📀 Netflix Winds Down DVD-Rental Business
Plus: Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems, Meta encryption 'blindfolds' authorities to child abuse, agencies claim and more...
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Netflix Winds Down DVD-Rental Business. Netflix Inc. will ship its last red DVD envelopes in September, the company said, ending 25 years of mailing shows and movies to subscribers. The streaming service said in a Tuesday blog post that the mailed DVDs changed how people watch content at… (Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal)
Sarah Krouse: Meanwhile, Netflix says password sharing limits in the U.S. are coming in Q2
Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems. Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit's array of… (Mike Isaac / The New York Times)
rat king: Reddit will begin charging the biggest companies for API access, which has been used historically to train the coming wave of LLMs and artificially intelligent programs
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Meta encryption 'blindfolds' authorities to child abuse, agencies claim. FBI, Interpol and UK National Crime Agency among law enforcement groups warning about tech company's plans Receive free Meta Platforms updates (Hannah Murphy / Financial Times)
Financial Times: The FBI and Interpol are among 15 agencies that have jointly criticised the tech giant's plans for a 'purposeful design choice that degrades safety systems'
National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter. On Friday and throughout the weekend, multiple National Weather Service (NWS) accounts announced that Twitter had removed their API access, which would disrupt crucial potentially life-saving automated emergency updates. The move came as Twitter… (Matt Binder / Mashable)
Matt Binder: reports spread over the weekend that Twitter would exempt public safety accounts like the National Weather Service from its new limited API plans
Social media is doomed to die. Ellis Hamburger was a reporter for The Verge between 2012 and 2014 before leaving to work at Snapchat. After leaving Snap last year, he went to work at The Browser Company. We asked Ellis to write about what he learned during his time working for… (Ellis Hamburger / The Verge)
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