Lyrak ( techcrunch.com )
Looks like another microblogging service promising Fediverse integration.
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....
Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked ( techcrunch.com )
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved ( techcrunch.com )
Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks ( techcrunch.com )
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media ( techcrunch.com )
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI ( techcrunch.com )
Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5% ( techcrunch.com )
Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%::Asset manager Fidelity has marked down its investment in Musk-owned X by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares.
Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution ( techcrunch.com )
Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,
Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy ( techcrunch.com )
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film ( techcrunch.com )
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought ( techcrunch.com )
Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat ( techcrunch.com )
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service ( techcrunch.com )
X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation