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”An OpenAI team transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos, the people said. The team included Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, who personally helped collect the videos” ”At Meta, managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house Simon & Schuster to procure long works”…

LinkedIn is the new Twitter Humblebrags mixed with influencer posts and how-to threads with an occasional sprinkle of borrowed TikToks and Reels culminating in deep insights with AI-generated illustrated images.…

”Spatial videos filmed at 30fps in 1080p take up around 130MB of storage space for one minute of video”…

”But the catch is that no one can see the posts. You can publish as many posts as you like. The app even lets you add photos to your posts as well. But you’re sending those posts into the void. Developer Pat Nakajima said on Threads that no post…

”Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers… …to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends. …allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix

”Bluesky is basically abstracting out each layer of a social media service and allowing anyone to provide alternatives at each layer… It creates a system that feels as simple and comprehensive as a centralized system, but which is actually decentralized, and enables anyone else to jump in and provide additional…

”Bitkey, as a self-custodial solution, sits somewhere between a stand-alone Tapsigner and a fully-open, interoperable multisig wallet. It does better than the stand-alone Tapsigner in some areas (e.g. 2-of-3 security), while poorer in other areas (e.g. not interoperable; tightly coupled to Block…

”in 2016, the task force created new software that could "be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage (i.e. specific actions that people are performing in

Do we have a 3 Body Problem?…

”AT Protocol will be able to support other kinds of apps, and then users will be able to move between them with the same identity and relationships, and then that will just make it a lot easier for other people to build. And so that was part of our idea…

”Dataminr pays for privileged access to X through the company’s “firehose”: a direct, unfiltered feed of every single piece of user content ever shared publicly to the platform. Watching everything that happens on X in real time is key to Dataminr’s pitch to the government. The company essentially…

”Personal data custody, or Personal Custody, means that the information (images, metadata and derived data) generated at the orb and used to generate the iris code during World ID verification is held on your device. This approach gives you control over the flow of this data—not just deletion, but…

Fediforum demos and session notes are available now from last week For example, here’s @rabble’s demo session…

”The good thing about trust is that you never have to doubt: if you’re unsure if you trust someone, you don’t. 🎉”…

Mastodon users are the most active based on my posting responses. 10x less follwers than in X. The rest are relatively inert, listed in descending order: Nostr X Bluesky Threads…