Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240912-the-archivists-battling-to-save-the-internet
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OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-model-reasoning-strawberry-chatgpt
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Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been fed into its artificial intelligence models.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data
“It’s a piece of work that everyone has thought of but never managed to create,” Richard Yu, Huawei’s consumer group chairman, said during the Mate XT livestream unveiling. “I have always had a dream to put our tablet in my pocket, and we did it.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/forget-everything-huawei-is-doing-two-folds-on-the-mate-xt-ultimate/
Back in May 2024, Google announced that YouTube would be getting some new ad formats on TVs, including a format that would place ads on screen whenever the video was left paused. There was no timeline given for when this format would start rolling out, but it appears to be showing up for some users now.
https://9to5google.com/2024/09/11/youtube-pause-ad-tv-update/
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A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms. In a letter on Monday, the attorneys general wrote that the warning labels will bring attention to the “inherent risks” social platforms pose to children.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24240920/state-ags-back-surgeon-general-social-media-warning-labels
The company has established itself as a simpler, more affordable alternative to legacy design software, but the “more affordable” part of the equation is becoming a little less true, with some Canva Teams subscribers seeing their pricing go from $120 per year to $500 per year — an increase of 300%.
https://techcrunch.com/video/techcrunch-minute-canva-faces-backlash-over-price-hikes/