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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Reddit will let company use content for training AI under $60-million-a-year deal

    Reddit will let company use content for training AI under $60-million-a-year deal Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Reddit advised to list at $5-billion valuation

    Reddit advised to list at $5-billion valuation Reddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion (R94 billion), according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is...
  4. Jan

    Apollo, BaconReader, and Sync for Reddit shut down as API fees kick in

    Popular third-party Reddit apps shut down Several popular third-party Reddit apps — including Apollo, BaconReader, and Sync for Reddit — have shut down due to being unable to afford the platform's new API fees, Engadget reports. The biggest among them is nine-year-old Apollo — an iOS app which...
  5. Jan

    Reddit mods set subreddits as NSFW to block ads

    Reddit protest evolves — moderators turn subreddits into adult-only communities to block ads Reddit moderators protesting the platform's plan to implement high API fees for third-party apps have started switching their subreddits to not safe for work (NSFW), disabling the platform's ability to...
  6. Jan

    BlackCat demands Reddit pay $4.5 million and API fees - or they will leak 80GB of stolen data

    Reddit hackers demand R82 million and scrapping of controversial API fees A ransomware gang allegedly behind a recent Reddit hack has threatened to leak stolen internal data unless it gets paid $4.5 million (R82.03 million) — and Reddit backtracks on its controversial API fees for third-party...
  7. Jan

    Reddit admin says Code of Conduct could allow them to kick out protesting subreddit mods

    Reddit planning to kick out protesting moderators Reddit's answer to a recent subreddit protest against application programming interface (API) fees appears to be to push out the moderators committed to that protest. Approximately 8,000 subreddits went dark for at least 48 hours from Monday...
  8. Jan

    Two-hour Reddit outage caused by subreddits going dark in API fee protest

    Reddit suffers major outage — blames protesting moderators Online discussion forum platform and news aggregator Reddit suffered a major outage on Monday, 12 June 2023, affecting its desktop and mobile sites and the mobile app. The company blamed the outage on the moderator-initiated protest...
  9. Jan

    Reddit API fee plan causes user revolt

    Reddit users revolt over plan to charge API fees Reddit's plan to charge third-party apps that make heavy use of its API for their mobile apps has drawn massive backlash from the platform's users. Ars Technica reports that hundreds of subreddits protesting the move plan to go dark for 48 hours...
  10. Jan

    South African prices and features of social media subscriptions compared

    Social media apps are getting paid plans — South African prices and features compared An increasing number of social media apps are reducing their reliance on advertising as their primary source of revenue and offering paid-for memberships. These subscription plans add features to the main...
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  11. Vorastra

    Reddit Will Start Charging Big Companies for API Access

    https://gizmodo.com/reddit-will-charge-big-companies-for-ai-api-access-1850350291
  12. Jan

    Disney demands that Google and Reddit reveal Ant-Man 3 script leaker's identity

    Disney wants Google and Reddit to reveal leaker who posted Ant-Man 3 script month before release Disney has subpoenaed Reddit and Google for the details of a leaker that posted the full dialogue script for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania online about a month before the Marvel movie's release...
    • Jan
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  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    GameStop short squeeze driver behind WallStreetBets sues Reddit over ban

    GameStop short squeeze driver behind WallStreetBets sues Reddit over ban The founder of WallStreetBets, the Reddit chat forum that fueled the 2021 meme stock frenzy, sued the social media platform for ousting him from the online community. Jaime Rogozinski claims that after he applied for a...
  14. Jan

    Reddit breached, attackers make off with source code and documents

    Reddit breach — attackers steal source code and internal documents Reddit was the victim of a cyberattack on Sunday, 5 February 2023, allowing attackers to infiltrate internal systems and steal documents and source code. The hackers gained access to Reddit's systems through a targeted phishing...
  15. Jan

    Discord expands Connected Accounts feature

    Discord adding linked accounts feature to verify users Discord is expanding its Connection feature to allow users to verify their identity using accounts on other platforms like Twitter, Reddit, PayPal, Crunchyroll, Steam, and the Epic Games Store. According to its blog post, Discord will let...
    • Jan
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  16. Jan

    Some iPhone 14 Pro owners reporting major camera issue

    iPhone 14 Pro camera lens shaking uncontrollably and making grinding noises Multiple owners of the recently-launched iPhone 14 Pro have reported uncontrollable shaking of their phones' cameras and grinding noises when using third-party apps. 9to5Mac cited several online reports about the...
    • Jan
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  17. Jan

    South African fully leaks Galaxy S21 FE before official release - after buying it from a friend

    South African buys Samsung Galaxy S21 FE before official release — posts price Despite not having launched yet, a South African has managed to buy and unbox Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S21 Fan Edition for R12,999. A week ago, Reddit user UnknownWon posted a video on YouTube unboxing the brand...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Reddit planning to go public

    Reddit planning to go public Reddit Inc., the social media platform that helped fuel this year’s meme stock frenzy, said it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. The San Francisco-based company said Wednesday in a statement that the number of shares and proposed price range...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Reddit boosts GameStop stocks again

    Reddit boosts GameStop stocks again GameStop Corp. erased earlier losses to rise to the highest level since Feb. 1 as a wave of Reddit users appeared to rush back into its shares. Shares of the video-game retailer quickly accelerated starting around 2:25 p.m. in New York amid a renewed rush of...
  20. J

    Reddit and LinkedIn caught reading iPhone clipboard data

    Reddit and LinkedIn caught reading iPhone clipboard data The release of the first iOS 14 beta for Apple's iPhone range has brought with it a range of new security features. One of these is a notification for when applications attempt to read data from the user's clipboard - the memory...
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    Can sites like Reddit see your real IP address when you're behind a proxy?

    I was trying to create a reddit account but didn't want to use my real IP address for it. So when I was trying to find a working proxy I kept refreshing the site to test each one, then when I found one it told me they have been getting too much requests from my computer and I had to wait like...
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