Daring Fireball

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Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica:
But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off;Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keepusing Reddit.”
There was no way to skip, bypass, or close the overlay. It did notprovide any instructions or alternatives for continuing to use themobile web version. What it did offer was a large button I couldpress to get the app. If I did so, the overlay told me...

Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight
The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of crackingdown on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money,Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fakecompanies bypass its filters to enable the tech powerhouse toenjoy...

Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (News+ link to get around Wired’s miserly paywall):
Much more recently, I quizzed Ternus and global marketinghead Greg Joswiak about Apple’s future, specifically its plans toget ahead of the AI transformation. Ternus acknowledged that AI is“an immense kind of inflection point,” but couched it as one ofmany...