Creators

The former President, who once attempted to ban the platform, posted his first video to it yesterday under his usual handle of @realdonaldtrump.

As Politico notes, Trump reversed his stance earlier this year after momentum behind the ban abruptly rekindled and President Biden signed it into law.

And yet, Matty Benedetto has amassed millions of subscribers with his Unnecessary Inventions. Tune into my new video series, Full Frame: Creators, where I spend a day with a creator to see how they have found success on the internet.

Hank Green is mad about the price of YouTube Premium, because it’s more expensive than Premium is everywhere else. The reason why is all about buttons and links and app store commissions, and you definitely don’t need Rocket Money to solve this problem, but Green is right about the bigger point here.

The lesson, as always: listen to Hank Green.

Oral arguments in its case against the federal divest-or-ban bill will be scheduled for this September, according to an order from the DC Circuit Court. That’s just months before the initial January 19th deadline its Chinese owner ByteDance has to sell the app or face a ban. The clock keeps running unless the court says otherwise.

While the issue seems fixed today, Reddit users reported that and other problems, like videos that couldn’t be unmuted, in a thread spotted by 9to5Google. The solution was apparently disabling ad blockers. We saw the same behavior at The Verge.

It’s not clear if this was related to YouTube’s ongoing crackdown on ad blockers, or problems with the ad blockers themselves.

The keffiyeh has become a symbol of the movement for Palestine, and model Bella Hadid wearing a keffiyeh-inspired dress at Cannes was a political statement. The head scarf has been banned by some government bodies.

Clothing has always been a core part of culture — a way to communicate ideas and identities. Last summer I wrote about Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) and ongoing efforts to digitize and protect it.

Creators can edit and manage content, access post analytics, and view their monetization in the TikTok Studio app, the company announced today. A web version of the platform is already live.

Sure, OpenAI may be facing legal troubles for its ChatGPT voice. But it kind of looks like the company has already lost in the court of public opinion...

According to current employees who spoke to The Information after being told of the cuts: 

“The layoff will affect a large percentage of the roughly 1,000 people working in TikTok’s global user operations, content and marketing.”

TikTok cut about 60 workers from its sales and advertising teams back in January.

Pew research found that more than a third of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible. 23 percent of news webpages have at least one broken link, and 54 percent of Wikipedia articles have at least one reference link going to a page that doesn’t exist anymore.

Wired found thousands of event listings that violated the platform’s policies, including pages claiming to sell drugs, escort services, and social media engagement.

Sometimes, the recommended events were offensive or potentially harmful: pages promoting illegal drug sales were displayed next to addiction recovery events, for example.

We saw the video editor’s new feature demoed at Microsoft’s Surface event in Richmond, where new Copilot Plus Surface Laptops and an updated Surface Pro with Qualcomm’s AI-ready chips have been announced.

The demo suggests the CPU and GPU won’t have to break much of a sweat, if any, when offloading tasks like these.

Native Arm64 versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Firefly, and Express are available starting today, Adobe announced at the Surface event going on in Richmond right now. Illustrator and Premiere Pro won’t be far behind with June arrivals.

New Copilot Plus laptops and tablets with the architecture will be able to run the apps as soon as they arrive.

Remember that 15-year-old Tolkien fan movie that Warner Bros. pulled from YouTube last week for sharing the same name as its upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum title? Well, it’s back!

Adrian Webster, who played Aragorn in the fan-made film, told IGN:

“Perhaps it was an automated copyright block due to the same title. It’s not quite clear. Anyway, we’re happy it’s back online again just now.”