This Friday (17th), the Read.cv platform announced that it was acquired by Perplexity, an AI startup, and it will cease operations.
I have been thinking and reading quite a bit about Free Our Feeds, a campaign to “save social media from billionaire capture”.
Since 2021, TCL has been investing in an intriguing screen technology called NXTPAPER: an LCD panel that attempts to simulate paper to be less harsh on human eyes. As someone who spends more time than recommended looking at screens, this greatly interests me.
Meta’s announcement on Tuesday (7th) that, among other actions, it will end partnerships with fact-checking agencies in the US, replacing them with “community notes,” and relax restrictions on certain types of content, has alarmed many people.
Omnivore, the popular free read-it-later app, has been acquired by ElevenLabs, an AI startup focused on audio.
Even I, who prefer paper books, can’t deny the perks of e-readers like the Kindle—and, well, just the Kindle. In Brazil, you can pick any e-reader you want, as long as it’s a Kindle. (Kobo, Boox, and other brands don’t sell their devices here.)
ClassicPress is still going strong. After a new fork from WordPress, the project has now taken its own path, and it’s starting to pay off.
Sam Altman wrote a blog post titled “The Intelligence Age,” which I imagine wasn’t reviewed by OpenAI’s marketing team. Not just because it’s published on a domain with Altman’s name, but more because it’s a mediocre piece, so bad and filled with grand, empty, and/or unverifiable promises that I doubt even ChatGPT could generate it.
Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder and CEO of Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, made some strong criticisms of WP Engine, a WordPress-focused hosting company, during his closing speech of WordCamp US. He told the audience to ditch WP Engine if they were using it. Notably, WP Engine was a sponsor of the event.
We notice that Twitter (or X), which is now blocked here in Brazil, is an addiction when people come to other social networks and are shocked by the bare minimum of human decency — like the absence of scam and betting ads and extremist accounts paying for visibility, along with decent moderation tools, etc.