cyle gage
@cyle.dev
product person! probably gonna talk tech on here, and gardening, and photography, and who knows 🛠️ cyle.dev / cylegage.com 📸
the most kermit-nod on-brand rich person company purchase of the last 10 years www.theverge.com/news/718639/...
Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company
This yacht company is gaining steam.
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ah yes, a social feed in which nothing is real, taking my "hot take that's actually a joke" about myspace in 2005 all the way to reality techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/c...
Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app | TechCrunch
The social feed lets users share images, videos, and their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets of their chats with characters, post AI-generated images based on their chats with a...
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somehow Apple is fine with THIS being in the App Store, meanwhile every other app gets a harsh phone call and an app rejection if they have women in bikinis techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...
Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch
Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.
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i bet that one person working at twitter who quit long ago and was the sole person still supporting the vine archive is very upset right now, and rightfully so techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/e...
Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine's archive | TechCrunch
Elon Musk says the company will bring Vine's archive of videos back online.
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"A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date." - Wikipedia theglobe.com on May 22, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010522050731if_/http://www.theglobe.com:80
abnormally jazzed to note that i’ll be working as director of product at Raptive, helping to build a fun new creator-first community platform!
"we don't keep logs of conversations" but "there's no legal confidentiality when using chatgpt as therapist" cannot both be true, because if you're not keeping logs, then the conversation must be confidential, right? ...right? (OF COURSE they keep logs!) techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...
Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality fo...
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@asklumo.proton.me my chat history may be encrypted locally, but obviously something is being transmitted to a server and parsed on that server by a model. that part can’t possibly be encrypted by my keys. why not use a local model on device to ensure complete end to end encryption, no server?
everybody wants graphs with numbers going up and to the right! who wouldn’t want some more? techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/t...
Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned platform says the updates are focused on helping creators build audiences.
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age verification is coming for everybody, watch out folks, it's gonna be rough and privacy-invasive! www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
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even youtube knows that the monocultural singular trending feed is long dead www.theverge.com/news/704222/...
YouTube’s ‘Trending’ section is about to disappear
Charts are the new focus.
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nightmare fuel: your car transforming into MechaHitler as you're just trying to commute to work techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...
Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week,' says Elon Musk | TechCrunch
Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.
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meanwhile, testing tea consumption patterns 2,000 years into it is still worthwhile, thank you for your service dynomight.net/tea/
Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment
what brewing temperature is best?
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once again academia swinging into the scene 10+ years too late, thanks for missing the boat. neat you paid attention but shouldn't you be on the forefront rather than the backfoot? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder
(Forthcoming Article) - Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder’s impact on college students using its initial marketing focus ...
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had the random circumstance to be listening to many hours of Ozzy's Boneyard on SiriusXM and it was mostly a journey of me wondering how anybody, anywhere, could've ever been morally panicked about this kind of music. it's all so fun and obviously tongue-in-cheek! and great riffs, of course.
every day i wonder whether anybody could make this stuff up as a plotline for Silicon Valley or Black Mirror or something and i realize that we don't need dark satire TV anymore arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.
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big big DAU driver. can’t wait to see if the downstream bluesky stats move in tandem! www.theverge.com/news/699671/...
Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Alerts for things both important and unimportant.
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Both FAR games are currently heavily discounted in the Steam Summer Sale 🥰 A perfect time to gift it to friends or tell people to play it 🙏 store.steampowered.com/developer/ok...
just can’t imagine how this could go wrong, taking an essentially human-centric feature and handing it over to AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x...
X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes | TechCrunch
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes, a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service now called X.
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the fact that Anthropic literally "tore off the bindings" of books and then threw them away to get at what they wanted sounds exactly like how ruthless they are to me. knowing that, imagine what they're doing with that data and your data. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
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please realize that allowing an app to have complete access to your phone’s photo library inevitably leads to this, which is why iOS keeps asking if you’re really sure you wanna allow it www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...
Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.
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what’s “harmful to minors” is gonna be a fun space to watch. also, uploading your ID everywhere, not just for porn. just you wait. privacy and security engineers having nightmares already. techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/s...
SCOTUS porn ruling opens door to sweeping internet age verification | TechCrunch
Age verification in this context does not mean mindlessly clicking a box to declare that you are an adult — it means uploading government ID documents or using third-party verification platforms to pr...
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everything on social eventually comes back to brands wanting to get the social part out of the way and just have direct access to its audience techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/t...
TikTok is testing its own version of Instagram's 'broadcast channels' | TechCrunch
TikTok is testing a new bulletin boards feature, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
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i guess it has been long enough for us to rehash this movie theme again, ugh. when do i get a new Poseidon Adventure? www.theverge.com/news/693198/...
Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin will write and direct The Social Network Part II for Sony.
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another one for the “sure we destroyed the world, but for awhile there we created a lot of shareholder value” meme, thanks bernie techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/b...
Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek | TechCrunch
As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is.
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