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Reddit is back online after a major outage forced everyone to touch grass
Reddit is currently down. The company is working on a fix.
Reddit is now a publicly traded company
Reddit is now a publicly traded company, 19 years after it first went live. It aimed to raise around $631 million in its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Reddit’s AI licensing deals, the company disclosed in paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Reddit files for IPO and will let some longtime users buy shares
Reddit has officially filed paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange. It will trade under RDDT.
Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models
Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content.
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company
Reddit signed a deal with an AI company that's "worth about $60 million on an annualized basis" earlier this year, according to Bloomberg. The unnamed company will use Reddit posts and comments to train its AI models.
YouTube TV gets a 1080p Enhanced option that offers better video quality
The company calls it the "highest video quality" it offers.
Tech’s biggest losers in 2023
The Engadget team's pick of the worst things that happened in tech in 2023.
Reddit client Narwhal tries $4 monthly pricing to navigate API changes
The developer of third-party Reddit client Narwhal announced a new $4 monthly subscription to survive Reddit’s controversial API changes.
Reddit is revamping search and improving support for screen readers
Reddit is revamping search and making a key feature of its app more accessible.
Redditors will now be forced to see personalized ads
Reddit’s Head of Privacy, Jutta Williams, shared in a post on Wednesday that the platform is removing the ability for users to opt out of personalized ads based on their upvotes and other activity.
Reddit turns top contributors' Reddit Gold into real-world money
Reddit rolled out a new program today that allows the platform’s biggest contributors to earn real-world money for their virtual rewards.
Spotify's priciest lossless audio plan could sort playlists by "danceability"
The long-awaited option is likely to cost $20 per month.
The Google Nest Hub Max is losing some of its Zoom and Meet conferencing functionality
Say goodbye to cooking while on Google Meet or Zoom.
Reddit is testing verification labels for brands
Reddit is testing its own version of a verification badge. It has started rolling out an "Official" badge for a small number of brands.
Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes
As it promised, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform's API. The admin account u/ModCodeofConduct has taken sole charge of r/malefashionadvice, a community with more than 5.4 million subscribers.
Redditors troll an AI content farm into covering a fake 'WoW' feature
Redditors tricked a website that apparently uses AI to generate blog posts into covering a fake World of Warcraft feature.
VanMoof e-bikes has declared bankruptcy
The company is putting all of its Dutch entities up for sale.
Reddit is removing years of chats and messages
Reddit has removed years of chat and message logs, but there may be a way to recover some of that data.
Apollo and other popular third-party Reddit apps have shut down
Several popular third-party Reddit apps are no longer operational, while a few have chosen to charge users for access, now that the website's new API rules are in effect.