March 1, 20230CommentsIn a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlined his key priorities and teases upcoming features, including generative AI tools for creators and Shorts updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
March 1, 20230CommentsA survey of 810 Uber and Lyft California drivers: ~66% have experienced deactivation, 30% of whom were never told why, and 43% were sexually harassed on the job (Asian Law Caucus)
March 1, 20230CommentsNansen: investors pulled $6B+ out of the BUSD stablecoin in the past month after US regulatory pressure; BUSD was ~40% of Binance’s trading volume in December (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)
March 1, 20230CommentsTikTok adds new well-being features for teens and others, including screen time controls, default settings for teens, and expanded Family Pairing (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
March 1, 20230CommentsTwitter users globally report multiple outages for over an hour, including its timeline failing to load on web and mobile; most users can still tweet (James Vincent/The Verge)
March 1, 20230CommentsA look at Belarus’ once-vibrant tech startup scene, decimated after ruthless repression by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Clément Girardot/Rest of World)
March 1, 20230CommentsHow the proliferation of shock sites like Goatse, which can be traced back to Rotten.com, defined the modern internet era and informed how we use the web today (Blake Hester/VICE)