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X rival Mastodon has started selling toys
If you like open source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billionaires, you can now support that cause … by buying toys. On Tuesday, Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, began selling its own merchandise in the form of cute, plushie ma
Threads will start showing others when you’re online by default
Meta’s X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that will let you see when someone on the social network is online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the feature on Tuesday in a Threads post, noting that it’s meant to act as “a way to help you
Keep’s AIOps platform helps ops teams reduce alert fatigue
Alert management for developers and ops teams may seem like a solved problem. Notifying an on-call engineer isn’t exactly difficult anymore, after all. But the real question has become when to alert the right person and how to help them when a service goes down, for example. Many are turning
Elon Musk’s X still struggles to grow subscription revenue
Elon Musk’s plan to reduce X’s dependence on advertising revenue by increasing paid subscriptions is still not taking off. According to a new, third-party analysis of the X Premium subscription service by app intelligence firm Appfigures, X has pulled in approximately $200 million in in
Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’
Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, has been embroiled in a very public and legal fight with WP Engine these last few weeks over the use of WordPress as a trademark and fees Automattic believes WP Engine owes to the WordPress project — sparring that has resulted in WP Eng
Some Americans are still using Kaspersky’s antivirus despite US government ban
At the end of September, Kaspersky forcibly uninstalled and replaced itself with a new antivirus called UltraAV on the computers of around a million Americans, many of whom were surprised and aghast that they were not asked to give their consent for the change. The move was the end result of the U.
Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout
Google is rolling out Android 15 today to Pixel devices. It is also adding new features through the October Pixel drop, including improved low-light photography on Instagram and support for underwater photography and video.
Android 15 updates
Android 15 has a private space feature that lets you h
Instagram's latest feature is a digital business card for your profile
Instagram is rolling out a new “profile card” feature that is essentially a digital business card for your profile. The official launch comes a few months after the Meta-owned social network was spotted testing the feature with select creators.
The new two-sided profile cards are designed to
India backs Musk in satellite spectrum allocation row
The long-running debate over how satellite spectrum would be allocated in India appeared to reach an important milestone on Tuesday: India announced it would allocate spectrum for satellite services through administrative means — essentially setting a price that is payable first-come, first-s
New iPad mini brings support for Apple Intelligence and Pencil
Apple Tuesday unveiled a new version of the iPad mini updated for the era of Apple Intelligence. The arrival is powered by the A17 Pro chip, bringing compatibility with Apple Intelligence, the company's new generative AI offering.
The new arrival marks the first major update to the 8.3-inch de
Amplitude buys Command AI to bolster its app engagement offerings
Amplitude, a publicly traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly known as CommandBar.
Most of Command AI’s 30-person, San Francisco-based team will be joining Amplitude. Command AI’s co-founder and CEO James Ev
YouTube gets better playback speed controls, collaborative playlists in new update
YouTube on Tuesday added new features to its mobile, web, and TV apps, including granular controls for playback speeds, a redesigned mini-player, collaborative playlists and badges.
Until now, users had controls to increase the playback speed in increments of 0.25x. With the latest release, YouTub
Early automates code testing for developers
Early is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses generative AI to generate unit tests, helping programmers catch potential bugs early in the development cycle. The company, which launched in August, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by Zeev Ventures, with participati