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Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled
Don Lemon and Elon Musk sat down for an hour-long interview about hate speech, content moderation, and more — but Musk became increasingly irritated by the end.
Why Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about AI and the future of design
The leader of design toolmaker Figma on life after the failed Adobe deal and what comes next in a live interview from SXSW.
You may find that your Google Drive account has Dark mode on the web now — I have it on just one of mine, so far.
If Google has blessed you with the update, you’ll get a “New! Dark mode” prompt at login. After, the option lives under the gear icon > Settings > General > Appearance. Check the gallery below for more.
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Screenshots posted by App researcher Nima Owji show that LinkedIn is testing games, with companies ranked on how well their employees do. TechCrunch published some official screenshots supplied by LinkedIn, which confirmed the games.
Pour one out for the first team that gets berated by their boss over their company’s Crossclimb score.
The Twitter/X alternative’s latest financial update is dire: it may run out of money in April after losing contact with a single person who’s provided its funding so far. While the operators lay out backup plans like crowdfunding, the site’s future seems uncertain to say the least.
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How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
The author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture discusses how we might be able to cultivate our own tastes once more.
Search VP Pandu Nayak told me the other day Google is dead serious about enforcing its policies against content designed to game search results. Looks like that’s already happening:
Many SEOs and site owners are saying their sites are no longer showing in the Google Search index, even for a site command, after receiving the manual actions.
Google helped make the web a mess. Now it has to fix it.
[Search Engine Roundtable]
Pornhub and Xvideos, two porn sites designated as “very large online platforms” last December, are challenging their Digital Services Act obligations, Politico reports. Pornhub isn’t happy about its VLOP status, and it and Xvideos are asking for a pause on rules requiring them to publish a library of the ads on their services. The DSA is focused on content moderation, and fighting illegal and harmful content.
Guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future
On this special episode of Decoder, Complexly co-founder and YouTuber Hank Green turns the tables on Nilay Patel.
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
How we use the internet is changing fast thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find information and redeliver it as a simple conversation.
How much electricity does AI consume?
It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.
The Washington Post reports that Truth Social has the Securities and Exchange Commission’s go-ahead to complete its SPAC merger, taking the company public and unlocking around $300 million after years of uncertainty. But don’t worry, there’s still plenty of drama:
A federal prosecution of three early Digital World investors, who investigators said made tens of millions of dollars in insider trades related to the merger deal, is also scheduled to go to trial in April. In a superseding indictment filed last week in federal court, prosecutors added a charge of money laundering to one investor, Michael Shvartsman, saying he used some of his profits to buy a $14 million luxury yacht he later renamed “Provocateur.”
[The Washington Post]
In defense of busywork
Thanks to AI, rote tasks are ripe for automation. But is that really a good thing?
Six months after kicking off an initial Mastodon trial that saw it launch its own instance on the federated platform, the UK’s public broadcaster is not just extending the experiment by another six months, it’s also “planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub.”
It feels like a promising sign for the future of the fediverse.
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How AI can make history
Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?
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The text file that runs the internet
For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
AI at Work
In a short span of time, artificial intelligence has gone from a pipe dream to a ubiquitous feature. What does that mean for industries, workers, and consumers?
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The return of the (robot) travel agent
A bride, a groom, a honeymoon — and ChatGPT.
When a death is clickbait
AI-generated obituaries litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.
Skiff’s privacy-centric Google Workspace alternative is coming under the Notion umbrella as it moves further into the productivity space with things like AI features, and the recent launch of Notion Calendar.
How will we notice aliens hovering overhead when we’re all too busy scrolling? They’ll make a Squarespace website, obviously.
That’s the goofy premise, anyway, of Hello Down There, a Scorsese-directed Squarespace Super Bowl commercial.