The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Tate’s appeal, which challenged a judge’s decision last week to extend his arrest a fourth time for 30 days.
Twitter’s recommendation algorithm is now on GitHub, so you can see what makes tweets pop up in your For You Tab on the social network. We have all the details.
One of the writers that helped build out James Cameron’s Sully family in Avatar: The Way of Water, Josh Friedman, has been hired to pen the script for Marvel’s new Fantastic Four movie.
Google’s laissez-faire attitude to companywide perks is coming to an end as it looks to reallocate funds and create cost-cutting measures. Google laid off thousands of employees amid recession fears, and it’s also prioritizing Artificial Intelligence technology as the company takes drastic steps to keep up with other…
The US government might not lean solely on lawsuits to limit online ad monopolies. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AMERICA Act (Advertising Middlemen Endangering Rigorous Internet Competition Accountability — yes, it’s overwrought) with the intention of breaking up the ad businesses of tech giants like Google and Meta.
Large digital ad firms (those handling more than $20 billion in transactions) wouldn’t be allowed to own both an ad exchange as well as either a demand- or supply-side platform. A supply-side platform owner couldn’t own a demand-side system (and vice versa), while those buying and selling ads couldn’t own either of the other platforms except to sell their own ad stock.
Companies that are medium-sized or larger (those handling over $5 billion in transactions) would also have to make the “best execution” for ad bids rather than deliberately holding back to serve their own operations. They need to be transparent and provide fair access to technical capabilities and data. If they do run businesses on two sides of the market, they have to establish “firewalls” to minimize abuse and conflicts of interest.
The bill is sponsored by a seemingly unlikely mix of senators that includes Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren, among others. They aren’t subtle about the ultimate goal: they expect Google and Meta to divest “significant portions” of their ad businesses to comply with the would-be law. Amazon and Apple might also have to take the AMERICA Act into account, the politicians say.
The sponsors single out Google as the bill’s main target. As with lawsuits from the Justice Department and multiple states, the measure’s creators accuse Google of manipulating the ad market in ways that unfairly disadvantage competitors. Google’s control over a wide portion of the advertising system allegedly lets it charge “monopoly rents” across much of the internet.
We’ve asked Google and Meta for comment. They’ve previously fought bills and lawsuits meant to restrict their ad operations.
If the AMERICA Act passes, it would deal a significant financial blow. Google and Meta still rely on ad sales as their main sources of revenue, and in some cases use it to prop up other projects. Meta is sinking billions into its metaverse ambitions, as an example. While there’s no way of knowing just how much revenue these companies would lose through divestments, they might have to rethink their broader strategies.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/senate-bill-seeks-to-break-up-google-and-meta-ad-businesses-211308768.html?src=rss
Lindsey Graham Suggests Trump ‘Punch A Cop’ On The Way To Tuesday’s Arraignment
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Republican senator suggested Trump could “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop” to “avoid prosecution in New York.”
It’s easy to mistakenly add a name to an email or forget to add somebody who needs to recieve the contents of your message, Outlook has a feature to fix that.
A new chapter in the Evil Dead series is nearly here, with Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise shifting the demonic shenanigans from the deep, dark forest to a Los Angeles high-rise. The writer-director has spoken before about why Rise goes in a new direction, but in a new interview he gives more details about the decision.
Nearly a year after he first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a Twitter Space discussing the move, Elon Musk said he hoped users would be able to find potential “issues” in the code and help make it better.
“Our initial release of the so-called algorithm is going to be quite embarrassing and people are gonna find a lot of mistakes but we’re going to fix them very quickly,” Musk said.
Notably, the code released Friday only deals with how tweets are shown in Twitter’s “For You” feed. The company didn’t release the underlying code for its search algorithm or how content is displayed on other parts of Twitter, though Musk said the company would “for sure” open-source the search algorithm as well.
In a blog post outlining how Twitter’s recommendations work, the company explained the various steps of the algorithm, including ranking and filtering. But Twitter users have already been finding interesting details in the code itself. For example, Jane Manchun Wong noted that “Twitter’s algorithm specifically labels whether the Tweet author is Elon Musk.” That may offer yet another explanation for why Musk’s tweets appear so often. Wong also noted that the algorithm has labels indicating whether the tweet author is a “power user” as well as whether they are a Republican or Democrat.
Twitter’s algorithm specifically labels whether the Tweet author is Elon Musk
“author_is_elon”
besides the Democrat, Republican and “Power User” labelshttps://t.co/fhpBjdfifXpic.twitter.com/orCPvfMTb9
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 31, 2023
When asked about that aspect of the algorithm in the Twitter Space, Musk said “I agree that shouldn’t be there … it definitely shouldn’t be dividing people into Republicans and Democrats, that makes no sense.” A Twitter engineer followed up saying “it’s actually not too important.”
Developing…
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitters-recommendation-algorithm-is-now-on-github-200511112.html?src=rss
There’s A New Ruling On What You’re Allowed To Say About An Ex-Employer. Here’s What It Means.
Posted in: Today's Chili“Overly broad” nondisparagement agreements are unlawful, a new NLRB memo states — but you should read this before trashing your old workplace.