktok-allowing-users-spread-manipulated-videos-…

TikTok is allowing users to spread manipulated videos of Biden, despite the platform's policies

Presenter Dan Wootton says he's left GB News to launch an independent platform after Ofcom ruled misogynistic comments made on his show broke broadcasting rules (Tara Cobham/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

Dan Wootton ‘fired by GB News’ after Ofcom finds Laurence Fox’s misogynistic rant on show broke rules
Mr Wootton’s name no longer features in the channel’s list of presenters on its website

UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack prompted disruptions two weeks ago (John Tozzi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UnitedHealth (UNH) Outlines Timeline for Restoring Change Healthcare After Hack
UnitedHealth Group Inc. services are starting to be restored more than two weeks after a cyberattack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary.

Robinhood says up to 25% of its trading volume is outside of traditional market hours, and investors have traded $10B overnight since its 24-hour rules in 2023 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A Quarter of Robinhood’s Trading Volume Often Comes After Hours
Robinhood Markets Inc. is seeing as much as 25% of total trading volume coming outside of traditional market hours as investors take advantage of extended days on the retail-brokerage platform.

Mastodon und das Finanzamt, "die Jugend" und die AfD, der Datenverkehr im Netz, das zu Hühnerbatterien verkommen ist gemixt mit Windkraft und Karl Lauterbach, Themen meiner #Wochenschau.
#Mastodon #Finanzamt

Das Finanzamt, die neue Jugendstudie und das Netz als Hühnerbatterie vollgedröhnt mit Bots und KI
Mastodon und das Finanzamt, „die Jugend“ und die AfD, der Datenverkehr im Netz, das zu Hühnerbatterien verkommen ist gemixt mit Windkraft und Karl Lauterbach, Themen meiner Wochenschau.…

Another good decision on #ScheduleA joinder out of the NDIL (this time, from Judge Ellis):
https://storage.courtlistener.com/reca

A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers' Association's copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091667/twitte…

Twitter’s music label legal trouble might have legs
Twitter, now known as X, will still have to face parts of a lawsuit filed by major music publishers alleging the platform “breeds massive copyright infringement.”

Sources: BigCommerce, provider of software and an e-commerce platform to retailers, is exploring a sale after losing 90% of its market value since its 2020 IPO (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/soft…

A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers' Association's copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091667/twitte…

Twitter’s music label legal trouble might have legs
Twitter, now known as X, will still have to face parts of a lawsuit filed by major music publishers alleging the platform “breeds massive copyright infringement.”

Sources: BigCommerce, provider of software and an e-commerce platform to retailers, is exploring a sale after losing 90% of its market value since its 2020 IPO (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/soft…

Truth Social co-founders accuse #Trump of trying to rip them off in merger - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-merger/

Truth Social co-founders accuse Trump of trying to rip them off in merger
The co-founders of Donald Trump's media company accused the former president of scheming to lock them out of a stake in the company potentially worth millions of dollars. Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Trump's Truth Social platform, is trying to merge with a special purpose acquisition c...

Paris-based Stonal, which offers a data management platform for real estate owners and investors in Europe and launched StonalGPT earlier in 2024, raised €100M (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2024/05/06/stonal-secu

Stonal Secures near €100M investment from Aareon for real estate data management
Today real estate data management platform Stonal raised up to €100 million in a strategic investment by Aareon, a European provider of SaaS solutions. Founded in 2017, Stonal’s mission is to deliver data quality at scale for asset owners and investors. Its collaborative AI-powered platform extracts information from documents and blueprints, creating an accurate and continuously updated database on buildings open to stakeholders such as property managers, surveyors, and insurers. It…

In about half an hour (14:30 BST) we're going to Space Scotland?
It's The Firmament!
Join me #SelfPromotion

Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers (Andrea Grimes/Home With The Armadillo)
https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2024

Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
When Substack tanks — and I think its right-wing, Musk-flavored, tech-bro-brained management indicates that it will — it will be the Twitter implosion all over again, plus an order of magnitude.…

Accenture says it plans to acquire online learning company Udacity and announces LearnVantage, a learning suite it pledges to expand with $1B over three years (Diane Brady/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/03/05/accenture-ceo-julie-sweet-udaci…

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet shares why her firm is acquiring Udacity to launch an AI-powered training platform
Accenture is acquiring the online learning platform as part of a new AI-powered suite of learning and training services for clients.

Accenture says it plans to acquire online learning company Udacity and announces LearnVantage, a learning suite it pledges to expand with $1B over three years (Diane Brady/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/03/05/accenture-ceo-julie-sweet-udaci…

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet shares why her firm is acquiring Udacity to launch an AI-powered training platform
Accenture is acquiring the online learning platform as part of a new AI-powered suite of learning and training services for clients.

In about half an hour (19:00 BST) we need to unflap a flapper?
It's The Sexy Brutale!
Join me #SelfPromotion

DEX Screener: the value of decentralized social platform Friend.tech's native token, the Friend, fell ~98% to below $2 after making its trading debut on May 3 (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Crypto’s Social Media Friend Tech Saw Token Value Crash 98%
Friend.tech, one of the most ambitious projects by crypto advocates in the social media sector, saw the value of its new cryptocurrency tumble almost immediately after making its trading debut.

Disney says the standalone ESPN app it plans to launch in 2025 will be available on Disney for bundle subscribers (Samantha Masunaga/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-04-03/espn-streaming-d…

Disney plans to integrate a standalone ESPN service into Disney+
A planned ESPN streaming service will join the Disney+ platform in 2025, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger announced Wednesday at the company's shareholder meeting.

In about 15 minutes (18:00 BST) we've got our crew, so it's time for adventures on the high seas!
It's The Secret of Monkey Island!
Join me #SelfPromotion

Disney says the standalone ESPN app it plans to launch in 2025 will be available on Disney for bundle subscribers (Samantha Masunaga/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-04-03/espn-streaming-d…

Disney plans to integrate a standalone ESPN service into Disney+
A planned ESPN streaming service will join the Disney+ platform in 2025, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger announced Wednesday at the company's shareholder meeting.

Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security (Kevin Poireault/Infosecurity)
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/wiz-discovers-fla…

Wiz Discovers Flaws in GenAI Models Enabling Customer Data Theft
Wiz researchers found architecture flaws in generative AI models available on the AI hub Hugging Face

A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers' Association's copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091667/twitte…

Twitter’s music label legal trouble might have legs
Twitter, now known as X, will still have to face parts of a lawsuit filed by major music publishers alleging the platform “breeds massive copyright infringement.”

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

Boston-based Overjet, which offers AI software that helps diagnose dental disease from scans, raised a $53.2M Series C led by March Capital at a $550M valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MIT Scientist Raises $53 Million to Deploy AI for Dentists
Overjet has raised $53.2 million from investors led by March Capital to develop and expand an AI platform that helps diagnose disease from scans and other data, aiming to make trips to the dentist easier for patients and insurers.

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

Nonprofit library tech cooperative OCLC, which owns WorldCat, acquires CloudLibrary, a digital lending service used by ~500 libraries in 20 countries (John Maher/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…

OCLC Acquires CloudLibrary Digital Content Platform
Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections—has acquired CloudLibrary, a technology platform offering access to a variety of digital content through libraries.

Aerospike, which offers a highly scalable NoSQL database platform for processing data queries, raised $109M led by Sumeru, taking its total funding to $241M (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/04/04/aerospike-reels-109m…

Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database - SiliconANGLE
Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database - SiliconANGLE

Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers (Andrea Grimes/Home With The Armadillo)
https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2024

Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
When Substack tanks — and I think its right-wing, Musk-flavored, tech-bro-brained management indicates that it will — it will be the Twitter implosion all over again, plus an order of magnitude.…

Fubo reports 1.51M FuboTV subscribers at the end of Q1, down from 1.61M in Q4, revenue up 24% YoY to $394M, and a $56.1M loss, down from $83.6M a year ago (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Fubo Drops to 1.51M North American Subscribers in First Quarter
The streaming platform shrunk its losses on higher subscription and advertising revenue.

YouTube's CEO says OpenAI training Sora using its videos would be a violation of YouTube ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24118984/patreon-…

Patreon is taking Reddit’s approach to content moderation
Creator platform Patreon is expanding community chats, a Discord-like feature first introduced in September. Now chats will be available on the web and to free users.

Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119438/stability-ai-audio-…

AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better
Stability AI’s Stable Audio 2.0 updates the platform's first version by letting users upload clips, generate longer songs, and have more control over crafting the songs.

Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24118984/patreon-…

Patreon is taking Reddit’s approach to content moderation
Creator platform Patreon is expanding community chats, a Discord-like feature first introduced in September. Now chats will be available on the web and to free users.

Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119438/stability-ai-audio-…

AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better
Stability AI’s Stable Audio 2.0 updates the platform's first version by letting users upload clips, generate longer songs, and have more control over crafting the songs.

Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Rebuffed Google Proposal For a VR and AR Tie-Up
Late last year, in a meeting between Google and Meta Platform staffers, Google suggested that Meta partner on Android XR, the new software platform Google is developing for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed-reality headsets, according to a person involved in the talks. The two ...

LayerX, which makes a browser extension to let companies secure their devices and SaaS apps, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkevyremc

LayerX raises $26 million for its browser security platform
The Israeli startup’s Enterprise Browser Extension integrates with any browser, helping enterprises to secure their devices, identities, data, and SaaS apps from web-borne threats and browsing risks

X promotes Kylie McRoberts to Head of Safety, after Ella Irwin left in June 2023, when Musk overruled a decision that limited the spread of an anti-trans video (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-x-app…

Elon Musk’s X appoints new safety chiefs
Elon Musk’s X said Tuesday it was appointing two new employees to oversee safety on the platform.

X promotes Kylie McRoberts to Head of Safety, after Ella Irwin left in June 2023, when Musk overruled a decision that limited the spread of an anti-trans video (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-x-app…

Elon Musk’s X appoints new safety chiefs
Elon Musk’s X said Tuesday it was appointing two new employees to oversee safety on the platform.

A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/competing-wikipedia-editors-only-about-roa…

Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads
A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways. But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue.