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Emma RothJun 21, 2023

You.com, the AI search engine, is launching a paid subscription.

You.com was one of the first search engines to incorporate a ChatGPT-style chatbot, and now it’s one of the first to put unlimited access to AI tools behind a paywall.

The new YouPro subscription costs $14.99 / month (but currently costs $9.99 / month for a limited time), and gives you access to unlimited AI chat searches, unlimited AI image generation, unlimited text generation, and more. Will Microsoft and Google be next?

You.com Introduces YouPro, The All-In-One Subscription Featuring Latest AI Tools

[businesswire]

Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them

Jay PetersJun 21, 2023

The FCC is looking to regulate broadband data caps

Wes DavisJun 20, 2023

Google Chrome on iOS will let you search with just your camera soon

Tom WarrenJun 20, 2023

Google I/O 2023: all the news from Google’s big developer event

Verge StaffJun 20, 2023

Vimeo’s new AI script generator will write corporate marketing filler in seconds

James VincentJun 20, 2023

Reddit hackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes

Mia SatoJun 19, 2023

Microsoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS attack

Wes DavisJun 18, 2023

r/aww has joined the John Oliverening.

Yesterday, two of Reddit’s biggest communities that had previously gone dark in protest of Reddit’s API changes — r/pics and r/gifs — reopened as John Oliver stan communities following a user poll on whether they should do that or resume business as usual.

Today, r/aww announced it had done the same:

It was only fair to let you determine what r/aww should be about... and you overwhelmingly chose to only allow adorable content featuring John Oliver, Chiijohn, and anything else that closely resembles them.

Three of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible

Jay Peters

Jun 18

Wes DavisJun 18, 2023

Google Album Archive is going away on July 19th, 2023.

Chances are good you’ve never even heard of Google Album Archive, which keeps images from some Google products, like Blogger and Hangouts. An email Google sent out to users on Friday detailed some of the data to be affected (via Android Police):

1.Rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes
2.Some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive
3.Background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018

You can of course get the data before it’s tossed into the abyss — Google has a support page telling you how.

Download your content from the Google Album Archive - Picasa and Picasa Web Albums Help

[support.google.com]

Wes DavisJun 17, 2023

John Oliver approves of all the John Oliver posts on Reddit.

Someone told him about the technically-compliant re-opening of two popular subreddits — that is, that users at both r/pics and r/gifs voted to re-open, but as John Oliver image repositories — and he has tweeted his approval.

Not only that, but he shared several pictures for users to post.

Wes DavisJun 17, 2023

The subreddit protests may have had a small yet significant impact on Reddit’s traffic.

The subreddit blackout may have ended for many, but data from SimilarWeb may show that it has had a real impact, according to Engadget today — one that could explain threatening messages mods received this week.

The outlet saw documents showing a total 6.6 percent drop in daily visits from the day before the blackout’s June 12th start to the end of June 13th (about 57 million down to 52 million) as well as falling engagement time that Engadget says is a three-year low.

Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget

[Engadget]