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You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too. (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/22/2023 - 06:19Researchers will get access to TikTok data — pending company approval (Vox)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 10:36Stop using your phone number to log in (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 06:20Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 07:26Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 07:25As conservatives criticize ‘woke AI,’ here are ChatGPT’s rules for answering culture war queries (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 02/17/2023 - 06:40The Supreme Court hears two cases that could ruin the internet (Vox)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 11:16Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 06:26A company is trying to map America’s cell networks using mail trucks
Cell network coverage maps have always been dubiously accurate in the US, and even the ones released by the Federal Communication Commission in 2021 come with a ton of asterisks. A company called Ranlytics is hoping to make a much more accurate picture by attaching equipment to some of the mail trucks that are already driving to many locations in the US to deliver parcels and letters.