Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Bluesky says the social network can’t “accommodate heads of state”, seeking to control its growth during its beta; Bluesky has ~60K users and 1.2M on a waitlist  —  Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that’s emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug 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

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Discord plans to let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to “reduce the risk of impersonation”, as some users criticize the company’s username change push  —  A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord.  —  Starting in the next couple of weeks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Q&A with Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who was awarded IEEE’s Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, and 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

Lora Kelley / New York Times: A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi, which has catalogued nearly 450,000 tech cuts, and Comprehensive.io, which tracks compensation in tech job posts  —  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

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Source: API marketplace Rapid laid off 82% of its staff in under two weeks, reducing its headcount from 230 to 42; the startup had a $1B valuation in March 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

Wall Street Journal: Former staff say TikTok had a dashboard of users who watch LGBTQ content; TikTok claims to have deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022, but the data remains  —  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

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Slash, a neobank focused on Gen Z entrepreneurs, raised $19M in seed and Series A funding from NEA, Menlo Ventures, Connect Ventures, Y Combinator, and others  —  Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug 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