It appears that Meta is currently down in lots of places, affecting ALL their products. The links below shows it’s a big one this time… https://downdetector.co.uk/status/facebook/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Ex-employees sue for severance pay. One of many current law suits that Musk is embroiled in, and there are still many where he has simply not paid outstanding bills/charges. It is obvious that he was… Elon Musk sued for $128 million!

Now here’s a cool generated ambient landscape with visuals. Check it oot! https://ambient.garden/

After a complaint by Spotify Apple has been hit by a huge $2billion fine from the EU https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24005938/european-commission-antitrust-apple-investigation-anti-steering-rules-app-developers

Interesting picture showing that just a couple of apps dominate the smartphone traffic charts!

Threads is making its API available from June says Meta. Big strides there and to be honest I can see Threads overtaking X/Twitter quite quickly if the API is robust enough and the rates aren’t… Threads API from June

So Apple has chosen to keep PWA support moving forward after having a deluge of complaints and requests from users. PWA stands for Progressive Web Apps and is simply put a way to get Safari… Apple changes its mind…again!

I am seeing multiple reports that user data from wordpress.com hosted sites and tumblr.com hosted sites from 2014-2023 has already been shared with various AI vendors. Even if you opt out now then the chances… Automattic and AI training data, a quick update

I’ve seen a bit of web chatter that WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to Midjourney and others to train AI models. Now for me, if they decide to do that, then I’m out.… WordPress and Tumblr to sell user data to AI companies?

The numbers are in and it appears that Threads is winning the microblogging war at the moment.Some days threads gets triple the downloads and installs of X, with X seeing a large drop since it… Threads having up to triple the X installs…