AI 资讯
Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe
The European Union is weighing sweeping new restrictions on children's and teenagers' access to social media, including age limits, an outright ban, and phased access. Social media platforms could also be forced to prove their services are not harmful before young people are allowed to use them. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said […]
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.
创业投融资
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.
AI 资讯
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
AI 资讯
EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.
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How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation.
开发者
How Open Source Enables Collaboration in Creating a Platform
A platform is a collaboration system: platform teams depend on application teams, and both need shared standards. Engineers trust a platform through its predictable behavior, not its features. Being an engineer is about problem-solving and being passionate about it. And being an engineer means sharing your passion for problem-solving. By Ben Linders
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The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on television. These models have minimal access to the unscripted conversations we have face to face or voice to voice. This is the vast majority of speech, and a vital component of human culture. There’s a risk to this. The increased use of large language models means we humans will encounter much more AI-generated text. We humans, in turn, will begin to adopt the linguistic patterns and behaviors of these models. This will affect not just how we communicate with one another, but also how we ...
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Series Week 24/52 — Cloud Migration: Finding Your Path in the Database Migration Minefield
{ Abhilash Kumar Bhattaram : Follow on LinkedIn } The Post-Migration Mirage For many Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), the successful cutover of a core database to the cloud feels like the ultimate victory lap. The data has landed, the connection strings are updated, and initial performance metrics look stellar. But there is a dangerous mirage that follows a cloud database migration: Hidden Downtime. Unlike an abrupt database crash, hidden downtime is a slow-burn operational decay. It happens when day-to-day transactions process smoothly in production, but the underlying database ecosystem—specifically the disaster recovery (DR) standby instances, secondary cross-region sites, and replication pipelines—quietly falls out of sync. When a true disruption occurs and you try to failover or scale, the database tier collapses. To ensure true, 24/7 predictability, forward-thinking CTOs look beyond the immediate "Go-Live" date. The ultimate challenge is navigating the dense maze of cloud onboarding options to find the exact database migration method that fits your specific application topology. Ground Zero: The Database Configuration Drift The root cause of post-migration database downtime begins long before cutover day, it starts with how the database is moved and how its configuration is maintained. Going to the cloud offers various technical pathways, but the overarching challenge is finding what fits your unique architecture. The initial migration must establish perfect baseline parity, but standard database operations and hasty migration choices quickly introduce fatal configuration drift. To manage this drift effectively, organizations must introduce rigorous baseline metrics before, during, and after the migration process: - Benchmarking Versions: Ensuring that source and target database patch levels, Timezone (TZ) files, and Release Updates (RUs) match exactly. Mismatched database versions between primary cloud instances and standby homes create silent dictionary inc
产品设计
One of Meta’s Offices Was Briefly Overtaken by a Rogue Squirrel
The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.
科技前沿
Elon Musk says X will DM you about posts that receive a Community Note
The social platform wants its crowd-sourced corrections to be harder to ignore.
开发者
‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon
This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
AI 资讯
Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected
X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.
科技前沿
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
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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
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X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools
Nikita Bier, X's head of product, said in a post on Monday that "[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral," while noting that videos on the platform "make up close to half the impressions on X." According to Bier, X is launching a […]
科技前沿
A bug in Discord's safety systems incorrectly banned accounts since May
A bug may have led to around 8,200 erroneous bans on Discord.
产品设计
The X app for iOS now has a built-in video editor
X now has a built-in video editor on iOS.
开源项目
X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts
X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.