FTC chair Lina Khan cast deciding vote in decision to refile.
Facebook Wants You To Hold Your Next Meeting in VR
For those who don’t think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you’re sitting around a table in a conference room. From a report: On T…
In growing battle with TikTok, Facebook to test ‘Facebook Reels’ in the U.S.
Reels are coming to Facebook in the U.S. The company this morning announced it will begin testing a new feature, Facebook Reels, which will give Facebook users the ability to create and share short-form video content directly within the News Feed or within Facebook Groups. The addition is an expansion of tests launched earlier this […]
Facebook releases a glimpse of its most popular posts, but we don’t learn much
Facebook is out with a new report collecting the most popular posts on the platform, responding to critics who believe the company is deliberately opaque about its top-performing content. Facebook’s new “widely viewed content reports” will come out quarterly, reflecting most viewed top News Feed posts in the U.S. every three months — not exactly […]
Facebook reveals top posts but still won’t share key data about disinformation
Report does little to shed light on hyperpartisan content or disinformation.
Twitter adds support for Twitter Spaces to its rebuilt API
Twitter is rolling out changes to its newly rebuilt API that will allow third-party developers to build tools and other solutions specifically for its audio chatroom product, Twitter Spaces. The company today announced it’s shipping new endpoints to support Spaces on the Twitter API v2, with the initial focus on enabling discovery of live or […]
TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies
Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube implement new rules … CGI CEOs … and unpleasant rightwing ‘lolz’ in KabulI bring good news: regulation works.The last month has brought a flurry of changes to major tech …
Facebook、高精度な時刻同期システムをオープンソース化
Facebookは8月11日、ネットワーク同期用のタイムアプライアンスを構築し、仕様全体をオープンソース化したと発表した。多くのサービスは時刻同期に依存しているが、NTPサービス自体のトラブルやネット接続できないときには時刻補正ができない。このプロジェクトでは、原子時計を搭載したPCI Expressの拡張カード形式にまとめられた時刻管理ボックス「Time Card」を用意した（Time Appliances Project、Facebook、Open-Time-Server GitHub、GIGA…
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul
It’s meant to act as emergency hotline for civilians to report violence and looting.
Twitter taps crypto developer to lead ‘bluesky’ decentralized social network effort
Twitter’s ambitious upstart decentralized social media working group “bluesky” took an important step Monday as the social media company appointed a formal project lead who will direct how the protocol develops moving forward. Crypto developer Jay Graber was tapped by Twitter to helm the initiative, which the company hopes will eventually create a decentralized social […]