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Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in o

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

Executive Summary The NPM ecosystem is facing another critical supply chain attack. The popular @ctrl/tinycolor package, which receives over 2 million weekly downloads, has been compromised along with more than 40 other packages across multiple maintainers. This attack demonstrates a concerning evolution in supply chain threats - the malware includes a self-propagating mechanism that automatically infects downstream packages, creating a cascading compromise across the ecosystem. The compromised

The Helldivers community is coping with a spotlight it doesn’t want

“Yesterday was an interesting day for the Helldivers community.” That’s the very obvious understatement that announced the reopening of the Helldivers gaming subreddit in the small hours of Saturday morning. On Friday it was discovered that Tyler Robinson, arrested for the alleged killing of Charlie Kirk, had inscribed messages on the casings of several bullets found at the crime scene. One of those read “Hey fascist! Catch!” accompanied by an up arrow symbol, a right arrow, and three down arrow

Meta tests letting anyone rate Community Notes

As part of a new test, Meta will let anyone rate a Community Note or request one for a post, Meta's Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen shared on X . After testing the feature in March, the company formally introduced Community Notes as a replacement for its fact-checking program in April of this year. You have to apply to actually write Community Notes, but Meta's new test means that anyone who sees one can rate it to signal whether it's helpful or not. They'll also be able to request

Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts

Meta is introducing a few new features for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Now, users will be notified when they’ve interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it’s been helpful to them. We’re testing new Community Notes features at Meta: Anyone can now request a note or rate if a note is helpful – Users get notified when posts th

I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

So Long [Nova Launcher's FOSS release blocked by its owners,despite obligations]

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

AI is going great for the blind (2023)

As I was looking at the amount of times platforms died on the web and I began thinking about the slow death of AI enthusiasm and what that will do to the Blind community. It really is a bizarre feeling when you’re the only skeptic of a thing within your own community. My first post about AI has gained some attention, as well as the follow up post about this topic. AI is taking the blind community by storm. Be my Eyes has added it into their product to describe pictures, Let’s not mention the fa

Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring

Company Thunder Compute is the cheapest, easiest GPU cloud for developers. We’re a 4-person, seed-funded team (approaching Series A) with 100%+ MoM growth. 100% in-person, 6 days per week in SF. Our virtualization stack exposes network-attached GPUs over TCP, letting us oversubscribe hardware and pass savings to users. Role Own DevRel end-to-end. You’ll build and grow our community, ship hands-on demos and templates, teach developers how to run real workloads on Thunder, and bring sharp produ

Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

What you're basically telling everyone is: You can go over there and talk about Jigglypuff, and go over here and spew your racist, hateful crap. And it normalizes the latter. There are plenty of places on the internet to go find that stuff. Just not at our Javits Center, so to speak. The other thing that real life does really nicely, if we keep pushing this analogy, is if you show up in the Pokémon Con and you start spewing really crazy stuff, you get a response from the people around you. At

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to X, Threads, and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policies are meant to offer improved clarity and more detail around its user safety procedures and the appeals process. Many of the changes are being driven by new global regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the EU Digital S

Google could be building a gaming community forum directly into the Play Store (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new, in-app community forum for gamers within the Play Store. The feature will allow users to create posts, share tips, ask questions, and start discussions around games. We’ve been tracking a new forum-like feature within the Google Play Store for many months. Initially, the clues weren’t sufficient to reach a conclusion, so we refrained from sharing them. But now we’ve seen enough of them to preliminarily conclude that Google

Forget Reddit, Google wants gamers to use the Play Store as a forum (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new, in-app community forum for gamers within the Play Store. The feature will allow users to create posts, share tips, ask questions, and start discussions around games. We’ve been tracking a new forum-like feature within the Google Play Store for many months. Initially, the clues weren’t sufficient to reach a conclusion, so we refrained from sharing them. But now we’ve seen enough of them to preliminarily conclude that Google

Watch Community Shield Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace From Anywhere

It's the match that signifies that the new Premier League season is almost upon us, with Premier League champions Liverpool this year contesting the Community Shield against FA Cup winners Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Arne Slot's Liverpool may have lost the likes of Trent Alexander-Armstrong and Da

Cursed Knowledge

50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.

Starlink Teases ‘Community’ Discount for Shared Satellite Access. Here’s How It Works

SpaceX may soon allow multiple Starlink users to share access to a single dish for a lower monthly rate, according to a post on a customer support page. (The news was first reported by PCMag, which is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) The post, which has since been taken down, stated, “Starlink is launching a new affordable way to deliver high-speed internet: one Starlink, multiple subscribers -- each with their own Starlink account and seamless experience.” A Starlink Com