The Associated Press issues AI guides for the newsroom, New York City bans TikTok on city-owned devices, and Snapchat’s AI assistant glitches and posts Stories to users’ feeds.

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Tom Merritt looks at News, Sports and Weather and gives his non-expert opinion on what he considers some of the most notable news of the day. It’s like reading the morning paper with Tom.

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Intel gives up on acquiring Tower Semiconductor, Foxconn begins making the next iPhone in India, and scientists reconstruct a Pink Floyd song from brain recordings.

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A show about life on the internet. That includes social media, memes, viral videos, and everything in between. In this episode we discuss X, the company formerly known as Twitter, as well as its many competitors. Plus we touch briefly on the “Attenzione Pickpocket” lady and the Pinkydoll trend on TikTok.

Starring Nicole Lee and Karissa Bell

Follow Karissa Bell on X (Twitter)
Follow Nicole Lee on X (Twitter), BlueSky and Mastodon

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Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X
https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-is-rebranding-twitter-to-x-and-killing-the-bird-logo-165944573.html

Twitter’s rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
https://www.engadget.com/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-worsen-its-legal-and-financial-problems-233914973.html

Twitter becomes X
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

“The everything app”: why Elon Musk wants X to be the WeChat of the west
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/29/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-rebranding-everything-app-for-west

Is decentralization the future of social media?
https://www.engadget.com/is-decentralization-the-future-of-social-media-194554192.html

Inside Twitter rival’s Bluesky first major crisis
https://fortune.com/2023/07/31/inside-bluesky-moderation-crisis-investor-pushback-user-backlash-ceo-apology/

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network

Threads adds chronological feed
https://www.engadget.com/threads-adds-a-chronological-feed-as-twitter-burns-to-the-ground-152817251.html

“Attenzione pickpocket” vigilante found to have far-right links
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/italys-attenzione-pickpocket-social-media-monica-poli-found-to-have-far-right-links

A woman on TikTok started talking like a robot for money. Then came the imitators
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/07/25/npc-streaming-trend-robots-orig-js-sc.cnn

The Whitehouse requests to challenge Florida and Texas social media laws, Tesla launches ‘Standard Range’ Model S and Model X vehicles, and get food delivered to your gate at large US airports…

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Apple Watch refresh set for 2024, cord-cutting may no longer be a money-saver, YouTube tests new adblocker block.

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