Technology

Platformer:Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and share their location data but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads  —  Agree to personalize your ads — or else  —  A month ago, when Elon Musk’s Twitter first set out to revamp […]

We’re impressed with Nintendo’s compact alternative to its hybrid console.

Wiper malware from no fewer than 9 families has appeared this year. Now there are 2 more.

When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was hoping to get results similar to some of my colleagues at MIT Technology Review. The digital retouching app was first launched in 2018 but has recently become wildly popular thanks to the addition of Magic Avatars, an AI-powered […]

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn’t “the best structure” for “external insights into our product and policy development work”  —  Meanwhile, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk tweets

Clipchamp, the Microsoft-owned free video editor, is tailor-made for social media marketers, small businesses, and content creators just starting out.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re […]

Does the award-winning Emma Premium mattress match up to its comfort claims?

Jason Del Rey / Vox:Layoffs and rescinded job offers are threatening Amazon’s reputation in the tech job market, where it was already facing challenges, per a leaked June 2022 memo  —  A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier this year.

The Marshall Emberton 2 is a stylish yet simple speaker, with minimal features but a seriously impressive battery life.