Welcome to the Tech Name Right Home for Wednesday, August 16th,

23. I'm Brian McCullough today. By the time you hear these words,

I guess I'll be a blue subscriber because I'm locked out of Tweet Deck otherwise.

Coinbase gets regulatory approval from one agency while the other is still suing them.

Generative AI in Google Search while Google Deepmind is contemplating doing

it for basically everything, and I guess we've entered the true first self-driving car test

phase. Hold on to your hats people. Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech. Well the party's over. Users of X Pro, previously known as Tweet Deck are encountering X Blue Paywalls when they try to use

the service this morning. That would include me. I hit the Paywall first thing as I sat down

at my computer. So at some point today I guess

I'm gonna become an X blue subscriber quoting the verge unfortunately we

knew this was coming as X announced on July 3rd that it would be making X Pro a subscriber-only feature.

It said at the time that the transition would happen in 30 days time, so the company missed its own deadline by just a bit.

Tweet Tech was one of the most popular third-party apps for accessing Twitter

until the company acquired it in 2011.

Its ability to support multiple accounts and multiple custom feeds made it a powerful tool

for journalists, marketers marketers and others that

found themselves regularly using Twitter for their day job.

Given that, charging for Tweet Deck and putting a pro on the name does make some sense, but it still sucks to have to pay for a useful tool

that was previously free end quote.

In other shenanigans, various outlets are alleging that

some of them now removed on T.CO links to

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