In a hands-on with the #Perplexity #AI powered web browser #Comet, #TechCrunch found it requests broad #Google Account access — like managing drafts, sending emails, downloading contacts, editing calendars, and copying a company's full employee directory.
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
Declaring Metapendence – Threads
Last week, I wrote about alternatives to Meta’s WhatsApp. While WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, the many privacy issues with both Meta in general and WhatsApp in particular provide many reasons to stay away or move away from WhatsApp. I, myself, have never used WhatsApp, but I want to be as thorough as possible in providing solutions for the Meta problem.
This week, we take a look at Threads, the micro blogging service which Meta released in 2023 to take advantage of the mass exodus […]
https://medi-nerd.com/2025/06/24/declaring-metapendence-threads/
Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code
Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code #TechCrunch, #aihttps://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/mistral-releases-a-vibe-coding-client-mistral-code/
「Xは木曜日の障害後もバグに悩まされ続けている 」: #TechCrunch
「24時間以上にわたり、この記者を含む多くのXユーザーが、サイトの基本機能に問題を抱えています。一部のメッセージが読み込まれず、タイムラインが更新されず、一部の投稿はウェブページを(場合によっては複数回)更新しないと表示されません。
ウェブ障害を報告するクラウドソーシングプラットフォーム「ダウンディテクター」によると 、この障害は木曜日の午後に始まった 。東部時間午後2時12分から、数千人のユーザーがサインインできない、ダイレクトメッセージが消えるといったバグに関する報告を提出した。
Xの公式エンジニアリングアカウントは 木曜日の投稿でサービスの低下を 認め、データセンターの停止に関連していると主張した。
「Xは、本日、プラットフォーム上でパフォーマンスの問題を経験していることを認識しております」とアカウントは記している。「データセンターに障害が発生しており、チームは問題解決に向け積極的に取り組んでおります。」 」
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/x-continues-to-suffer-bugs-following-thursday-outage/
This might be censorship. Tech Crunch has been outspoken about rights and digital rights.
Yahoo won't be attacked for killing Tech Crunch, the new owner will.
My guess from circumstantial evidence.
Yahoo has sold the TechCrunch to investment company Regent for an undisclosed amount. Read more at @Variety. #TechCrunch #Journalism #Regent #Yahoo #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/t7iO9Q
Yahoo Sells TechCrunch to Investment Firm Regent
#Variety #News #TechCrunch #Yahoo
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/yahoo-sells-techcrunch-regent-1236344888/
“The People in Elon Musk’s #DOGE Universe”
From #TechCrunch, February 18, 2025: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/the-people-in-elon-musk-doge-universe
to follow
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/
#OpenAI tries to 'uncensor' #ChatGPT
by #MaxwellZeff
By @lorenzofb via #TechCrunch @ 10:10am ET on Feb 13, 2025
#Italian #spyware maker #SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious #Android apps that masquerade as #WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal #PrivateData from a target’s device, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
#Guide to Pro #democracy voices for #resistance to #fascism #authoritarian #trump / #musk #coup : #journalists and #commentators. Many are both. 1/?
#FreeSpeech, #Tech, #SocialMedia:
Mike Masnick: @mmasnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social of #techcrunch
@radleybalko / @radleybalko.bsky.social
who has covered abuse of power for *years*
Timothy Snyder of #Yale: https://substack.com/@snyder and historian of #fascism, among other thing
It might've taken us ten years, but we finally made it into TechCrunch — thanks @sarahp@mastodon.social for the great writeup!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/forum-software-nodebb-joins-the-fediverse/
Next step, maybe they'll let someone write an article about us on Wikipedia.
Gemäss #TechCrunch hat #Mastodon weltweit erst 835‘000 Nutzer, die das Netzwerk mindestens ein Mal monatlich nutzen. Ich bin erstaunt, dass es nicht mehr sind. Sind die meisten, die von #X weg sind, doch zu #Bluesky oder #Threads gegangen?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/mastodon-announces-transition-to-nonprofit-structure/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/uk-throws-its-hat-into-the-ai-fire/?guccounter=1
#UK throws its hat into #AI fire
Not...good.
The #fediverse's very own @loops was mentioned by @TechCrunch as a viable alternative to #TikTok for the potential Sunday US shutdown!!!
@dansup you better get your servers overclocked and ready
No TechCrunch: Watching Streams and Video is Not Copyright Infringement
There's a lot of bad legal takes when it comes to copyright and AI. You can add watching free streams to that list now.
https://www.freezenet.ca/no-techcrunch-watching-streams-and-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/