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    Adam Mosseri was the PM for the “Facebook Phone.”

    Mosseri, who now heads up Instagram, talked a bit about the project in response to a post from our EIC Nilay Patel about the HTC First.

    If you want to do some time-traveling, check out Dieter Bohn’s review from 2013.

    I was the PM on that project (my first project as a PM). Clearly a failed product, but (1) we took a lot of good design ideas from it into the main apps in addition to chat heads, like immersive media and (2) what we lacked was a sufficiently valuable differentiator, which has in turn informed many projects since. Lots of lessons learned.
    Screenshot: Adam Mosseri (Threads)
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Six months later, Humane’s AI Pin is getting timers.

    David Pierce called out the lack of timers in his April review of the AI Pin, but now they’re here.

    The AI Pin is getting a bunch of other new features, too, thanks to the CosmOS 1.2 update that Humane says is starting to roll out.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    LittleBigPlanet 3 and its DLC are being delisted from the PlayStation Store.

    Grab the game and any DLC you might want before they go away on October 31st, 2024. If you already own the game and any content for it, you’ll still be able access that after everything is delisted.

    Sony shut down the game’s servers earlier this year.

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    Jay Peters
    Now you can suffer through old Connections puzzles.

    The New York Times is adding a Connections archive as a benefit for NYT Games and NYT All-Access subscribers. It’s available first for mobile web and desktop and will come to the NYT Games mobile app later this month.

    Wordle got a playable archive earlier this year.

    A screenshot of a message announcing the Connections archive.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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    Jay Peters
    Automattic’s lawyer: “The whole thing is meritless.”

    Automattic posted a response to the lawsuit from WordPress.com competitor WP Engine. The response includes a statement from Neal Katyal, who the company has retained as legal counsel:

    I stayed up last night reading WP Engine’s Complaint, trying to find any merit anywhere to it. The whole thing is meritless, and we look forward to the federal court’s consideration of their lawsuit.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Your YouTube account might not actually be spam.

    YouTube says some channels are being “incorrectly flagged for Spam and removed.” The company is reinstating affected channels — I hope it didn’t happen to you!