Jacob Kastrenakes
The latest volley in the WordPress beef:
WordPress.org’s contributor login page now requires users to certify that they are “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.” 404 Media spotted the new checkbox.
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Jay Peters
iCloud.com finally gets dark mode.
You can also set a background color, see pinned notes, and more. MacRumors has the full list of updates.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Wes Davis
The shortcut to AI-generated smartphone-style photos.
As a reminder that AI image generators’ training data tends to include peoples’ regular smartphone photos, try entering an iPhone-like picture file name into the prompt field for Flux1.1 Pro, as this person did.
I got some similar results when I tried prompts like “IMG_4001.JPG” with its predecessor, Flux.1, a model that drives xAI’s Grok-2 image generation.
David Pierce
Wes Davis
Lego’s site was hacked to promote fake crypto.
An X post spotted by The Brick Fan flagged to the company yesterday that its online shop was displaying a “LEGO Coin” cryptocurrency banner.
Naturally, there is no such thing; Lego tells Engadget that the situation was quickly resolved and no user data was compromised.
Wes Davis
YouTube has almost reversed all the damage from a channel-deleting glitch.
After a bug “incorrectly flagged” some channels for spam and removed them, YouTube started working on getting the channels back. That’s done, the Team YouTube X account posted — now it’s just working to get the last few videos reinstated.
Wes Davis
Texas is suing TikTok for sharing minors’ personal data.
State Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that TikTok has violated the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act by not giving parents control of their kids’ privacy and account settings, writes Reuters. TikTok denied the allegations in a statement to The Texas Tribune.
TikTok A federal judge blocked part of the act requiring large social networks to stop harmful content from reaching minors just prior to the law taking effect on September 1st.
The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring.
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Mozilla on the future of advertising and privacy.
In a blog post, Mozilla president Mark Surman writes about the organization’s plans to fix the “fundamentally broken” online advertising industry:
We have the beginnings of a theory on what fixing it might look like — a mix of different business practices, technology, products, and public policy engagements. And we have started to do work on all of these fronts.
You can read Mozilla’s full plan in the post linked below.
Jess Weatherbed