Judge silences White House social media talks in lawsuit that departs from reality
Over the July 4 holiday, it emerged that a judge in Louisiana had issued an injunction preventing the White House from speaking to social media companies in certain ways. The lawsuit this decision is part of, it must be said, is quite mad. Robert F. Kennedy Jr swallowed the Twitter
Read moreGfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1
Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, announced that it’s shutting down on September 1, pulling its full archive of GIFs offline. Users have two months to save content before it leaves the platform forever. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued,” a message on the website writes. “Please save or delete your
Read moreBill C-18: Government of Canada to suspend advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced in a press conference today that the federal government will be suspending advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram as a response to Meta’s decision to block news content following the passing of Bill C-18. Rodriguez referred to Facebook’s decision to end news content in Canada
Read moreAnnouncing the SaaS Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become something akin to the default model for software distribution. But it’s more than a business model. It’s also a way of developing and managing software throughout its life cycle — and that means its underpinnings are forever changing. We decided to host a special SaaS Stage
Read moreCollision roundup: AI, passwords, panels and more
The annual Collision conference, says its website, “brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry.” This year’s event attracted more than 36,000 attendees from 118 countries, with 1,727 startups and partners from 76 countries exhibiting. Industry giants like AWS, Stripe, Google DeepMind, GitHub and Shopify turned up
Read moreBillionaire brawl: all the latest on the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge; Photos by Nathan Laine and Kevin Dietsch via Getty The two social media CEOs have agreed to duke it out in a cage match. Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are going to have a cage match, or at
Read moreHow Observability Changed My (developer) Life
Photo by Ben Blennerhassett on UnsplashRecently I was thinking what was the single most important thing that changed my point of view on programming other than switching from PHP to Kotlin, and that thing is observability. I’ll try to share my journey with the concept and provide some experiences and recommendations
Read moreFairphone’s repairable smartphone goes on sale in US for the first time — in a ‘deGoogled’ Murena e/OS variant
European sustainable smartphone brand Fairphone is dipping a toe in the US market by making its flagship repairable handset available to buy there for the first time via another collaboration with e/OS, a French privacy-focused not-for-profit open source OS maker that offers a “deGoogled” mobile operating system. The Dutch ethical
Read moreBlue Origin eyes international expansion
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is looking to expand into international markets, with the company in the early stages of eyeing up a launch site outside of the United States, CEO Bob Smith said earlier this week. Blue Origin is also actively looking for partnerships and acquisitions “in Europe
Read moreEGYM, the Munich-based smart fitness startup, raises $225M from Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners
The technology industry at large might not be in the best of health at the moment, but health and fitness startups appear to be alive and well. EGYM, the Munich-based “smart workout solution” business, has agreed a monster equity investment of €207 million ($225 million), on the back of a
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