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Meta’s transition to the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is confusing. Does Facebook’s owner see open protocols as the future? Will do embrace…
xAI, Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, closes with $6 billion in funding, and X, its social network, is already one of its shareholders
xAI, Elon Musk’s 10-month-old competitor to the AI phenomenon OpenAI, is raising $6 billion at an $18 billion pre-money valuation, according to a reliable source close…
Two widowed founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma
After losing their spouses in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered that there were no proper places where people could go…
AirChat, the buzzy new social networking app, could be great — or it could suffer the same fate as Clubhouse
Over the weekend, another social media platform exploded into the fray: AirChat. The app is like a combination of Twitter and Clubhouse. Instead of typing a…
Truth Social, the social media platform owned by Donald Trump’s media company, has announced plans to launch a live TV streaming platform. The platform will focus…
Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push toward an open social web, is deepening its ties to fediverse,…
Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a speech-based rather than text-based social networking app
Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk”. An earlier version of Airchat was released last year, but the team —…
US consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole up to 341,650 social security numbers. The data breach was disclosed on…
When you join a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more and…
A day after researchers unveiled X’s plans to test NSFW adult communities on the platform formerly known as Twitter, the company confirmed that community administrators can…