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YouTube says the secret to success is not their algorithm, it’s your audience

YouTube says the secret to success is not their algorithm, it’s your audience

Much of the talk at VidCon 2026 focused on how long-form horizontal content is at the forefront of rewiring the traditional Hollywood model. On a panel about convergence, Pocketwatch CEO Chris H. Williams declared, “If it works on YouTube, it’ll work anywhere,” pointing to The Besties’ crossover success on Hulu and, soon, Amazon Fire TV Stick. A recurring topic across panels was how streamers like Hulu, Amazon, and Tubi are recruiting creators, acquiring their YouTube libraries, or funding original content. But what does it take to make a video go viral on YouTube in 2026? That was the question Vidcon attendees had in mind as they sat down for the panel titled Decoding the Algorithm: What Your Audience Actually Wants on YouTube. Presented by YouTube, this three-person panel featured YouTube Creator Liaison and Head of Editorial Rene Ritchie, YouTuber Katarina Mogus, and YouTube Senior Director of Growth and Discovery Todd Beaupré. SEE ALSO: VidCon 2026: Live updates from the internet’s biggest weekend However, rather than offering a guideline on how to make the algorithm work …

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content, according to a recent post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Specifically, Mosseri was showing off new ways that users might access Your Algorithm, a feature that allows them to specify which topics they want to see more of, and less of. Instagram launched Your Algorithm last year and has been introducing it to more areas of the app. “We want to evolve Your Algorithm from a setting to something that feels central to your experience on Instagram,” Mosseri said. He also noted, “Some of this is testing now, some is coming soon, some might not work.” The examples in his post include one where pulling down in your Instagram feed eventually brings up the Your Algorithm menu, and another where swiping up from a Reel could bring up a similar customization prompt. A third shows buttons beneath each Reel to indicate whether or not  you want to see more Reels like it. The most popular comments on Mosseri’s post all make the same request. …

Up to 0 Off: The Smart Fridge That Haunts My Algorithm

Up to $400 Off: The Smart Fridge That Haunts My Algorithm

this colorful bar-cart-style minifridge has been all over my social media lately. I don’t know if it’s because it’s summer or because the algorithm has pegged me (correctly) as someone who would not like to walk more than 50 feet for a canned cocktail. Former WIRED contributor Andrew Watman reviewed it for us in 2024, giving it a solid 7/10 and confirming that it is every bit the statement piece it’s designed to be. Having just seen it myself for the first time yesterday, I agree. Photograph: Kat Merck I’m not sure if I can overstate how good the Rocco looks in person. The metal, color-matched tray on top and fluted glass front is meant to refract light to keep UV rays from damaging your kombucha or cava. The metal body somehow looks both retro and totally contemporary at the same time and would fit in with just about any decor. Photograph: Andrew Watman Rocco app via Andrew Watman The Rocco’s marquee feature, other than its coming in eight colors—including black, white, two blues, orange, …

How to tweak Instagram’s algorithm to show you the content you really want

How to tweak Instagram’s algorithm to show you the content you really want

Ever felt like social media sites don’t really care about your interests anymore, instead showing you random stuff you don’t even like? Instagram is taking some steps to change that. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced the change on Threads on Wednesday, with Instagram adding a new feature called Your Algorithm. “As software gets better at predicting what we want, our sense of agency gets smaller. The main feed on every major app is now mostly accounts you never decided to follow, surfaced by algorithms rather than your explicit choices,” he wrote. No s***, Sherlock. Mashable Light Speed The way to remedy that is through the Your Algorithm tool, which allows you to choose which topics you want to see in your Instagram feed. While this sounds like the same thing you go through when signing up for a new social site, Your Algorithm is a welcome change as these topics previously weren’t explicitly visible on Instagram. It also gives you the option to choose the topics you don’t want to see. When I checked my …

‘Algorithm’ comes from the name of a Uzbek mathematician : NPR

‘Algorithm’ comes from the name of a Uzbek mathematician : NPR

The first microcomputer named “Micral N” was created by the French engineer Francois Gernelle in 1973, five years before Apple and 3 years before IBM. Guillaume Souvant/AFP hide caption toggle caption Guillaume Souvant/AFP It’s a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, and creating ideological echo chambers. The word might not seem like one that would get much consideration from the Holy See. But last month in his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV addressed the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The word “algorithm” came up 19 times. Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption toggle caption Alessandra Tarantino/AP As part of NPR’s “Word of the Week” series, we’re looking at the history of the word that’s defined much of modern life — and in the process, we’ll blow the dust …

Spencer Pratt’s Mayoral Campaign Proves It Takes More Than Mastering the Algorithm to Get Elected

Spencer Pratt’s Mayoral Campaign Proves It Takes More Than Mastering the Algorithm to Get Elected

In the end, Raman’s coalition proved far more durable offline than Pratt’s did online. However, the councilmember’s journey to the runoff was tumultuous. Raman was getting hit from every direction during the primary. Pratt tried to portray Raman—a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America—as a limousine liberal and out-of-touch leftist ideologue. On the other side of the aisle, Raman’s ideological peers on the city council including Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado, and Hugo Soto-Martínez—all members of the Democratic Socialists of America— endorsed Mayor Bass. Pratt took an early lead on Raman after the first vote totals were released on election night. But, as late-arriving ballots were counted, Raman consolidated support across many of the city’s younger, renter-heavy, racially diverse, and college-educated neighborhoods—revealing the enormous gap between internet momentum and actual electoral infrastructure. What followed was hardly surprising. After months of distancing himself from the conspiratorial thinking that formerly aligned him with Alex Jones, Pratt began hinting at election integrity issues as his lead disappeared. Accusations of election fraud levied by …

Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival

Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A movie made entirely with artificial intelligence has become the first of its kind to be accepted into a film festival. Dreams of Violets — the 75-minute docudrama movie generated by AI — has been programmed to make its world premiere June 10 at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, making it the first AI-generated live-action feature-length film to make a festival’s official lineup, according to its production studio Fountain 0. The movie, inspired by real events from 47 years of Iranian civilian resistance, was made on a $2,000 budget across three months by directors and producers Ash and Pooya Koosha. The Koosha brothers, who were born in Iran and left the country in 2009, said that making a movie with no actors, sets or cameras was not what they initially had in mind. “I want to be honest about …

TurboQuant Algorithm Lowers LLM Costs Without Accuracy Loss

TurboQuant Algorithm Lowers LLM Costs Without Accuracy Loss

Google’s TurboQuant is making waves in the AI hardware sector by addressing long-standing challenges in memory usage and processing efficiency. Developed with components like the Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss Algorithm, TurboQuant achieves up to sixfold reductions in memory requirements while preserving model accuracy. This compression algorithm also accelerates processing speeds by as much as eight times, allowing faster and more cost-effective deployment of large language models (LLMs). As Wes Roth explains, these advancements are reshaping how enterprises approach AI infrastructure, with significant implications for both operational efficiency and the broader hardware market. Explore how TurboQuant’s capabilities translate into practical benefits, from reducing inference costs by 50% to optimizing GPU utilization for existing hardware. Gain insight into its potential to extend context windows and support larger models, opening doors for more sophisticated AI applications. Additionally, understand the ripple effects on the memory chip market, where declining demand for high-capacity components signals a shift in industry dynamics. This overview provides a clear breakdown of TurboQuant’s impact on AI accessibility, cost structures and future adoption trends. Key Innovations Behind TurboQuant …

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I’ll give Flipboard, the once-popular tablet news aggregator site, credit for chutzpah.  Also: A Meta-powered investment scam is spreading across 25 countries – how to spot (and avoid) it After a year in beta, its new Android app and website, Surf, go beyond simple news aggregation to incorporate content from social networking protocols like ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and good old Real Simple Syndication (RSS), enabling you to craft custom feeds blending posts and blogs from social networks such as Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.  But, wait, there’s more Surf also lets you blend in podcasts and YouTube channels, making it a one-stop shop for your web reading, listening, and viewing. As Mike McCue, Flipboard and Surf’s CEO, explained in a statement, Surf’s mission is to help “podcasters, creators, …