A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms ( techcrunch.com )
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia ( techcrunch.com )
Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network ( techcrunch.com )
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio ( techcrunch.com )
Spotify, Epic Games, and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of the DMA | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
Raspberry Pi is now a public company ( techcrunch.com )
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Jesus, again already?
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app ( techcrunch.com )
Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn't open-source, which makes all of their claims of "end-to-end encryption" worthless...
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M ( techcrunch.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14092066
Tesla blames sales drop on Houthi attacks and arson in Germany ( techcrunch.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/12894379...
Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10891549...
Gemini on Android can't ID songs, and it's frustrating | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask "what song is this", you get a reply like "use apple's Shazam"....
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers ( techcrunch.com )
Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse ( techcrunch.com )
Flipboard becomes a federated app with support for ActivityPub | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Google’s best Gemini demo was faked ( techcrunch.com )
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon ( techcrunch.com )
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw.... existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement... "
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.