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14 Aug

DEV Search: 20x Latency Reduction By Layering Algolia On Top of Postgres

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At DEV, our commitment to open-source development drives our decision-making process, especially regarding the tools and technologies we use. Our platform, which we open source as Forem, reflects this ethos. Forem is an open-source Rails application designed to foster community and content sharing. As a backstop for this approach, the base search is implemented in Postgres to serve small and straightforward use cases. However, to serve a high-traffic global network, it is not an entirely sufficient experience. Latency is the only objective measure of user experience. If a request loads slower, users are going to leave and/or lose trust in…

14 Aug

Meta killed Crowdtangle, an ‘invaluable’ research tool, because what it showed was inconvenient

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It’s the end of an era for social media research. Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups understand how information was spreading on Facebook and Instagram.For a company that’s never been known for being transparent about its inner workings, CrowdTangle was an “invaluable” resource for those hoping to study Meta’s platform, says Brandi Geurkink, the executive director for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research. “It was one of the only windows that anybody had into how these platforms work,” Geurkink tells Engadget. “The fact that…

14 Aug

Instagram is failing to act on abuse targeting women lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

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Instagram is failing to enforce its own rules and allowing some of its most high-profile accounts to be targeted with abusive comments “with impunity,” according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The anti-hate group claims that Meta failed to remove 93 percent of comments it reported to the company, including ones that contain racial slurs, violent threats and other disturbing language that would seem to clearly violate the social network’s rules.CCDH’s researchers zeroed in on five Republican and five Democratic lawmakers who are up for election this year. The group included Vice President Kamala Harris,…

12 Aug

Social Media Platforms Are Harming a Generation of Kids

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Investigating the impact of platforms on child safety with Olivia Carville. Source link lol

08 Aug

Google and Meta reportedly teamed up for ads targeting young teens

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Google worked with Meta to roll out ads that targeted young teens even if it's against the former's rules, according to the Financial Times. Based on the documents seen by the publication, Google worked on a marketing project designed to advertise Instagram to YouTube users within the 13- to 17-year-old age range. Google had blocked age-based ad targeting for users under 18 years ago, but the company reportedly found and used a loophole.Since they couldn't go for the demographic they wanted to reach, they instead targeted a group of users Google had labeled as "unknown." Google's staff proposed the group…

08 Aug

Facebook will let creators remove account warnings if they complete ‘educational training’

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Meta is making it a little easier for creators to avoid the dreaded “Facebook jail.” The company announced a that will allow people with professional accounts to complete in-app “educational training” in order to avoid a strike on their account for first-time violations of the platform’s community standards.In a blog post announcing the change, Meta notes that it can be frustrating for creators to navigate the company’s , which restricts Facebook accounts from certain features, including monetization tools, after multiple offenses. Under the new rules, creators who receive a warning for a first-time offense will have the option to remove…

08 Aug

Meta shutters its first-party VR game studio Ready at Dawn

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Ready at Dawn Studios, the game studio behind the Echo virtual reality series for the Meta Quest, has been shut down by its parent owner, Meta, effective immediately.Android Central reported Meta’s decision to close Ready at Dawn Studios almost a year and a half after purchasing the game studio. The news comes on the heels of a mid-July report that Meta plans to cut its Reality Labs division’s budget by 20 percent by 2026 when it is reportedly scheduled to release the Meta Quest 4 and Quest 4s, its next VR headsets.Ready at Dawn’s reach in the gaming industry goes all…

03 Aug

Meta is reportedly offering millions to use Hollywood voices in AI projects

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A future artificial intelligence product by Meta could have you chatting with celebrities. According to Bloomberg and The New York Times, the company is in talks with Awkwafina, Judi Dench and Keegan-Michael Key, among other celebrities from various Hollywood agencies for its AI projects. The company apparently intends to incorporate their voices into a conversational generative AI-slash-digital assistant called MetaAI, which is similar to Siri and Google Assistant.Meta plans to record their voices and to secure the right to use them for as many situations as possible across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and even the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Bloomberg says…

03 Aug

Turkey has blocked Instagram amid a dispute over Hamas-related content

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Instagram is blocked in Turkey amid a dispute over Hamas-related content on the platform. The app has been inaccessible in the country since Friday morning. Netblocks, an organization that tracks internet and social media outages, that Instagram had been restricted in the country.Turkish regulators didn’t specify why the block was in place but, as Bloomberg , the crackdown on Instagram appears to be related to its handling of Hamas-related posts on the platform. On Friday, Turkey’s head of communications Fahrettin Altun, said in on X that Instagram “is actively preventing people from posting messages of condolences” for Ismail Haniyeh, the…

02 Aug

A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI

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When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without the safety restrictions that prevent it from spouting hateful jokes, offering instructions for cooking meth, or misbehaving in other ways.A new training technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC San Diego, Lapis Labs, and the nonprofit Center for AI Safety could make it harder to remove such safeguards from Llama and other open source AI models in the future. Some experts believe that, as AI becomes ever more powerful, tamperproofing…