Tech Meme

Reece Rogers / Wired: A comparison of users’ personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from Apple’s App Store  —  Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns  —  When Lori Andrews attended her daughter’s graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter’s complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality  —  NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Twitter’s biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok’s algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions  —  A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance  —  Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site’s “antagonistic actions”  —  Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.  —  The Reddit community is still reckoning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: With the Threads launch, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform’s rollout, amid Elon Musk’s Twitter chaos  —  The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult  —  Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group is proposing to buy back up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO  —  Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to retain talent and offer an exit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new $17.96/hour minimum pay for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city  —  A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: How a new TikTok-style algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter’s complex but functional community, destroying a beloved social network  —  NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Twitter’s biggest struggle is its arcane follow-based system, contrasted with TikTok’s algorithmic feed that can allow users with no followers to reach millions  —  A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance  —  Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian … Lees verder op Tech Meme