AI
Is AI search a sideshow, or a potential economic apocalypse?
Will AI-infused search be the end of publishing economics as we know it? Or is the hype outrunning the utility?
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TikTok
One year until TikTok is banned in the USA
The US Senate votes to force Bytedance to sell TikTok — or see it banned in the US. Social media is the new geopolitical battleground.
Journalism
What's the true job of a tech reviewer?
Does a reviewer have a duty to ease off a bad product to protect a company from harm? No!
microblogging
The last post for Post News
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one?
AI
Shrimp Jesus and other unexpected results of the AI boom
AI is at once more ubiquitous and less useful than people think. Navigating the coming flood of generated content is going to be a challenge.
TikTok
TikTok Watch
The Chinese-controlled social network really doesn't want to play nice with other governments…
X (Twitter)
The internet is a failed experiment
Says the man using the internet to send you this.
AI
AI: The dangerous lure of the tech evangelist
Yet again, the journalism business is dancing to the Tech Pied Piper's tune. Yet, even they don't know how the tune will end.
TikTok
TikTok vs the USA, AI vs the EU: Fight!
The regulators get itchy about China and AI, and a useful SEO tool gets its last update before AI changes everything — forever! (Maybe.)
Facebook is done with our shit, frankly
It's never easy being dumped. But Meta has dumped us good and hard. We need to accept that — and move on.
podcasting
Podcasting's moving fast… and possibly breaking things
Some news from the podcasting world, as Apple gets transcription happy, Ai translations prove harder than expected — and the worst celebrity podcast is announced.
Automattic
What the hell is happening at Automattic?
The WordPress.com company is selling posts from that site and Tumblr to AI companies — while its CEO scraps with a banned user online. Which is… fine?