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Another day, another huge Meta/Facebook fine!

It never rains but it pours for Meta right now, Nigeria has fined the behemoth $220 million for various infringements! The fines are mounting up – eventually something has to give https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24202310/meta-has-been-fined-220-million-by-nigerias-competition-watchdog

social media

Will external linking be dead soon?

I have been having some interesting discussions recently and a topic that has started to gain some traction is that external links will be something from the past soon – to clarify what I mean… 

ai

Generative AI Hype hits a hurdle

I have said this for a while now as companies have all jumped on the AI hype train and promised the world whilst well delivering not much at all….This report is one of a few… 

facebook

Leaving Facebook

After many years I will no longer be posting on Facebook. I’ve had enough of the policies and the privacy issues. Find me here or via email…

Intel has massive problems!

The tech world has been alight recently with real problems for Intel with their 13th gen and 14th gen high end parts failing and being just generally unreliable. What has this to do with social… 

X

Massive 9.4gb X/Twitter data leak!

X/Twitter has suffered from a data leak of 9.4gb and nearly 200 million data records. If you still use X/Twitter I’d be changing my password sharpish!

tubi

Tubi launches in the UK

Tubi is the latest “free” streaming yv service in the UK, by free of course it means with ads. I’ve had a quick look and whilst it’s not stellar it is solid already. It is… 

threads federation

Threads now federating in the UK

My threads account @3dcandy is now federating in the UK. It was announced a bit back, and you have to turn the feature on (it is found in Settings>Account>Fediverse Sharing) but it appears to be…