Threads likely to show ads as soon as the second half of 2024

As a reminder, Threads is Meta's Instagram-backed Twitter competitor. According to Digiday, Meta has been promoting Threads' upcoming advertising features to a selection of executives working in the advertising industry. The advertising features would arrive in the second half of 2024, a bit more than a year

post.news is shutting down

Noam Bardin, CEO of the social network post.news: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We

Safari: Restyle a folder icon with an emoji in the bookmark bar - Guide #7

Discover how to restyle a folder icon with an emoji in the bookmark bar with Safari

Guess The Plot #3

Can you identify the data represented on the plot?

🚀 Homebrew: Uninstall orphaned packages - Guide #6

Discover how to uninstall orphaned packages with Homebrew

What is a dependency? - Wiki #15

Discover what a dependency is in programming

🚀 Homebrew: List installed packages - Guide #5

Discover how to list installed packages with Homebrew

Guess The Plot #2

Can you identify the data represented on the plot?

New online sessions for my two-days workshop "Getting Started with R for Busy People" are open

A workshop for busy people who want to get started with R

Air Canada had to refund a customer after its customer service AI hallucinated

In February 2024, a Canadian court forced Air Canada to partially refund the airline ticket purchased by one of its customers. The customer had asked the customer support AI bot under which conditions Air Canada reimburses emergency-purchased airline tickets when a loved one dies. The bot responded by hallucinating a

Daniel Kahneman has passed away

I just learned on Bluesky that the American-Israeli psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman has passed away at the age of 90. During his long scientific career, Daniel Kahneman helped to show that psychological mechanisms, including cognitive biases, have a substantial influence on human decisions. Trained as a psychologist, his work

X's lawsuit against a group fighting online hate has been dismissed

In July 2023, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group fighting against online hate, published a series of reports claiming that X, formerly Twitter, does very little moderation of various hate speeches. In response, Elon Musk announced that X was going to sue the CCDH, alleging that the