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Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline, Elon Musk said that due to feedback Twitter will provide a write-only API for “bots providing good content that is free.” This decision is as opaque as some of the other policy decisions under Musk’s management. There is no information on what constitutes “good content” and who will decide that. Previously, Twitter shuttered API access to third-party clients saying they broke a…

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after slowing access to the website for 48 hours over content it considers "sacrilegious." A PTA spokesperson told Bloomberg that the agency has blocked the online encyclopedia for failing to remove said content within the past couple of days.  The telecom authority revealed on February 1st that it approached the website with a court order to remove "blasphemous" material from its website. After Wikipedia didn't comply or appear before authorities, the…

Twitter owner, Elon Musk, on Friday, announced that the platform will start sharing revenue from advertisements with some of its content creators. The move, according to him, takes effect immediately on Friday. Mr Musk noted that the new revenue-sharing will be open to subscribers of Twitter Blue Verified. In December last year, the company announced the relaunching of its monthly blue subscription. The initiative was announced a month after the company halted the service just days after its rollout. The company…

A judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop Meta Platforms from buying virtual reality content maker Within Unlimited, rejecting the regulator's concerns the deal would reduce competition in a new market.A December trial to decide if Meta could go forward with the relatively small deal was seen as a test of the FTC's bid to head off what it sees as a repeat of the company acquiring small upcoming would-be rivals to dominate a market, this time in the nascent virtual and…

Twitter will start sharing revenue from advertisements with some of its content creators, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday.Effective Friday, revenue from ads that appear on a creator's reply threads, will be shared. The user must be a subscriber of Blue Verified, Musk said.Musk, however, did not give details about the portion of revenue that would be shared with users.Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2023 …

“Strike. You’re out!”, says TikTok, as the popular video-sharing app just unveiled its new strike system. This is an attempt to help with content moderation on the platform. The company announced this in a recent blog post, and this post outlines the company’s attempts at transparency.Content moderation for ANY platform is difficult. But, when you’re talking about a platform as monumental as TikTok, it’s almost impossible. The company has an army of human moderators who are tasked with getting rid of harmful…

The studio is moving on to the next big thing Turtle Rock Studios is looking ahead towards its next project. And because of that, it’ll be leaving Back 4 Blood as it is, right now. In a short update, Turtle Rock Studios confirms it’s not working on any more Back 4 Blood content. Mostly, it’s because the studio is working on its next game. “Turtle Rock Studios is actually pretty small for a studio making AAA games. We don’t have quite enough folks to continue working on Back 4 Blood content while we spin up another game…

Season 2 of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 will arrive on February 15, and a new blog post from Activision details all the major changes expected for DMZ mode. The seasonal update will include a new location, boss encounter, and a seasonal wipe. Here is everything you need to know before the start of Season 2 of DMZ.New DMZ location and map changesAs previously announced, Warzone 2 is getting the brand-new Ashika Island map for Season 2, giving players a new location to infiltrate in DMZ mode. The map features…

OpenAI Unveils AI Text Classifier: A New Tool to Detect Generated Content by ChatGPT OpenAI, the world-renowned artificial intelligence research organization, has recently announced the launch of its latest AI tool, the AI Text Classifier. This AI tool is intended to recognize and distinguish content created by the popular language model ChatGPT from the human-written text. OpenAI’s ChatGPT autoregressive language model has attracted extensive notice for its capacity to generate human-like writing in response to cues.…

New Delhi, February 2 Meta has said that it took down over 22.54 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 12.03 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in December 2022 in India. Between December 1-31, Facebook received 764 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and the company said it provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 345 cases. These include pre-established channels to report content for specific…