The anti-hate group sued by Musk releases another damning report on X
Illustration: The Verge A month after Elon Musk sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the organization is back with another report suggesting X (formerly Twitter) is allowing hate speech to remain on the platform. In its 23-page report, the CCDH outlines how researchers collected 300 posts on X
Read moreBT and Johnson Controls Collaborate to Help Businesses
BT and Johnson Controls have announced a new collaboration aimed at assisting business customers in the UK and internationally in harnessing smart building technology to digitally monitor, analyze, and optimize energy usage in workplaces. This initiative encompasses a wide range of buildings, from offices to factories, all of which stand
Read moreKaspersky Unveils App for Streamlined Subscription Tracking
Kaspersky is set to release a Premium version of SubsCrab, a mobile app designed to assist users in monitoring their subscriptions and managing payment schedules. SubsCrab simplifies the process of tracking subscriptions, ensuring transparency and cost-effectiveness for users. This multi-platform app, available on both iOS and Android, boasts an extensive
Read moreNine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Over the weekend, a highly anticipated book arrived in the mail. Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson’s first biography of
Read moreDouYin – Apple’s Highest Grossing App Overtakes TikTok with $372M Monthly Revenue
While TikTok continues dominating the social media space as the fastest-growing app in the market’s history, its sister app, Douyin, remains the major money spinner for Chinese tech giant ByteDance. According to data presented by OnlyAccounts.io, as the highest-grossing iPhone app globally, Douyin grossed $372 million in July or nearly
Read moreAdobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans
176 days after launching its Firefly generative AI models into beta, Adobe today announced that Firefly is now generally and commercially available in its Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud. This means, for example, that Firefly features like generative fill and generative expand in Photoshop are now available
Read moreAdobe starts paying bonuses to Stock contributors whose content is being used to train Firefly
Now that Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available. One feature that always made Firefly stand out from a crowd of other image generation models was that the company only trained it on content that was either in the public domain or that it had rights to through
Read morePort is aging well as developer portal concept takes shape
Port’s founders decided to build a developer portal, a central place for developers to find all the information about their development projects, at a good time. Companies have been recognizing the need for this tool, pushed in part by Spotify Backstage, an open source project released several years ago by
Read moreWhatsApp is launching its Channels feature globally
WhatsApp announced today that it is expanding its Channels feature, aimed towards broadcasted messages, globally. The company said Channels will be available to all users in more than 150 countries over the next few weeks. In June, Meta first introduced Channels on WhatsApp to users in Colombia and Singapore. Later,
Read moreX Corp faces Dutch privacy class action over MoPub data trading
Make way for another Dutch class action privacy damages lawsuit — this one targeting the company formerly known as Twitter (now X Corp); and MoPub, the mobile ad platform it used to own (before selling it to AppLovin at the start of last year), which is accused of “illegal trafficking”
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