Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, June 25th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

LinkedIn's changes mean peak newsfeed is truly behind us. Hackers have been stealing massive

amounts of phone data without even touching phones. Early impressions of the

recent Apple beta releases and Bill Gates fesses up to his greatest career failure.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

In a major strategy shift, LinkedIn says it will change its algorithm to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests as opposed to elevating viral content. In a way this is another nail in the

coffin for peak newsfeed as we know it. As Axios puts it quote newsfeeds that were fundamentally built to connect one voice to many

are struggling to deliver on value as communication trends move to more personal and ephemeral conversations.

The proposed changes include elevating content that users are more likely to join in conversation,

which typically means people that users interact with directly in the feed through comments

and reactions or people who have shared interests

with you based on your profile.

Also elevating a post from someone closer to a user's interests or network if it needs

more engagement, not if it's already going viral.

Elevating conversations with things that encourage a response, like opinions and commentary

alongside content, as well as posts that use mentions and hashtags to bring other people and interests into the conversation,

and elevating posts from users that respond to commenters.

After the changes niche topics of conversation will perform better than broad ones.

When it comes to length, LinkedIn says its algorithm doesn't favor any particular format,

despite rumors that it does, end quote.

Now in a way, the news feed inside LinkedIn has always

been a bit of an awkward thing. Facebook, Twitter, all the other newsfeed

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