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Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says

Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, according to new research.
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Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says

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