Twitter admits to having a Verified spammer problem with announcement of new DM settings
As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes. Starting “as soon as” July 14, Twitter will introduce a new messages setting aimed at reducing spam in DMs by moving messages from Verified users you
Read moreFTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. It seems unlikely this will lead to a sudden crackdown, but it shows that the FTC is doing more than
Read moreRipple’s XRP token was a security sometimes, a judge rules
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ripple’s XRP token was an investment contract when the company sold it to institutional investors, a judge ruled today. The case, brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is one of the biggest in determining whether tokens are securities. Though this is an
Read moreWelcome to the new venture normal
The U.S. venture capital market has seemingly found a new normal: Trends around the number of deals and amount of dollars invested in startups so far this year appear to be stabilizing. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter
Read moreThe value of code
Midjourney: noir cartoon humanoid robot typing on a keyboard at a computer workstationSooner or later, every software engineering organization is faced with the task of trying to evaluate the productivity of their team and the performance of its members. And invariably, the conversation turns into a discussion about whether, or
Read moreLate Stage Microservices
I read about the Amazon Prime Video team’s effort to scale and cut costs by 90% by combining their microservices into a monolith. While I’m sure there’s more to the story here, there are similar stories published around the Internet; a kind of rebuttal to the microservices craze of the
Read moreCan Amazon please show mercy to the brands and products we love?
Digital Photography Review (best known as DPReview) was regarded as one of the best review and news sites, bolstered by a strong community. It was founded at the dawn of the internet, back in 1998, and in 2007, Amazon bought it. The staff was slowly replaced with contractors and freelancers
Read moreSimbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding
Inventory robots are having a moment. Two days back, Swiss firm Verity announced an $11 million raise. That followed a $20 million round from fellow drone inventory startup B Garage, which, in turn, arrived two days after Gather AI announced it had acquired competitor Ware. That same day, Dexory announced
Read moreInstagram Threads update brings iOS 17 support among other small improvements
After topping 100 million users just five days after its public debut, Instagram’s new Threads app for iOS is out now with its first update, bringing a handful of small changes and tweaks, added features, and various bug fixes, including support for the recently released iOS 17 public beta. The
Read moreFrom Imperative to Declarative: Importing Resources With Terraform Before and After Terraform 1.5
From Imperative to Declarative: Importing Resources With Terraform Before and After Terraform Version 1.5Importing resources into your Terraform state is sometimes a necessary evil.If you are lucky to work on a greenfield project, you might not even be aware of the possibility of importing existing resources into your Terraform state. Most
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