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The Instagram-based Threads app launched on Wednesday night and had activated more than 30 million profiles by Thursday morning.

Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

The plan: a new “unified default install”. This, from the sounds of things, will focus on a “choose your own apps” experience.

Meta’s new social networking app and Twitter rival, Threads, will not be launched in the EU "at this point". Meta is postponing its launch of the platform, to avoid getting into trouble with regualtors.

Thousands of users reported that they had major issues using the platform last weekend, including an inability to access any tweets or to post their own tweets – so, basically, everything for which one might want to use Twitter.

A bug was seemingly introduced with update KB5023778 in March, whereby the SSD speeds in some machines are slowing down for no apparent reason.

The big subreddit protest of 2023 has Reddit right at the end of its rope. The company is reportedly handing out notices of a Thursday deadline to the biggest subs that still remain private, telling them they need to offer a reopening plan, or else they’ll do… something.

Credit Suisse has taken a significant step forward in its support of women’s football in Switzerland by partnering with the Swiss Football Association (SFA) to unveil an innovative NFT art collection.

Cyber blackmailers have stolen and published what is probably the most comprehensive data set on Swiss citizens abroad.

Ahead of the app’s launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting down to the service’s launch.

While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign.

This is helpful to replicate your follows between multiple accounts/instances - something many people seem to want to do in today's lemmy-curious environment.

Google has developed a quantum computer that instantly makes calculations that would take the best existing supercomputers 47 years, in a breakthrough meant to establish beyond doubt that the experimental machines can outperform conventional rivals.

… remember who's providing the tools.

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It is now clear that sensitive federal data has also been leaked. In addition to addresses of federal councilors, security measures for foreign diplomats and embassies have also been disclosed, according to the "NZZ am Sonntag".

The space telescope Euclid was launched successfully into space on Saturday on a long-awaited mission involving several Swiss institutions.

If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you currently need to be signed in to a Twitter account.

In regards of the current RedHat decision to put their repositories behind a paywall.

Using beacon stars called pulsars, a decades-long effort has found space-time ripples that are light years wide.

In regards of the current RedHat decision to put their repositories behind a paywall.

It can determine whether a track is a hit or flop with 97% accuracy.

XtreeE, a French company specializing in large-scale off-site 3D construction printing, has announced the deployment of three new connected 3D printing units, operated by partners in Switzerland, the United States and Japan.

Only five percent of our universe consists of matter that we know. The rest? A mystery. New data could help solve it.

Some 50 years ago, at the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) of renowned photocopier company Xerox, a revolutionary approach to local digital networks was born.

Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.