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Reddit back online after a software update took it down

Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco. When trying to access Reddit’s homepage, users were met with the message, “Server error. Try again later.” The company itself reported a “degraded status” for Reddit.com as of 1:16 […]
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Reddit back online after a software update took it down

Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden

Music, podcasts, audiobooks…emergency alerts? Spotify’s latest test has the streaming app venturing into new territory with a test of an emergency alerts system in its home market of Sweden. According to code references found within the Spotify app, the company is considering a system that would help distribute public announcements related to things like “accidents, […]
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Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden

TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers

Reddit is taking a stand against AI companies — or at least asking them to pay up. Earlier this week, Reddit announced that it’s changing its Robots Exclusion Protocol, also known as its robots.txt file. This dry-sounding edit is part of a larger negotiation/battle between the AI companies that are hungry for content they can […]
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TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers

Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized […]
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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more