Month: January 2023
Meet The Woman Selling An Eye-Popping Crypto-Themed House For Just Under A Mil
Her first foray into the rental market was advertising her landlord’s property on Airbnb. She decided to make the rental cannabis-themed, decorating it with ganja leaves and providing visitors a free joint on arrival. But, she said, “it was kind of a little rowdy.” Out-of-town visitors were getting robbed in…
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Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules
Twitter has updated its developer rules to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it unceremoniously blocked the apps’ access to its platform, offering almost no explanation to what was going on (via Engadget). The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create or attempt…
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Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine
Every morning around 9AM ET, CNET publishes two stories listing the day’s mortgage rates and refinance rates. The story templates are the same every day. Affiliate links for loans pepper the page. Average rates float up and down day by day, and sentences are rephrased slightly, but the tone —…
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Netflix’s paid password sharing to roll out ‘more broadly’ in the coming months
The era of Netflix password sharing will soon come to a close. Netflix has plans to enforce password-sharing rules “more broadly” toward the end of the first quarter of 2023, the company announced in its earnings report today. “While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household,…
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Reed Hastings is stepping down as Netflix’s co-CEO
Starting today, Greg Peters will step up from COO to become Ted’s co-CEO. Going forward, I’ll be serving as Executive Chairman, a role that founders often take (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc.) after they pass the CEO baton to others. Ted, Greg and I have been working closely together in…
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Meta’s bundling your Instagram and Facebook account settings in one place
In addition to bringing Ad preferences to Accounts Center, we’re also making improvements to some of the ad settings controls that can help people understand and manage their ads experience across our technologies. First, we’re updating our Data about your activity from Partners’ control, which is now called Activity information…
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