Tech Meme

Lora Kelley / New York Times: A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi that has catalogued ~450,000 tech job cuts and Comprehensive.io that tracks compensation in tech job postings  —  Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi.  He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE’s Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more  —  “That’s always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody’s ever been before.  —  Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Source: Rapid, which runs an API marketplace, laid off 82% of staff in under two weeks, reducing headcount from 230 to 42; the startup was valued at $1B in 2022  —  Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with AI  —  Changes aim to respond to queries that can’t be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Ex-staff say TikTok had a list, accessible internally via a dashboard, of users watching LGBTQ content; TikTok says it deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022  —  Company logged categories of content and users on app in effort to boost engagement; spokeswoman says TikTok has restricted access to that data Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: An Idaho federal judge dismissed an FTC lawsuit against location data broker Kochava, saying the agency had not provided adequate evidence to show consumer harm  —  The ruling was a blow to the commission’s intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme