Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing? Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Gainful.com/techmeme Links: Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget) Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios) A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider) Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch) Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch) 1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget) Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record) Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat) US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them.
0:12.0	Magic Leap is back with a fresh 500 million
0:14.7	dollars. Canva gets into video while one password wants to make it easier for you to
0:19.7	actually share your password. Microsoft and NVIDIA claimed to have trained the largest
0:24.4	AI language model yet and when it comes to AI is China about to dominate
0:28.6	everyone else or are they only focused on one thing? Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.3	Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them
0:41.6	after testing the option for over a month.
0:44.2	Notice though that I said web users quoting and gadget.
0:48.2	All Twitter users can now remove a follower without having to block them.
0:51.2	To quietly stop someone from seeing your tweets in their
0:53.4	feed go to the followers tab on your profile click the three dot menu next to the
0:57.2	user in question and select the remove this follower option. This is part of
1:01.4	Twitter's efforts to reduce harassment on the platform.
1:04.0	Blocking someone you don't want to follow you could lead to retaliation from that person
1:08.0	via their allies or their secondary accounts after they find out.
1:12.0	But cutting them in this fashion and muting them will mean
1:14.8	they're none the wiser that they're out of the loop. This method won't prevent someone
1:18.7	you boot from your followers list from seeing your public tweets. Only blocking them or making your account private will do that."
1:25.0	End quote.
1:27.0	I sort of been letting the continuing Facebook controversy royal on without talking
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