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X rolls out its real-time search tool, Radar, to Premium+ subscribers

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As competition from newcomers like Bluesky and Threads increases, X on Monday launched a “Radar” trend analysis tool that aims to offer subscribers real-time insights into emerging trends and conversations on the platform. The tool, previously known as Insights, was initially targeted at Verified Organizations (businesses), allowing marketers to track topics and trends on the […]

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Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

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On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator,

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Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price

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Federal authorities announced Thursday the arrest of a man in Alabama, accusing him of participating in the hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission X account earlier this year. Eric Council Jr. was indicted in connection with the SEC X account hack, which happened on January 9, when the account published a post falsely

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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

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Earlier this year, Abel founder Daniel Francis was going 135 miles per hour down a highway in Oakland, California. The driver, a police officer, had a gun in his lap.   Francis has made a habit of riding shotgun with policemen in the name of research for his company, which creates AI to fill out police

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Meta’s Threads app references a communities feature, similar to Elon Musk’s X

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Meta’s take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor’s territory with the development of a communities feature that would presumably allow users to better organize their discussions on the platform by topics. At least that’s what references in the app’s code seem to imply. The code mentions a new

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X rival Mastodon rolls out revamped notifications, a refreshed look and more

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Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is rolling out a handful of new features, including refreshed notifications, new discovery tools, as well as an updated look. Although some of these changes were available in nightly releases, they are now officially rolling out in a stable release. Notifications on Mastodon will now look somewhat

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The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out

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We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, but there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging back on — presents an opportunity to

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