<p>The first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.</p>

<p>Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer&#8217;s end. In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. &#8220;Karma is real,&#8221; Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she&#8217;s not afraid of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network Bluesky, an alternative to X built on open source technologies, has scored a big win in terms of attracting notable users to its platform. The company on Sunday confirmed that former president Barack Obama has joined its service. Bluesky COO Rose Wang replied to a post where someone wondered if the account posting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! We&#8217;ve got tons of stories to share from this week, like the greatest hits from Nvidia GTC; the NASA astronauts finally came home; Rippling&#8217;s lawsuit; and Google bought Wiz. Let&#8217;s get to it! Google finally does it: Google made its biggest acquisition in its history this week when it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A human rights campaigner, Tanya O&#8217;Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement is contained in a settlement to an individual challenge she lodged against Meta&#8217;s tracking and profiling back in 2022. O&#8217;Carroll had argued that a legal right to object to the use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting with AI-generated characters complete with unique profiles and personalities, before scrapping them after they were deemed creepy and unnecessary. In yet another move that may not be received well among users, Meta wants to use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network Bluesky, an open source X rival, has made a change that will allow publishers to better track the referral traffic originating from posts on its platform. According to a comment from Bluesky employee Emily Liu, the company is now sending referral traffic through Bluesky&#8217;s &#8220;go&#8221; subdomain to make it easier for publishers to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is suing the Indian government, accusing the country&#8217;s IT ministry of unlawfully expanding its powers to remove online content, Reuters reported Thursday. X has long chaffed at government orders to remove or block content in the country, such as during the farmers&#8217; protests last year. Though it ended up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others, allowing posts published on one app to be seen and engaged with by those on other [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week, showing up at her keynote event in a T-shirt that subtly poked fun at Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg. Or, at least it seemed like it was subtle. But so many people appreciated the jab that users convinced Bluesky to reproduce and sell Graber&#8217;s shirt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social media site X’s valuation has bounced back to $44 billion, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Elon Musk purchased the platform, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion back in 2022. However, a report from Bloomberg states that X has raised close to $1 billion from investors in a deal that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can&#8217;t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time. It taunts you with its compact, light build that&#8217;s small enough to slip into your pocket and take anywhere, and its siren [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, no longer has to stay in France. A source told AFP that the investigating judge in charge of Durov’s case has accepted a request to modify the conditions of his supervision. “As you may have heard, I’ve returned to Dubai after spending several months in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok is introducing a new &#8220;Security Checkup&#8221; tool that allows users to quickly review and update their account&#8217;s security settings from a single screen, the company announced on Monday. The feature is similar to Security Checkup tools offered by TikTok rival Instagram and tech giant Google. Users can access the new tool from their profile [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Discord on Monday announced the launch of its Discord Social SDK, a free toolkit that allows developers to leverage the platform&#8217;s social infrastructure to enhance their games&#8217; social and multiplayer experiences. The toolkit allows developers to improve their in-game experiences, whether players have a Discord account or not. Social integrations include a unified friends list [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company titled &#8220;Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.&#8221; An arbitrator ruled that the company has made a valid argument that Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week while onstage at South by Southwest, but it attracted [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! I&#8217;m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch&#8217;s deputy managing editor, and I&#8217;ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here! This week we&#8217;re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo&#8217;s expansion into Silicon Valley; Intel&#8217;s new CEO; TikTok&#8217;s new suitor; and why DeepSeek isn&#8217;t taking VC money. Let&#8217;s get [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) yesterday published new specifications for the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol that include support for cross-platform E2EE. RCS is a long-standing effort to enable SMS-style cross-platform communications with richer features, such as group messaging, typing [&hellip;]</p>