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Posts made on Reddit will be used for training OpenAI's ChatGPT under an agreement struck between the two companies.

GUEST RESEARCH: It may be too early to say whether Twitter's recent rebranding as "X" will hurt the company's traction with its audience or advertisers – but it's not helping. The rebranding of Twitter to "X" is incomplete, with twitter.com remaining the primary web domain and the mobile app unchanged, so forgive us if we refer to this social media property as Twitter for the rest of this report.

Search giant Google is testing out technology to prevent YouTube users who use ad blocking software from viewing videos after a certain number of visits.

Singtel Optus has raised prices for its post-paid mobile plans, with emails going out to users on Wednesday. The increases are unclear but are as much as $19 per month in some cases.

GUEST RESEARCH: The value of Reddit comes from community-generated content, and that is a problem now that the company has alienated important community leaders, the moderators of its forums.

A ransomware gang which attacked the well-known social news aggregation site Reddit has expanded its demands, asking the company to reverse announced hikes in the prices for using its API.

The reason why Google launches so many products and then abandons them is because only those who launch new products are in a position to chase promotions, an unnamed ex-employee and a current employee claim.

Reddit has now enjoyed an official presence in Australia for one year today, making it "Cake Day", with Reddit's fourth-largest user base globally to see a special new consumer brand campaign launching dubbed "Find your people", which we're told "draws its inspiration from Reddit’s 100,000+ communities as spaces for everyone to find shared belonging and understanding."

If there's one thing we know about the Internet, it's that there can be a lot of conflict, snarkiness and smart-a behaviour from all sides, whether it is gaming, politics, or just discussion about well, anything really. So new stats from Reddit about gamers seeking a "low sodium" diet are making me thirsty to learn more.

The first advanced desktop environment for Linux users, KDE, has completed 25 years in existence, a testimony to the fact that free software is very much alive and kicking.

Reddit's first new feature for two years is Predictions – a competitive environment for tipping the outcome of an event or conversation.

Social news website and forum Reddit has appointed former Google Cloud executive Pali Bhat as its first ever chief product officer.

Australian scale-up secure coding company Secure Code Warrior has made several senior appointments.

Stating it is upvoting the land down under, Reddit is continuing its international expansion with dedicated, locally-based community, engineering and sales staff, as well as a country manager with Australia Reddit's fourth largest user base growing 40% YoY.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced the launch of Nextcloud Hub 20, which adds new features and also integrates third-party social media, productivity and collaboration platforms like Twitter, GitHub and Discourse.

Nearly 83% of the population of Australia above the age of 14 — 17.1 million people — uses the social media site Facebook during an average four weeks, the research agency Roy Morgan says, adding that this figure has grown by 4.2 million, or 32.4%, from 2015.

Google has been caught out hiding privacy settings in its Google Pay app that can restrict what information the company collects about users. Three settings are all selected and only accessible via a special URL and not through the settings link of the app.

American social news aggregation, Web content rating, and discussion website Reddit has says someone broke into its systems and accessed user data including email addresses, plus a 2007 database back-up containing encrypted passwords.

Google will delete back-ups of Android devices, after warning users who have not used their devices for two weeks and without telling them how long it will take before the back-ups are removed.

A security researcher who claims to have managed to bypass two-factor authentication on the website of the US-based digital asset exchange Poloniex says he sold the vulnerability information after waiting for more than 60 days for the company to react after being informed.