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Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced it has hit 2 million users - up by another million since September, despite remaining an invite-only app. It also revealed its timeframe regarding other key goals, indicating that it planned to have a public web interface go live by the end of the month and would launch federation by
Following the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in September, Google is rolling out Bard access for teens with safety guardrails in place, 9to5Google reported. This is coming to “most countries around the world” from Thursday onwards. It will specifically be available for those that “meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account” and have English set, while more
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, called on federal lawmakers Wednesday to pass legislation requiring parental approval for app store downloads by teenagers, as the company faces pressure to strengthen protections for children on its social media platforms, The Hill reported. Under Meta’s suggested approach, parents would receive notification when their teens attempt to download an app and
Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become video game layoff year - is in full swing, and now Amazon is getting in on it, Aftermath reported. Two sources with knowledge of the layoffs told Aftermath that Amazon is eliminating 180 positions in its games division. This includes the entirety of Crown Channel,
Several months back, Apple refurbisher John Bumstead received a batch of about 20 MacBooks from an e-waste recycler. Bumstead, who routinely refurbishes MacBooks that are more than 10 years old, shouldn’t have had a problem salvaging these computers, the oldest of which were from 2018. But only half of them were fully restorable, The Verge reported. Five of the MacBooks
Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook. To keep Threads posts from showing up on Meta’s other platforms, tap the two lines in the top right of the Threads app > Privacy > Suggesting pots on other apps - two switches let users turn off
Apple illegally discriminated against US citizens and other US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for certain types of positions that went to foreign workers, the US Department of Justice said yesterday, ArsTechnica reported. Apple discriminated “against US citizens and certain non-US citizens whose permission to live in and work in the United States does not expire,” the agency