Reddit

Reddit Says Protesting Communities Crashed The Site

The popular online forum Reddit experienced outages hours after thousands of Reddit communities launched a protest against its policy to charge third-party apps for data access, NBC News reported. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some unexpected…

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JenThorpe
YouTube

YouTube Lowers The Barrier To Its Monetization Program

YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to access to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partners Program (YPP). The company is expanding its shopping affiliate program to U.S.-based creators who are part of YPP and have more…

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JenThorpe
Media

Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator

Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator – and, unlike Google, open-sourced it, TechCrunch reported. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool, can turn a text description (e.g. “An ‘80s driving pop song with heavy drums and synth pads in the…

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JenThorpe
Podcast

Samsung Ex-Executive Arrested for Alleged Chip Tech Theft #1674

I am sure, in a bid to steal tech for the Chinese. A former Samsung Electronics executive, who previously served as vice president at SK Hynix, has been indicted in South Korea for purportedly stealing chipmaking technology to build a…

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Todd Cochrane
Podcast
Gadgets

Xbox Doesn’t Want To Upgrade Its Xbox Game Console

Bloomberg reported that Microsoft Corp’s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn’t “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console. (The rest of Bloomberg’s article appears to be behind a paywall.) Fortunately,…

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