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Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…

Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users | TechCrunch
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.

TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/how-much-control-do-tiktok-users-really-have-over-fyps/

TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs...

Seeing through AI: How ScribeMe describes the world for blind users #AI

AI App Helps Blind Users Understand Their Surroundings
ScribeMe uses AI, computer vision, and Meta smart glasses to describe surroundings for blind users, turning cameras into spoken accessibility tools.

I've had issues with Linux.Pizza's Matrix-server, mainly due to uncontrolled growth of the database. Even thou retention is set do one month, there is still an absurd amount of growth in the database.
I have never encountered this before, not even with thousands of active users.
I do know that other users had this issue before and have been vocal about it.
Is there any solution to this yet?

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/bina

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users | TechCrunch
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/meta-ai-facebook-instagra…

What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram
Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.

Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post)
https://post.substack.com/p/against-claudefishing