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Post launched in 2022 as a way to read ad-free news articles and paywalled content with a points-based system. But now, it’s rolling out a number of improvements, including native comments you can leave on feeds, repost, and tag people in.

With a little casual hexadecimal memorization and pattern recognition skill, you can become a QR code-reading machine — no pesky computer required!

The unsubscribe option now shows up when hovering over emails in Gmail on the web, rather than after opening them. Meanwhile, you’ll find the option at the top of opened emails in the iOS and Android Gmail app, rather than tucked away behind the three dots menu. Hooray, discoverability!

Google is adding AI image generation to Bard tomorrow, according to developer Dylan Roussel, who shared a screenshot of a changelog dated for tomorrow.

GameStop will shut down the NFT marketplace on February 2nd “due to the continuing regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space,” reported by Decrypt yesterday.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg suggested Tumblr’s unloved Live service wasn’t long for this world last year, and it’s now shutting down January 24th. Users can transfer any in-app currency they bought to the video chat service MeetMe, which uses the same underlying tech. The Tumblr userbase, unsurprisingly, seems pleased.

The API went down on December 28th, preventing third-party apps like iA Writer or Ulysses from publishing to Medium.

As announced last month, today 1 percent of Chrome users will see a notification when they open Chrome on desktop or Android if selected to try Google’s new Tracking Protection feature. The Wall Street Journal has a writeup on what it could mean for advertisers, with some thinking Google’s moving too fast, some relieved it’s finally happening, and everyone waiting to see how it goes.

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

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.