Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw.... existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement... "
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought (techcrunch.com)
AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for Chaos (techcrunch.com)
AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for Chaos::Artificial intelligence just can't keep up with the human desire to see boobs and 9/11 memes, no matter how strong the guardrails are.
Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership (techcrunch.com)
Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership::Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed "Tinder Select," which includes unique perks like the
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)
Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)
Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.
Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed (techcrunch.com)
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.
Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1088852...
A group of researchers said they have found a way to hack the hardware underpinning Tesla’s infotainment system, allowing them to get what normally would be paid upgrades — such as heated rear seats (techcrunch.com)
The researchers will present their research next week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas....
Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades (techcrunch.com)
Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades::A group of researchers found a way to hack a Tesla's hardware with the goal of getting free in-car upgrades, such as heated rear seats.
Fable Studios created an AI-generated episode of South Park... during a Hollywood strike over AI. (techcrunch.com)
So, how much money do you think Matt and Trey are going to sue them for?
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
Plex lays off 20% of its workforce (techcrunch.com)
Plex, the free streaming app, laid off approximately 20% of its staff, TechCrunch has learned, which will affect all departments, including the Personal Media teams....
Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators (techcrunch.com)
Excellent work
Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable (techcrunch.com)
The mystery of an alleged data broker’s data breach (techcrunch.com)
The breached data appears partly legitimate — if imperfect — but also widely available for sale by data brokers.
Apple confirms plans to work with Google's Gemini 'in the future' (techcrunch.com)
“We’re looking forward to doing integrations with other models, including Google Gemini, for instance, in the future," Federighi said during WWDC 2024.
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple's ChatGPT integrations (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk's posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024.
