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ByteDance has 270 days to sell Tik Tok!

President Biden has signed into law the bill giving Tik Tok owners ByteDance 270 days to sell the app or lose being able to operate in the US. This is big – this is huge.… 

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Threads overtakes X/Twitter on daily active users!

I’ve seen it reported on a few websites (so far all paywalled/access controlled) that Meta Threads has overtaken X/Twitter on daily active users. This is a really big thing for both – the rise of… 

US Media sees huge Meta drop in engagement

Whilst nothing new to me and many others, it is nice to see that everywhere people are reporting on the drop in engagement being seen across social media, especially on Meta owned platforms. I have… 

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Another Depeche Mode AI song

There has been a lot of debate about AI music since a Udio generated Depeche Mode style song emerged a couple of weeks back. Now the same person has uploaded another Depeche Mode style AI… 

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Tik Tok bill passed again…

The moves to make ByteDance sell Tik Tok has again passed in the House today. Read more below https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135163/tiktok-ban-divest-bytedance-house-foreign-aid-package

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Meta cannot rely on Pay or OK!

Seems that Meta is in big trouble again, for trying but at the moment failing in its legal obligations. It seems that Meta tried to use an unlawful method for consent requests…. read more in… 

Insta360 X4 released…

Awesome news coming today with the release of the Insta360 X4, and it’s got some great upgrades! Only downside I can see is it’s a bit larger…So what are the highlights of this new camera?… 

What is wrong with the subscription model…

Here’s a great video explaining why the subs model is so bad in 2024… Now I have posted about this before – but this bad model and bad behaviour from tech companies is only accelerating!