北海道大学図書館が、Facebookアカウントの廃止を発表→その理由に今の10代20代がFacebook離れを改めて感じる

湯村 翼 Tsubasa Yumura @yumu19 北海道情報大学 情報メディア学部 情報メディア学科 准教授。Cyber-Physical-Human Interaction Lab @yumulab 専門は情報科学。UbiComp/HCI/宇宙/地球惑星科学/北海道コンサドーレ札幌 #SpaceApps #NT札幌 #品モノラジオ i rarely reply scrapbox.io/yumu/

Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn, is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. AaBeZe’s founders Michael Phillips Moskowitz, the former […]

Playground launches in beta to help creators cultivate community

Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. Already, the website has a wide variety of users like the Museum of Modern Art, comedy host Alexis Gay, the Abolitionist Teaching Network, activist Nupol Kiazolu, and a Malaysian virtual […]

Here’s what’s happening today at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021

And we’re off to the data races! Yes, today iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021 dives deep into the data science solutions that power artificial intelligence and machine learning. It’s shaping up to be a productive and opportunity-filled day. Don’t have a pass yet? No problem — they’re free. Simply register here and then get ready […]

Facebook is making two-factor mandatory for high-risk accounts

Facebook, a recently added subsidiary of Meta, said it will make two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for high-risk accounts likely to be targeted by malicious hackers. The move is part of a major expansion of Facebook Protect, the social networking giant’s enhanced security program that’s intended to protect the accounts of people who may be at […]

英市場・競争庁、Meta に GIPHY 売却を命ずる

headless 曰く、英市場・競争庁 (CMA) は 11 月 30 日、Meta (以下、Facebook) に GIF ライブラリサービスの GIPHY を売却するよう命じた(プレスリリース、 The Register の記事、 The Guardian の記事、 The Next Web の記事)。

Facebook が GIPHY 買収を発表したのは昨年 5 月。CMA ではその直後に調査を開始しており、今年 8 月には買収が競争に悪い影響を与える懸念があるとする暫定的な調査結果を発表。…

UK’s antitrust watchdog orders Facebook to sell Giphy

In a significant push against big tech’s ability to maintain market dominance through sheer buying power, the UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Facebook (now Meta) to reverse its acquisition of animated GIF platform, Giphy — confirming the Financial Times‘ earlier reporting. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its phase 2 investigation cemented its earlier […]