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Fallout from the Meta downtime

Yesterday Meta services took a big hit with issues plaguing Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The amount of people thinking they had been hacked, and the others who literally thought the internet were down shows how… 

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Meta products down 5th March 2024

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

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Elon Musk sued for $128 million!

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… 

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Ambient Garden

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

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Apple hit with huge $2billion EU fine

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

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Threads API from June

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… 

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Apple changes its mind…again!

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… 

Automattic and AI training data, a quick update

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…