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Android’s Circle to Search is déjà vu all over again
Over the past several days, I’ve been exploring what might just be one of the most meaningful Android advancements in recent memory.
It’s a shiny new feature that’s poised to change the very way we interact with our devices. It’s also one of those things you really have to experience to fully grasp — because it’s essentially taking an existing function and reframing how we use it. But subtle of a shift as that may be, it is incredibly significant in terms of real-world value.
The feature, while technically brand new and in the midst of rolling out to a very small subset of Android devices right now, is also quite familiar. In fact, if you’ve been paying attention to Android for long, you’ll almost certainly make the connection between it and an eerily similar system from nearly a decade ago.
Tears of the Kingdom midnight launch had kids form a circle pit at a death metal gig
What better way is there to celebrate the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom than by listening to a metal gig and watching kids make a circle pit?
Midnight launches are quite the ordeal for some, as they can be a fun way to connect with your local community – you might even have your copy sold to you by Bowser himself. But where some midnight launches will keep things simple by quite literally just selling people the game, others will go the extra mile, like at one GameStop in Texas, Houston, which literally featured a death metal gig and a bunch of kids forming a circle pit.
As reported by Consequencehttps://consequence.net/2023/05/kids-circle-pit-gamestop/ (thanks, NME), the band featured at the midnight launch is called Severance, with the group’s lead singer Chris De Leon saying that he is a “huge gamer,” and is friends with this GameStop’s manager. The manager invited the band to play at the midnight launch, and play they did. “[Before] the very last song [we played that night] … I saw these little kids just really getting into it in front of us, and one of them started doing a circle pit motion,” De Leon said. “So, on the spot, I taught them, ‘Hey, do that, but altogether … we call that a circle pit.’ … The song kicks in, and these kids are going hard.”
Twitter says a ‘security incident’ led to private Circle tweets becoming public
Back in April, users found a bug with Twitter’s Circle feature that saw the platform expose private tweets to strangers. Now, nearly a month later, the company has finally commented on the issue. In an email seen by The Guardian, Twitter told affected users the exposure was the result of “a security incident that occured earlier this year.”
The company claims the issue was “immediately fixed.” It also shared an apology. “Twitter is committed to protecting the privacy of the people who use our service, and we understand the risks that an incident like this can introduce and we deeply regret this happened,” the company said. When news of the exposure first started circulating online, some, including creator Theo Brown, speculated the issue was the result of Twitter failing to filter Circle tweets out of its recommendation algorithm. Twitter has not operated a communications department since Elon Musk’s first round of layoffs, and the company did not initially acknowledge the issue.
More broadly, Twitter has dealt with a growing number of technical issues since Musk’s takeover of the company in October. The billionaire has reduced the company’s workforce by at least 60 percent, gutting many of its technical teams of senior leadership. Over that time, Twitter has suffered multiple outages and otherwise created confusion over feature rollouts and removals.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-says-a-security-incident-led-to-private-circle-tweets-becoming-public-164954799.html?src=rss
Twitter confirms Circle tweets temporarily were not private
Twitter confirmed that a security error that made Circle tweets — posts that only go out to a small subset of trusted friends — surface publicly. TechCrunch reported the glitch in early April, but the platform confirmed the issue today in an email sent to Twitter Circle users. “In April 2023, a security incident may […]
Twitter confirms Circle tweets temporarily were not private by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
‘Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ trailer takes us behind rock’s most iconic album covers
You might not know the name Hipgnosis, but you’ve definitely seen this creative duo’s work. You might even have copies of it in your house right now.
Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, aka Hipgnosis (the G is silent, like lasagna), founded the design firm in the late ’60s. And along with later members (including Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle), they created album covers for some of the biggest names of the 1970s. The most famous is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon — triangle, rainbow, you know the one — but there are dozens and dozens more.
Anton Corbijn — the Dutch photographer and filmmaker, himself no stranger to creating visuals for iconic music — has clearly called in some serious favors to tell the story of Hipgnosis in his new documentary Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis). The lineup of talking heads alone would be a Glastonbury for the ages: Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Noel Gallagher, and more.
Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) opens in New York in June 7, in Los Angeles June 16, with a nationwide expansion on June 20.
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Daily Crunch: Don’t post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle
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Daily Crunch: Don’t post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch