IT総合 Elon Musk’s lawyers accuse non-profit of colluding with Twitter rivals
A non-profit that monitors online hate speech and disinformation, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) says tha...
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IT総合 IT総合 How to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS
As our Twitter apps are updating to now be called “X,” you might long for the old blue bird logo. It harkens...
IT総合 Fan fiction writers rally fandoms against KOSA, the bill purporting to protect kids online
Fan fiction writers aren’t just penning alternate universe reimaginings of the Barbie movie, or steamy scenes featuring ...
IT総合 Facebook surpasses 3 billion monthly active users
Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite ...
IT総合 Meta reports 11% revenue growth, but the metaverse still suffers
Meta had one of its best quarters since before it changed its name from Facebook. The company reported 11% year-over-yea...
IT総合 RIP Digits, the New York Times math game
The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April...
IT総合 Twenty years ago, AIM chatbot SmarterChild out-snarked ChatGPT
In the early aughts, millions of preteens raced home from school and hopped onto their parents computers, opened a chat ...
IT総合 Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should cage fight over whose rebrand is worse
Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s b...
IT総合 Redditors are already using r/place to address API controversy
Reddit’s r/place is one of the most oddly inspiring events on the internet, as diverse communities from across the...
IT総合 The new Pokémon app will put you to sleep
Gotta catch’em all! Catch all those Zs, that is.
Now available in the U.S., Pokémon Sleep is an app that “tu...
IT総合 Why does the internet love tree law so much?
It was day 76 of the Hollywood writers’ strike, and once again, comedian Chris Stephens journeyed out to the picke...
IT総合 AO3 was offline a week ago, but there’s still a fandom brewing in the Downdetector comments
It was an internet nerd’s worst nightmare. On July 10, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a beloved, non-profit fan fiction...
IT総合 OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan steps down
After about two and a half years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans. Chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair ...
IT総合 House Republicans probe Threads in ongoing social media investigation
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) has expanded his wide-ranging investigation of big tech and social media compani...
IT総合 Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators
Twitter is now paying creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts. Users...
IT総合 Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing p...
IT総合 Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard merger can’t be blocked by FTC, judge rules
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard earned a big win in court today, as a federal judge ruled that the Federal Trade Commi...
IT総合 Threads, Instagram’s Twitter competitor, is expected July 6
Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Thread...
IT総合 Twitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move
Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “...
IT総合 Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws
Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require ag...
IT総合 Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in s...
IT総合 Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels NBA and Marvel games
Pokémon GO maker Niantic laid off 230 employees today, just one year after it laid off around 90 employees.
During last ...
IT総合 How Shein’s influencer trip to a Chinese factory backfired
As Shein eyes an IPO, the company’s image needs a serious makeover. From stealing indie designers’ work, to ...
IT総合 Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life.
An internal investigation by IRL’s board o...
IT総合 Patreon adds e-commerce tools, free fan membership
Patreon is rolling out an expansion of its tools for digital creators. Monthly fan subscriptions are Patreon’s bre...
IT総合 Post, a publisher-focused Twitter alternative, launches on iOS
One of many buzzy apps competing to be “the next Twitter,” Post launched its iOS app on Thursday.
Launched i...
IT総合 Twitter competitor Spill launches in beta on iOS
From a team of ex-Twitter employees, the new social platform Spill launched in an invite-only beta on the App Store.
It’...
IT総合 Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot
A man on a dating app is telling me how much we have in common – we both love books, music and traveling. He even writes...
IT総合 Linda Yaccarino is officially on the job as Twitter CEO
Incoming Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino started her new gig on Monday, according to a tweet.
“It happened — first day...
IT総合 New iPhone feature warns about unwanted nudes
Apple announced a slew of new iPhone features at this year’s WWDC keynote, like FaceTime voicemails and Check In. ...