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Snapchat Memories Paywall: Why the App’s New Storage Fees Might Change How You Use Social Media

Snapchat Memories Paywall: Why the App’s New Storage Fees Might Change How You Use Social Media

The Story Behind Snapchat’s New Storage Fees When Snapchat introduced its Memories feature in 2016, it promised to let users save their photos and videos safely in the cloud, separate from their camera roll. For nearly a decade the feature has served as a digital time capsule—allowing users to relive birthdays, graduations and everyday moments by pulling up Snaps from years past. The sheer volume of content is staggering: Snapchatters have stored more than one trillion memories on the platform newsroom.snap.com. This growth has outpaced the company’s expectations and, according to Snap, is straining its infrastructure. On 26 September 2025, Snap quietly
2 October 2025
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse: The AI Morning Briefing That Could Replace Your News App

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse: The AI Morning Briefing That Could Replace Your News App

What Is ChatGPT Pulse? ChatGPT Pulse is a new feature in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that delivers a personalized daily briefing – essentially, your morning news and to-do update crafted by AI. Announced on September 25, 2025, Pulse flips the usual script of chatbot interactions. Instead of you opening ChatGPT and asking questions, ChatGPT now starts the conversation each day axios.com. OpenAI is rolling it out as an experiment in making ChatGPT more proactive: it sends users a set of tailored “updates” every morning based on what it knows about you, from your recent chats to your schedule bloomberg.com. In practical terms,
27 September 2025
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From OpenAI’s $500B AI Bet to Instagram’s 3B Users – Inside Tech’s Wild 48 Hours

From OpenAI’s $500B AI Bet to Instagram’s 3B Users – Inside Tech’s Wild 48 Hours

Key Facts Artificial Intelligence & Big Tech OpenAI’s $500 Billion Supercomputer Push: In a massive scale-up, OpenAI (with partners Oracle and SoftBank) unveiled plans for five new AI mega–data centers across the U.S., bringing its Stargate infrastructure to 7 GW capacity and over $400 billion invested openai.com. This puts OpenAI ahead of schedule toward a $500 billion, 10 GW goal by end of 2025 openai.com openai.com. “AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it,” CEO Sam Altman said, framing compute as the key to future breakthroughs openai.com. Nvidia, which earlier this week agreed to invest up to $100 billion in
25 September 2025
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The 2025–2026 Content Monetization Gold Rush: How Creators Are Cashing In Across Every Platform

The 2025–2026 Content Monetization Gold Rush: How Creators Are Cashing In Across Every Platform

The global creator economy is valued at about $156 billion today and is projected to exceed $500 billion by 2030, growing at roughly 22.5% annually. More than 50 million people worldwide identify as creators, with annual growth of about 10–20%. YouTube pays creators 55% of ad revenue, with ad RPMs typically ranging from $1.61 to $29 per 1,000 views depending on niche. Patreon has paid out over $1 billion to creators, while Substack now has over 5 million paying subscribers across its publications. TikTok’s Creator Rewards program pays RPMs from about $0.40 to $1.00+ per 1,000 views and includes Series
1 August 2025
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Creator Economy Buzz: Major Platform Updates, New Monetization Tools & Big Partnerships (July 30–31, 2025)

Creator Economy Buzz: Major Platform Updates, New Monetization Tools & Big Partnerships (July 30–31, 2025)

On July 30, 2025, YouTube relaxed monetization rules for profanity, allowing ads if strong language appears only in the first ~7 seconds (instead of demonetizing content for mild swearing in the first 8–15 seconds). TikTok introduced Creator Care Mode, an AI-driven one-click tool that filters offensive or spammy comments according to a creator’s preferences. TikTok added a bulk comment muting tool for Live streams to mute words, phrases, or emojis and auto-mute repeat offenders. TikTok launched Creator Inbox, a dedicated messaging hub with Unread and Starred folders and quick-reply templates. TikTok rolled out Creator Chat Rooms for invite-only group discussions
31 July 2025
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Inside the NSFW AI Revolution: How AI-Generated Porn Is Changing the Game and Courting Controversy

Inside the NSFW AI Revolution: How AI-Generated Porn Is Changing the Game and Courting Controversy

The Take It Down Act was passed in April 2025 and signed into law in May 2025, making it a federal crime to create or share nonconsensual AI-generated intimate imagery and requiring platforms to remove such content within 48 hours. In May 2025, Mr. Deepfakes shut down after a critical service provider withdrew support, effectively dismantling the central hub of the deepfake porn network. A landmark Sensity report found that 95–96% of online deepfakes were nonconsensual sexual imagery, highlighting the scale of this abuse. In May 2024, Google updated its policies to ban advertisements for platforms that create deepfake porn
30 July 2025
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Switzerland’s Digital Backbone: A 2025 Guide to Internet and Satellite Connectivity

Switzerland’s Digital Backbone: A 2025 Guide to Internet and Satellite Connectivity

As of early 2024, about 8.74 million people in Switzerland were internet users, roughly 99% of the population. More than 96% of people aged 15–88 use the internet, and 51% of those aged 75+ report online daily. By the end of 2022, fixed broadband subscriptions reached 48.2 per 100 inhabitants, the highest rate in the OECD. The fixed broadband market is led by Swisscom with around 48% share in Q4 2022, followed by Sunrise about 28%, Salt around 4%, and Quickline plus regional networks about 13%. Fiber deployment covers about 46% of Swiss homes by 2023, with Swisscom targeting 57%
11 July 2025
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Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, YouTube rolled out a wave of features around VidCon, including new audience segments “New,” “Casual,” and “Regular” viewers. The YouTube Community Tab became available to all channels and now lets fans post from mobile. YouTube Shorts gained shopping stickers globally with tests showing 40% higher product click-through in the U.S. YouTube reports viewers spend 80 million hours per day watching shopping-related videos. YouTube expanded auto-sync video editing for Shorts to automatically match music beats. YouTube introduced a Fan Leaderboard for live chats globally and added animated donation GIFs (US-only). YouTube launched Player for Education, an ad-free embeds
10 July 2025
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Major Internet and Technology News Roundup – June 30, 2025

Major Internet and Technology News Roundup – June 30, 2025

On June 30, 2025, X hires Nikita Bier, founder of tbh and Gas, as Head of Product to revitalize the main feed and engagement features, after advising Musk’s xAI since late 2024. U.S. District Judge Julien Neals denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust case filed in 2024, allowing the suit alleging an App Store and ecosystem monopoly to proceed. Apple is reportedly considering outsourcing Siri to Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s GPT models on Apple’s cloud, with internal tests showing Anthropic’s models performing better and a fully Apple-built “LLM Siri” planned by around 2026, though no decision has been
30 June 2025
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SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

From March 13–27, 2025, Google rolled out a broad Core Update focused on relevance, quality and user intent. In 2024 Google released four confirmed core updates (March, August, November, December), with the December update rolling out in six days—the fastest on record. Google’s 2024 spam updates targeted keyword spam, malicious content, and link schemes, with SpamBrain and a scaled-content policy emphasizing behavior over quantity. By 2025, Core Web Vitals consist of LCP, CLS and INP, with INP replacing FID and thresholds of LCP under ~2.5s, CLS under 0.1, and INP in a good range. Google’s mobile-first indexing is fully in
27 June 2025
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Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50% by 2027. The global AI agent market is projected to grow from $5.1 billion in 2024 to $47.1 billion by 2030, a 45% CAGR. The EU AI Act, in force since 2024, bans AI with “unacceptable risk” from February 2025 and will add transparency and
27 June 2025
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The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

By the end of 2022, 89.5% of Belarusians were online, with about 8.27 million internet users and 86.9% penetration recorded by early 2023. Beltelecom reported about 2.9 million GPON fiber subscribers by the end of 2022, a figure that reached roughly 3 million by mid-2024. Approximately 82.4% of small settlements with 50–100 inhabitants have access to fiber-optic broadband. As of April 2024, 4G LTE coverage reached 93% of Belarus’s territory and 99% of its population via the beCloud network. MTS Belarus had around 5.7 million mobile subscribers, A1 about 4.8 million, and life:) about 1.5 million as of 2024. There
1 June 2025
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