“Super likes are not an automatic match, but for the person you Super Liked your profile appears with a bright blue footer and star icon. They will also see a star icon next to your name in their matches. […] Tinder offers a blue star like check next to profiles…
How Advertisers Feel Now That They Can Pursue Class Action Over Facebook Ad Rates
According to Reuters U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco ruled yesterday that a lawsuit accusing Meta (Facebook’s parent company) of deceiving advertisers about “potential reach” of ads may proceed as a class action. The lawsuit was first filed in 2018. Ad agency DZ Reserve and other advertisers accused Facebook of inflating…
Suspects of Microsoft, Nvidia, and Okta hacks arrested
As Lapsus$ data extortion gang announced that several of its members are taking a vacation, the City of London Police say they have arrested seven individuals connected to the gang. A minor in Oxford, England, is believed to be among the leaders of the group that leaked closed source code…
Zoom News Round Up
Over the last few years Zoom has become a stupidly well know communications tool. A few years ago HR managers panicking, started Googling and implementing Zoom team building ideas. Well, a few years later, it’s more of the same. MacBook Webcams Are the Worst. Here’s How to Look Better on…
Lessons From Nearly 20 Years In The Metaverse
In 2003, Wagner James Au was a young freelance writer in the Bay Area covering massive multiplayer games like The Sims Online for Salon and Wired. During that time he got an assignment to review a new virtual-world game called Second Life, made by a company called Linden Lab. He started poking around…
“VC” Sunil Paul’s New Startup Doesn’t Understand Contracts
“Only after the contract was fully executed did Spring Free EV’s representative Visrin Vichit-Vadakan, demand I sign an adhesion contract on behalf of Push ROI. The new adhesion contract overwrote some terms of the already executed agreement. Visrin Vichit-Vadakan informed me that Spring Free EV would terminate that executed agreement…
‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ results on Google includes new search features
Google typically updates its search engine results page (SERP) gradually, by testing out new features or updating existing ones. However, the company may roll out more drastic redesigns and new search features under certain circumstances, such as when there is heightened demand for information about a new topic, like there…
After experiencing outages on Tuesday, Spotify and Discord say their services have been restored
Spotify, Discord and several other sites are beginning to recover after experiencing mass outages Tuesday morning. Users on Twitter said they were unable to access their Spotify accounts and experiencing message failures on their Discord accounts at just before 10 a.m. PT Tuesday morning. According to Down Detector, which tracks website…
YouTube bans Russian media outlets across Europe
Google’s YouTube said Tuesday that it would block Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik from Europe following similar bans by Facebook and TikTok. “It’ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action,” Google’s video streaming…
Fast Websites Good For SEO And UX
All those cool widgets and embeds you like because they make your site “better”. You know the chatbox, Yelp reviews carousel, the fly-in Instagram imbed that looks like a 90s PowerPoint slide, that neat jQuery-driven social share widget &c, those are making your site slow, and that’s bad for both…