Tech Meme

Washington Post: Analysis: X adds a five-second delay on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Elon Musk often attacks  —  The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Analysis: X imposes a five-second delay when users click t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, NYT, and other sites Musk often attacks  —  The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Xbox debuts a strike-based enforcement program, to improve “player transparency” and clear up confusion; eight strikes over six months results in a one-year ban  —  Today, a new strike-based enforcement program is coming to Xbox.  The system is meant to clear up confusion regarding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: OpenAI says the company has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using the LLM for content moderation  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been using its most advanced large language model to enforce the company’s content policies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google adds an experimental browsing feature that summarizes page content to Search Generative Experience, first in the Google mobile app for Search Labs users  —  Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: GOP Representative Don Bacon says the FBI told him on August 14 that Chinese spies hacked into his email accounts when other Microsoft accounts were breached  —  Rep. Don Bacon said he was told of the hacking Monday; he pledged to ‘work overtime’ to win passage of an aid package for Taiwan Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: YouTube starts mass removing videos promoting “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective” or discouraging “seeking professional medical treatment”  —  YouTube will remove content that promotes “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective” or which … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: OpenAI says it has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using it for content moderation  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been using its most advanced large language model to enforce the company’s content policies, marking a major milestone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google’s Search Generative Experience adds an experimental browsing feature that summarizes page content, first in the Google mobile app for Search Labs users  —  Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube updates YouTube Music on iOS and Android with Samples, a music discovery feed featuring vertically cropped, 30-second clips uploaded directly by artists  —  While there have been modernizations, YouTube’s music streaming service has remained functionally and visually the same since its launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme