Tag: software

• Singles Are Sick of Dating Apps. But There Are 2.5 Million on Raya’s Waitlist.

  August 25, 2025

  The privately held company has attracted an A-list clientele and even gotten Gen Z onboard with online dating. Good luck making it past the team reviewing applications. https://www.wsj.com/style/raya-waitlist-founder-daniel-gendelman-3c64be91?st=BuJdLd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink more ›

• Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

  August 11, 2025

  Elon Musk’s xAI launched a Grok chatbot feature that creates nonconsensual nudes of celebrities despite efforts to purge this content from the internet. https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/756831/grok-spicy-videos-nonconsensual-deepfakes-online-safety more ›

• Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start – The Markup

  July 18, 2025

  A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/03/03/journalists-you-should-be-looking-for-undocumented-apis-heres-how-to-start more ›

• Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data

  July 14, 2025

  Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite seemingly unlimited resources,… more ›

• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs | The Verge

  June 24, 2025

  With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/686767/music-industry-ai-song-detection-tracking-licensing more ›

• Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine

  June 5, 2025

  Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content. https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/680371/microsoft-signal-magazine-interview-notepad?utm_content=bufferb6055&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer more ›

• The Myth of Automated Learning

  June 2, 2025

  AI’s real threat to education. https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-automated-learning more ›

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  March 5, 2025

  After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›

• The End of Programming as We Know It

  February 25, 2025

  There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It… more ›

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  December 21, 2024

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