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Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

"The public square is open again, and definitely not affiliated with X in any way."

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking throughout the night.

The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic "discover" feed.

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

Meta's settlement could force its biggest competitors to reshape their apps.

The NFL's long-standing partnership with Twitter (and now X) is continuing this season.

Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

File sizes have also been increased and uploads should be faster.

The company called on YouTube and TikTok to join it in setting time limits for teens.

SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists.

Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, […]

📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . When building voice-based AI interactions in the browser (avatars, voice bots, streaming AI), you’ll inevitably hit pitfalls stemming from audio physics and browser implementation quirks. This article compiles 16 traps I encountered during product development , organized in a symptom → cause → solution lookup format . No need to read from top to bottom—jump straight to the symptom you’re facing. Echo and Self-Response Issues 1. Avatar Responds to Its Own Voice (Despite echoCancellation: true ) Symptom : TTS audio is picked up by the mic, and STT recognizes it as user speech, creating a self-response loop. Cause : AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) requires a reference signal (the "sound to cancel"). Only the browser's official playback paths ( <audio> / WebRTC receiver tracks) serve as references. Custom playback via Web Audio API does not reliably function as a reference . Solution : Return TTS audio from the server as a WebRTC remote track and play it via an <audio> element. This eliminates echoes without text-matching workarounds (tested: 99 seconds of continuous speech with speakers on, zero false user turn detections). 2. Echoes Are Gone, but Speaking Simultaneously with the Avatar Distorts My Voice and Causes Misrecognition Symptom : Only during dual speech, proper nouns get mangled (e.g., "社員数" → "シャインズ"), especially at word beginnings. Cause : Fundamental AEC trade-off. To cancel echoes, AEC suppresses/distorts near-end (user) audio during dual speech. Solution : Mitigate in three layers: ① Increase mic Opus bitrate and enable FEC (see Pitfall 13) ② Provide vocabulary hints to STT (see separate article: use "recent avatar speech" as initial_prompt , not a dictionary) ③ Instruct LLM: "Input is STT transcription with potential errors. Interpret unnatural words as phonetically similar terms and add confirmation prompts." 3. Can’t Suppress Audio from Other Apps (Music, Videos) Symptom : Audio/lyrics fr

First Draft takes care of the busywork of video editing.

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.