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Most of us spend most of our days inside apps of one type or another, and if you’re looking for a new one, there’s no shortage: You’ll find around 1.6 million of them in the iOS App Store alone, for example, which is enough to last several lifetimes. Now, while the majority of these apps are perfectly benign and helpful, that’s sadly not the case for all of them.In this month alone, close to 200 malware-harboring Android apps were spotted, accounting for some 30 million installations. While app stores from Apple, Google,…

Image Source : FILE Whatsapp brings screen sharing feature to iOS WhatsApp has recently let the user enjoy a number of new features for Android users, and now the instant messaging platform has started letting iPhone users share screens ( the new feature). With millions of users worldwide, WhatsApp has consistently introduced updates to enhance user experience and meet…

An apparent change to Facebook’s algorithm in May caused a dramatic drop in traffic to news and media websites, according to a growing list of publishers and data from Echobox, a social media management company.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofIt’s a troubling change in an increasingly frail digital news business, where companies have little choice but to relyon social media’s biggest gatekeeper. Publishers say they deserve transparency, but as with similar changes in the past, there’s been no communication from Meta,…

Twitter ran ads from household-name brands like Disney, Microsoft, and The Telegraph newspaper alongside neo-Nazi propaganda this week. Family-friendly media conglomerates, tech giants, and legacy newspapers running ads on social media platforms may try to do so with some confidence their names won’t appear plastered next to racist, hateful imagery, but that’s far from guaranteed on Elon Musk’s new Twitter. Users tweeted screenshots of the ads beside clips an antisemitic film, and Gizmodo was able to verify that the ads…

Twitter is in freefall—ad revenue is down more than half since last year, owner Elon Musk is mucking around and firing people left and right, and users (including me) have noticed a steep decline in the quality of their feeds. Bluesky, a near-clone of Twitter built on a decentralized protocol with the support of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is ascending as its forebear declines.How To Remove Followers From TwitterThe company is gaining users, but not too many—a new user can only join the social network with an invite…

Former users of Parler, the defunct right-wing social media app, got an email from Donald Trump on Tuesday.How To Remove Followers From Twitter“Reports state that I could receive a maximum sentence of 400 YEARS IN PRISON despite being a totally and completely innocent man,” the email reads, referencing the former president’s indictment over allegations that he stole classified documents. “It sounds like something Stalin or Mao did to eliminate their opposition. But instead, it’s happening here in America. Communism has…

Under Elon Musk’s rule, Twitter employees have been required to work from a company office for at least 40 hours per week since November 2022. But following that mandate might get a lot more difficult for a subset of the platform’s Colorado-based workers. To get to their desks, some of the site’s Boulder employees will have to fight their way through the county sheriff.How To Remove Followers From TwitterA judge has ordered one of Twitter’s offices to be returned to the landlord (Lot 2 SBO LLC), as first reported by the…

Music labels sued Twitter for copyright infringement in a class action lawsuit filed on Wednesday. The labels claim the social media company used copyrighted music to increase the amount of time users spend on the platform and failed to remove the content after it received notifications to take the copyrighted content down.Making the Facebook Papers PublicThe National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) filed the lawsuit on behalf of 17 music publishers who represent artists including Taylor Swift, Beyonce, The Weeknd,…

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new show, Tucker on Twitter, might not be on Twitter for much longer. On Monday, Carslon’s ex-employer upped the pressure on its former host and sent the right-wing commentator a “cease and desist” letter, according to Axios and confirmed by multiple reports. Lawyers for the company alleged Carlson’s new show represents a breach of his Fox contract.Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechThe cease and desist letter, which reportedly features the phrase “NOT FOR PUBLICATION” marks the…

Shortly after taking the helm from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino is making it clear that she’ll be frictionless against Musk’s incoherent “vision” for the social media platform.Read more... Shortly after taking the helm from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino is making it clear that she’ll be frictionless against Musk’s incoherent “vision” for the social media platform.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…