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

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

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

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

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

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware  —  Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen. 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

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests  —  The European Union’s fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what’s to come for AI services. 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