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Once again, we have a ton of news to check today! Less AI and more social media for this week. Hope you will enjoy this weekly digest 🙂
Social media
Will it be possible to not talk about Elon Musk for an entire week? apparently not… X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to Elon.
Read full article on Ars Technica website
Ad-free Instagram / Facebook might get 40% cheaper as Meta wants to appease EU regulators. 5,99€ a month for an ad-free Instagram is kind of tempting… Read full article on The Verge website
You think LinkedIn is cringe? Wait until you see the video games they plan to put on it… I can’t wait to see my feed full of shady influencers best-scores! Read the full article on Tech Crunch
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time… in a shitty 360p video… Watch full video on YouTube
Regulation
Google has been slapped with a €250M fine for breaching EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with media publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models without permission. Read full article on The Next Web website
AI
ChatGPT Store is lacking moderation: GPTs impersonating real persons or fictional characters (thus copyrighted), other GPTs that pretends to be undetectable for academics, etc. OpenAI need to clean a bit its marketplace. Read full article on Tech Crunch website
YouTube is now asking creators if their video contains AI generated content. It may seem a bit light to rely solely on self-reporting for this kind of information, but if YouTube realizes you have lied, you risk getting your channel banned. Read the full post on YouTube blog
UX
The next article is a really interesting recap about Flexbox and CSS Grid and why UX designers should understand them. Read the full article on Medium
Drama alert
As previously mentioned, the Don Lemon show that was supposed to be broadcast on X was canceled by Elon Musk following his interview by Don for the first issue. Don posted the full interview on his YouTube channel. Nothing really new, Musk is someone who has his… unique worldview! Watch full interview on Don Lemon YouTube channel
Tech
Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows: Windows users have reported seeing the new pop-up in recent days, advertising Bing AI and Microsoft’s Bing search engine inside Google Chrome. This kind of shitty idea that creates more irritation than satisfaction… Read full article on The Verge website
Science
Neuralink has shared a video of Noland Arbaugh, the first human to receive their implant, named Telepathy. He is now able to control a computer mouse and chess. It’s a bit overkill to play chess handless but hey! no shamming… Watch full video on Twitter
That’s it for this week! Good luck for the last few hours before the weekend 🙂
