“Untied States" [sic] is a good Freudian slip, these days.
https://gizmodo.com/a-feature-that-makes-your-phone-data-self-destruct-in-authorities-hands-may-soon-have-its-day-in-court-2000790831…
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 …
A look at the WHCA's efforts to maintain diplomacy with President Trump, as White House journalists and the WHCA continue to endure anti-press machinations (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/restraint-feck…
dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
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So were now onto bitching about TSC being a requirement on your CPU in order to boot a Linux-based PC
https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-follows-windows-and-makes-a-cpu-feature-requirement-mandatory/
Ok... so wh…
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-is-giving-tea…
App-Store-Anwendung: Apple trackt eingegebene Zeichen
Apple stellt Entwicklern künftig mehr Daten zu Verfügung und arbeitet an neuen Personalisierungs-Features. Das Tracking geht dabei weit, so Sicherheitsforscher.
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