The latest update for Signal Android [8.20] introduces comprehensive support for linked devices. Now you can easily link another Android phone or Android tablet to your Signal account. […] We’re also expanding linked device support on iOS [in version 8.22] so you can link an iPhone to your Signal account in addition...

Put another way, the ads give brands like Ally and the non-profit professional organization Project Management Institute another lever to pull on how they show up in generative search. LLMs can pick up a brand’s information from the ad and index it, which can then shape AI-generated responses, which in turn, can...

Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO and co-founder This one goes to the list of great ideas of the AI bros. As someone replied on X, “What if you just talked to your children?”

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Where’s Tamara?. A virtual logbook, with real-time tracking, of Tamara Klink’s current voyage. Tip from Digão on Órbita. Dustin Mierau. Another one of those personal sites...

Two years ago, I wrote about one of those “human made” badges used to signal content free of AI. Since then, these badges have spread across corners of the internet hostile to generative AI. In a somewhat viral post from the indie web, Case Duckworth lists a few reasons to reject them. His criticism isn’t aimed at...

The person who opened the “issue” asking for better E-Ink screen support in the Readeck app for Android, whom I mentioned in my first impressions of the Boox Go, gave us a gift this Sunday: they submitted a pull request toward this goal, along with a ready-to-use binary. It still needs some polish, but it’s already...

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. The Sites We Lost. An archive of sites that used to be part of The Useless Web and have since gone offline. clipart.studio. Make collages with paper magazines, except digitally....

Remember when I mentioned I was using my Kindle as a personal newspaper? And that this solution was ideal because I didn’t need to buy another gadget? I still stand by that, but I bought another gadget to be my “personal newspaper”: a Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi tablet. (Phew! From here on, I’ll just call it the Boox...

Editor's Note In this series, readers showcase what they carry in their backpacks on a daily basis. Check out the other backpacks that have been published and submit yours — the this series depends on you. I’m Keli Vasconcelos (she/her), journalist, freelance writer, and postgraduate in Public History, 44 years old,...

I’ll say it right up front: I’ve written my share of pieces on this topic, which doesn’t invalidate the observation Nicholas Carr made in his newsletter: I hate to be a cynic, but I’m guessing the main reason for the proliferation of these sorts of articles [about using your phone less] is that they’re algorithmic...

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. WikiCity. One more creative way to browse (or fly over) Wikipedia. Every entry is a building in a city made up of the encyclopedia’s 100,000 most-visited entries. For the...

Pictures by Hyperallergic. According to the website Hyperallergic, the London-based activist group Everyone Hates Elon pulled off this intervention on a bus-stop ad for Meta’s new pervert smart glasses created in partnership with celebrity Kylie Jenner. Depending on the angle from which someone views the ad, Kylie’s...