Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month  —  European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch […]

Q&A with researcher Tamara Kneese on her book Death Glitch and why tech companies need to improve how they handle posthumous digital remains on their platforms (Zoë Corbyn/The Guardian)

Zoë Corbyn / The Guardian:Q&A with researcher Tamara Kneese on her book Death Glitch and why tech companies need to improve how they handle posthumous digital remains on their platforms  —  Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths?

Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of social networks populated by synthetic companions (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of social networks populated by synthetic companions  —  Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever