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  Steve Levitt

  

  4 hours ago

  The names of many iOS apps are changing as even big brands engage in keyword spamming

  9to5Mac - Ben Lovejoy

  The effectiveness of keyword spamming on the App Store is leading developers of many apps to change the names of their apps – including those owned by major brands … Apple commentator John Gruber noticed the trend, and was puzzled by it. Last week I noticed an update for an app on my iPhone with a …

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  Steve Levitt

  

  3 days ago

  We killed Instagram. And we'll kill the next social media beast, too.

  Mashable - Christianna Silva

  Instagram sucks!!! Thanks!! We killed Instagram. And we'll kill the next social media beast, too. In 2010, we were given a platform that did relatively few things: You could edit photos and post them on a grid, and your friends could comment on them. Even then we wanted it to change. We wanted DMs …

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  Steve Levitt

  

  2 days ago

  That message from 'Twitter Support' is almost certainly fake

  TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey

  Users on Twitter have been receiving messages purporting to be from “Twitter Support” urging them to act quickly to avoid suspension, often even from users with a blue check. But these are almost certainly scams — here’s what to look out for, and what it would look like if Twitter actually needed …

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  Steve Levitt

  

  21 hours ago

  Hackers might have figured out your secret Twitter accounts

  The Verge - Emma Roth

  A security vulnerability on Twitter allowed a bad actor to find out the account names associated with certain email addresses and phone numbers (and yes, that could include your secret celebrity stan accounts), Twitter confirmed on Friday. Twitter initially patched the issue in January after …

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  Steve Levitt

  

  9 hours ago

  AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms

  The Verge - James Vincent

  The US federal circuit court has confirmed that AI systems cannot patent inventions because they are not human beings. The ruling is the latest failure in a series of quixotic legal battles by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to copyright and patent the output of various AI software tools he’s …

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  Steve Levitt

  

  2 days ago

  This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as …