🛒Shopping free? Apple today released its annual list of top apps and games, based on downloads, and Chinese shopping app Temu was the most downloaded app for the second year in a row. How many people are actually buying things on it, though? It once served me an ad on X for an excavator. I didn't buy it. Read more
🩺 Back to WebMD, I guess: ConnectOnCall, a digital answering service for healthcare providers that answers calls after hours, is alerting customers about a security breach back in May that compromised patients' medical and personal data. Read more
🤓 Smart specs: Meta released a whole host of new updates to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. The updates include the ability to have a continual conversation with AI, and users can also ask the AI questions about what they are seeing in real life. Read more
🕹️ Control for content creators: YouTube is giving its creators more control over whether AI is allowed to train off their content. Creators who have access to the YouTube Studio Content Manager can pick and choose which AI companies have authorization. Read more
🤑 More money for creators: Snapchat is announcing a new monetization strategy for its creators, which will reward them for the content they post to both Stories and Spotlight. This combines what used to be separate programs. Read more
