Adobe’s top lawyer discusses the future of copyright, why the Figma acquisition fell through, and why he’s optimistic AI won’t put creatives out of work.
We bought a 50-inch Frame for our bedroom since the middling picture quality isn’t an issue for a TV that will mostly be in Art Mode, but if we could have fit a 55 I would have been so tempted by the silly motorized mount that rotates it from landscape to portrait automatically. This wire wrapping and AC adapter situation is a little ridiculous, though?
His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back?
Business Insider dives into an AI-powered “SEO heist”: a shady SEO dude downloaded a competitors’ sitemap, fed it into an LLM, and generated a complete knockoff site that instantly stole traffic away to the tune of 600,000 impressions a month.
It’s SEO on steroids, and Jake Ward is has been more audacious than most industry players in taking advantage of this. The Exceljet heist is his AI-powered handiwork. And he’s unapologetic.
Ward argues that what he’s done is no different than any other SEO content strategist. Generative AI has just made it way faster.
Google’s SEO liaison and the SEO community can be as mad at us as they want for pointing out the comet, but the comet’s going to hit them. Don’t look up.
9to5Google reports that some YouTube TV subs are seeing a pop-up message noting that a long press of the OK or Select buttons on their remotes will quickly flip back to the last-viewed channel. That’s one of the best old-school cable box remote features there was, so let’s hope it rolls out wide soon.
Founding partner Ben Horowitz says the firm will get involved in politics for the first time as “non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.”
This is code for giving money to charmless deregulatory Republicans while claiming to have no interest in their policies on abortion, climate change, or immigration. It will be an entertainingly giant waste of money — maybe even more so than a16z’s web3 boondoggle or disaster history in media.
[Andreessen Horowitz]
You can now follow certain test Threads accounts on Mastodon as Meta begins enabling ActivityPub interoperability. It barely works right now — all you can do is follow so far, and posts don’t even show up yet - but Threads head Adam Mosseri’s account is storming up the charts and is now the third most followed account in the fediverse. The people want open and interoperable networks!
I’m getting a bunch of 500 errors, Down Detector reports have been spiking for about an hour, and there’s a Reddit thread of people noticing the same. It’s fine for other Verge staffers, though. How’s it looking for all of you?
Ten years after healthcare.gov, the fed’s tech consultancy wants you to help with the next big thing.
