”The machine learning algorithm will take into account a variety of signals, including how many people are talking about a given topic and how many people have engaged with posts on that same topic”

TechCrunch

In battle with X, Threads gets trending topics where politics will be allowed | TechCrunch

After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content, the company today announced a t...

Nostr challenge: find an up-to-date article that explains Nostr for someone who knows nothing about it and wants to know what it is (and uses Bluesky/Instagram/Facebook currently). But without any BTC, protocol, free speech, censorship resistance etc. stuff. Just like you would explain Snapchat or similar product. I could not find any with a quick googling. Nor I found any get started guide that was not filled with protocol etc talk. Nostr. com, nost.how are all about tech. News coverage is mainly from last year and from those topical angles.

MySpace wibes! View quoted note →

”If a web browser sucked out all information from web pages without users needing to actually visit them, why would anyone bother making websites in the first place?”

Engadget

Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?

Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-bu...

”When a touch, or even reasonably loud ambient noise, flexes the display panel, it will also flex the transducer, generating a voltage. This electrical signal could be harvested to charge the device’s battery, providing a level of energy harvesting that might prolong the time between charges.”

IEEE Spectrum

Smartphone Screens Are About to Become Speakers

Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both high-quality audio and touch feedback

”It took nearly a year for Solana to sell out 20,000 units of its first crypto phone. But the second phone has hit 100,000 pre-orders in just over a month.”

Solana's Second Phone Crosses 100,000 Presales, Securing $45M for Development

Solana Mobile's "chapter 2" smartphone could ship in early 2025.

Bsky is weird. A ”blocked post” was the parent skeet that I did not see but the replies to it were visible. The account I used did not have anyone blocking it nor was it part of any blocking list. Was the post / user blocked by the Bluesky instance?

This feature is for all you luddites who want to post first to X. Now you can get that out of your system without leaving the app and the next second get to the real deal. Apple is slow to review betas on Testflight so you just have to sit on your hands and stop staring at the laser-eyes tweet for now.

What does it take for that to happen? "It is a mistake to believe that the war can be won quickly. Russia is preparing for a long period of war. The war will continue until Russia realizes that it cannot win." https://kyivindependent.com/estonian-pm-russia-provoked-by-weakness-not-strength/

Farcaster at warp speed

”The advantages are that Ukrainian units get new soldiers who already have more training than Ukrainian recruits have time for. "These guys are battle-hardened, they know how to function out there in the trenches, but they're civilians who became soldiers out of necessity, they're not trained army men. The average Ukrainian soldier doesn't get much training time."

euronews

'If I die it's my choice': Finnish soldiers on Ukraine's front line

This is the story of Hobbit and Mariachi, two Finns who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, where the brutal Russian invasion strikes a chord close to...

Finland had last year (active montly users; population of 5,54m): - X & TT 1,5m - Snapchat 1,85m - Linkedin 1,7m - IG 2,3m - FB 2,4m - YT 4.62m TT is trusted more as a news source than X

DataReportal – Global Digital Insights

Digital 2023: Finland — DataReportal – Global Digital Insights

All the data, insights, and trends you need to help you make sense of the “state of digital” in Finland in 2023, including detailed statistics ...

”That puts a much greater emphasis on using heavy firepower to strike deep behind Russian lines to wear down the attacking force and break up its command and logistics. In short: heavy bombardment of Russian soil. “Western political leaders,” he warns, “may be squeamish about such attacks.” https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/02/10/fearing-russia-the-baltic-states-improve-their-defences

”a pair of lightweight AR glasses powered by a multimodal AI assistant called Noa… In addition to voice commands, Noa is capable of visual processing, image generation and translation, thanks to the handful of AI models it has integrated: conversational search engine Perplexity AI; Stability AI’s text-to-image model Stable Diffusion; OpenAI’s latest text-generation model GPT4; and the speech recognition system Whisper Frame’s lenses have a resolution of 640 x 400 for displaying videos and photos.”

TechCrunch

AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon GO creator | TechCrunch

In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented

”Russia’s war is not about NATO, or borders, or the balance of power. The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin intends to absorb Ukraine into a new Russian empire, and he will eradicate the Ukrainians if they refuse to accept his rule. Europe is in the midst of the largest war on the continent since Nazi panzers rolled from Norway to Greece, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is by far the most important threat to world peace since the worst days of the Cold War”

The Atlantic

If Russia Wins

Republican obstructionism could lead to global disaster.

”The FDF will also conduct logistics exercises and activate so-called production reserve agreements with civilian companies that keep extra capacity in place for the defense forces’ needs in crisis and war — akin to a war economy lite. In this pre-conflict period, sufficient availability and production capacity of everything from food supplies to machinery is tested with sustained warfighting in mind, as seen in Ukraine.”

CEPA

The Nordic-Baltic Region: An Example for NATO

Russia has now transformed to a wartime economy. Nordic and Baltic countries closest to Russia have got the message and are preparing.

The lesson here is that core privacy products you use should be only true open-source or this happens? ”As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff's product suite after a 6-month sunset period”

skiff.com

Skiff – Migrating your data

Guess what happens to the world’s chip production capability when Russia attacks the EU? ”ASML is the only maker of a key technology - extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography - needed to manufacture the most advanced chips… Koch's own calculations suggested it would only become cost effective to switch over from the older technology around 2030-2031…. "This means ASML is likely to have excess High-NA capacity between their factory ramp in 2027-28 and full adoption in leading-edge logic a few years later," he added.”

MSN

”It's going to take years for Europe to build up the arms and ammunition production capacity needed to both aid Ukraine and reequip national forces, Belgium's former deputy chief of defense said. “It’s not a joke, we’re in deep shit," The industrial fabric in Europe isn’t strong enough to support Ukraine."

Europe’s arms production is in ‘deep shit,’ says Belgian ex-general – POLITICO