TikTok is rolling out new comment features including voice comments up to one minute long, creator-run polls, photo carousel comments, and Live Photo comments. Voice comments will roll out globally over the next month to users 18 and older, while polls—previously limited to some creators—are now available worldwide.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-03
An opinion piece suggests communities resisting new data center construction could be won over by receiving actual financial stakes in the projects, modeled after the Consumer Stock Ownership Plan structure. Instead of only offering tax breaks or jobs, developers would share ownership benefits directly with residents near the facilities.
wsj.com
· 2026-08-26
A developer created a workaround that adds rollback functionality to Flyway's free Community Edition, which normally reserves database migration undo capability for paying Teams subscribers. The trick treats every rollback as a forward migration: instead of reversing an applied migration, the tool writes a new, higher-numbered migration containing the reverse SQL, then cleans up Flyway's schema history table so the recorded state matches the database and files on disk. The implementation relies entirely on standard Flyway commands rather than direct SQL execution against the database.
aconcan.io
· 2026-08-25
Spotify suffered an outage that stopped many users from playing or downloading audiobooks across phones, desktops, and the web, with symptoms ranging from stalled loading to chapters skipping without playing. Spotify acknowledged the problem on its Community forum and has since marked the incident as fixed, though some users still report ongoing playback issues.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-25
Business Insider reports that Hugging Face has fielded acquisition interest valuing the AI model-sharing platform at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its $4.5 billion valuation from a 2023 Salesforce Ventures-led round. No buyer has been named and no deal is finalized, but the startup is reportedly consulting banks to weigh potential bids.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-24