Twitter has said it's funding an effort into developing a decentralized standard for social media, project Bluesky, and it says it's aim is for twitter to be a client of this standard.
Google has confirmed it's migrating sites following best practice for its mobile-first indexing, using the the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking.
Twitter has been purging bots and spam from its system, and has now published new rules and guidance to limit the use of automated, simultaneous tweets...
Reports of a DDoS vulnerability of all versions of WordPress have surfaced. WordPress has also issued a maintenance release, V4.9.4, which will require manually updating. Note, that maintenance release doesn't yet address the vulnerability.
An in-depth investigation by the New York Times into buying followers has uncovered a large business and a an extensive list of "clients" paying to add followers to boost their profiles.
In a scathing and methodical blog post, long time Googler Steve Yegge does a through take down of Google as he leaves the company. "Google just isn't a very inspiring place to work anymore. I love being fired up by my work, but Google had gradually beaten it out of me."
"DuckDuckGo is serving up a privacy rating for each website visited. This grade is based on how many hidden trackers a site is deploying; whether it's encrypting your connection; and also considering the site's own privacy policy (for the latter activity DDG is partnering with terms of service rating initiative".