The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
…Come June 15, Meta plans to cut creation features in VR and stop allowing users to build updates or new content on the platform—no more new worlds or seasonal updates, except…
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The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…Crucially, few companies have the scale and stability needed to stake out an influential pro-end-to-end encryption position. And an even smaller group—namely, Meta and Apple—have made it…
The Screenmaxxers Who Spend Every Waking Hour on Their Phones
…Daniel Rios is in a similar position. A computer programmer, he lives in the South American country where he grew up after having lived abroad for years. Most of his friends moved…
Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
…It's like a higher level of thinking and abstraction than Grammarly can do.” Casey Newton, author of the newsletter Platformer, tells me AI has made him reassess the value of his…
I Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO
…Besides every social media service prioritizing endlessly scrollable video feeds, Disney has introduced short videos called Verts to its Disney+ streaming platform. Bravo will soon be pushing out vertical videos hosted by…
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
…It’s well-known that AI models have become more sycophantic through reinforcement learning, the process of fine-tuning a chatbot through positive and negative feedback. Anthropic published a paper in 2023…
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
…And if you want to learn more about the newly announced Googlebook platform for laptops, we've got you covered here. Gemini Intelligence Google is officially packaging many of the new Gemini…
Meet the Accidental Editor in Chief of Muslim Media
…He runs @Muslim, with more than 12 million followers across platforms—6.7 million on Instagram alone. He has interviewed Zohran Mamdani, Riz Ahmed, Mo Amer, and Motaz Azaiza. The success of…
Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do
…During the generative AI boom and hype cycles of the past couple of years, some people posting on hacking forums have moved from being positive about how AI can help hacking to…
The Asus Zenbook 16 Delivers Great Performance in an Otherwise Mediocre Laptop
…natively on the platform instead of via emulation. To achieve all this, however, battery life had to take a hit. The upshot is that Qualcomm is no longer positioning Snapdragon X as…