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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Threads accounts will have to be public to show in the fediverse.

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri posted a little more about the plan to integrate Threads with the fediverse.

While responding to some skepticism about pushing posts out to other ActivityPub instances, Mosseri said only public accounts will show in the wider fediverse outside of Threads, and — though he said this isn’t fully decided — only after users “explicitly opt in.”

Nick Statt
Nick Statt
Listen to Mina Hsiang revisit her time on the “surge” team that fixed HealthCare.gov.

In case you haven’t listened to the most recent episode of Decoder, Hsiang, who is now the United States Digital Service administrator, told us the inside story of how she helped fix the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov a decade ago. Read the full interview here, or listen to the podcast here.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
What can you find in today’s Google Doodle?

In celebration of Google’s 25th anniversary, the company created an interactive Where’s Waldo-style Doodle that’s filled with images of the most-search topics from 1999 to 2023. There are 25 images to find, and they range from Pikachu to Taylor Swift. It’s a nice way to kill some time!

Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge
David Pierce
David Pierce
The Arc browser for Windows is one step closer to real.

The Browser Company has been teasing a Windows version for a while now, and the app is apparently almost ready! So far only a few people are testing it — the “Beta Testers Onboarded” count is at a whopping four as I type this — but CEO Josh Miller says he hopes the waitlist will be empty by spring. (If you want to get on said waitlist, here’s the link.)

Arc for Windows

[www.isarconwindowsyet.com]