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In an effort to limit online ad monopolies, the US Senate is seeking to pass the AMERICA Act (Advertising Middlemen Endangering Rigorous Internet Com Pet ition Accountability), to break up ad Business es of tech giants like Google and Meta. According to the Act, large digital ad firms won't be allowed to own both sides of an ad exchange, where they have ownership over demand and supply-side platforms. Additionally, those buying and selling ads can't own both the demand and supply side of the ad platform, except to only sell their ad stock. Medium-sized companies will also be required to make the "best execution" for ad bids, instead of just holding back to serve their operations. The Act emphasises transparency and access to technical capabilities and data. Read  Twitter's biggest users refuse to pay for blue checkmarks If a business, however, does run two sides of the market, it will need to establish "firewalls" to minimise abuse and conflic...

Microblogging platform Twitter will be giving free checkmark s to the top 500 advertisers and the 10,000 most followed companies . Twitter is making multiple changes to its verification process. The current procedure for verification will be changing in the month of April. As per the new plan, companies will have to pay $1000 per month to retain their checkmark . However, there is an exception for the top 500 advertisers and the 10,000 most followed companies . The strategy comes as a move to combat the effect of the prices on the Twitter community. Considering how the platform responded to individual checkmark s with fake accounts and much more, the changes for companies are also raising concerns in this regard. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-checkmark-to-be-free-for-10-000-most-followed-companies-TheFOXposts-16878.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

A US woman has warned against a TikTok trend after it landed her in the hospital. Lana Clay-Monaghan was shopping with her children at a Southern California Target when a group of teens, influenced by TikTok, played a prank on her that landed her in the hospital . She was looking at baby products when everything suddenly went dark. Something had been placed over her head. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Confused, alone and frightened, the mother of two twin boys could hear people around her laughing. “I immediately felt something come over me — a human presence behind me,” she said. “I started screaming. It was really abrupt. It really scared me. “When I turned around, it was a group of male individuals filming me. “I know they were filming me because the (camera) light was on. “They all had their phones and they were laughing.” US mum Lana Clay-Monaghan has issued a warning after she fell victim to a TikTok trend. Credit: Facebook Security ca...

Spotify launched 'Niche Mixes', a set of personalised playlist s based on familiar songs and recommendations into specific categories. An expansion of Spotify's Mixes playlist feature, the new addition enables users to have more control over what they listen to. Announcing the feature launch, the platform said, “No matter the moment or occasion, you’ll receive a personalized Mix rooted in familiarity, combining music from artists, genres, and decades you already know and love with songs we think you’ll enjoy that match the moment.” The feature will neatly sort out music preferences into playlist s automatically, especially for those too lazy to do so. Users can also manually search for specific words for better recommendations like, 'activities, vibes, aesthetics, etc'. Spotify Mixes are available globally to Free and Premium users, with a selection of mixes chosen by Spotify under ''Made for you' hub. Each mix is updated ...

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's systems. Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it previously fixed and disclosed over the summer. Another 600 million pieces of user data "could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident," Twitter said in a blog post. "There is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. The data is likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources," it said. The social media company told users in August last year that a system vulnerability revealed Twitter accounts of users by submitting their email address or phone number, after the company learnt about it through a bug bounty program months earl...

Levi's has partnered with AI company for computer- generate d fashion model s to “ supplement human model s.” The “digital transformation journey” of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability, as the company claims, will merely hire a robot to generate the appearance of diversity. Founded in 2019, Levi-Straus is collaborating with Amsterdam-based digital model studio Lalaland.ai for this new initiative. The company is aiming for customers to see what fashion items would look like on “hyper-realistic” model s “of every body type, age, size and skin tone.” In its announcement, the company said, “We see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.” Though Levi's claims that “AI will likely never fu...

Experts have raised the alarm over a diet trend on social media platforms including TikTok which they say is spreading “ Health misinformation”. “What I Eat In A Day”, or WIEIAD, videos online are incredibly popular, but social media users are warned to take these videos with a grain of salt. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Researcher warns of dangers of ‘What I Eat In A Day’ trend . Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> WIEIAD, videos have been popular on social media for years and first grew in prominence on YouTube. These videos feed consumers an endless dialogue of diet culture, promoting diets including those with no sugar, or that are high in protein, or with a focus on weight loss. A study from the University of the Sunshine Coast found the videos were doing more harm than good. “What we found was there was actually a lot of health misinformation in these videos,” Dr Naomi Smith, a sociology lecturer at USC said. These videos often recommend now-debunked trend s...