The Verge

Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ feature lets you tell the algorithm what you want to see

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you want to tweak what’s on your feed, you can make a post and ask. If you want to tweak what’s on your feed, ...
Reuters

Rejection of Texas law blacklisting 'woke' BlackRock could challenge anti-ESG laws in other states

LONDON/BOSTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - A Texas judge's move to strike down a state law blacklisting "woke" financial firms, including BlackRock (BLK.N), opens new tab and HSBC, that used environmental, ...
Phys.org

Social media feeds: Algorithm redesign could break echo chambers and reduce online polarization

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...
Polygon

Valve's job rejection letter to a high school teen is a class act

The job market can be a brutal place. You might apply to hundreds of jobs and never hear a peep from anyone. A workplace might pull an applicant through a convoluted process involving multiple ...
Engadget

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...
The Atlantic

The Upside of Professional Rejection

My relationship with rejection, professionally speaking, is complicated. I’m a writer, and although I’ve been hearing “thanks, but no thanks” in response to pitches since the ’90s, that hasn’t made ...
Cfr.org

Senate Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

The U.S. entry into World War I broke with the United States’ longstanding practice of keeping out of Europe’s political affairs. President Woodrow Wilson saw that shift as an opportunity to try to ...
Search Engine Land

Google algorithm updates 2025 in review: 3 core updates and 1 spam update

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
9to5Mac

Instagram to let select users tune the Reels algorithm in new test

Instagram is rolling out a new test that lets select users fine-tune what they’d like to see in their Reels and Explore feeds. Here’s what it looks like. Instagram lead Adam Mosseri took to Threads ...
Reuters

IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...