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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Facebook, please stop trying to bring back poking.

The platform has added a new “poke” button directly to users’ profiles, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. You can track all your pokes and build up a “poke count” on a dedicated page that just reminded me of everyone who poked me in 2010.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Four AI researchers are leaving Apple — including its lead for robotics research.

Jian Zhang, Apple’s head AI researcher for robotics, is headed to Meta, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The report also said that three other AI researchers are leaving Apple’s foundation models team, with two going to OpenAI and one to Anthropic — part of an increasing number of departures from that team in recent weeks.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
More tools to help T-Pain (and other creators) sort through Instagram DMs.

Now, users with 100,000 followers or more can narrow down DMs with the addition of new filters and the ability to create folders. Creators can also customize shortcuts to navigate to certain categories of messages, such as requests.

Maybe this will help solve T-Pain’s missing messages problem.