One knock on Instagram…and I have run into this myself…is the inability do to a ‘photo dump’ after you return from a vacation trip or an event. Well, now IG is rectifying that, as they roll out the ability to add up to 20 photos or videos to their feed carousels. Techcrunch.com notes that in 2017, we got to upload 10 photos or videos in a swappable carousel post. It’s a nice increase, but worth mentioning that you can upload up to 35 in a single post on TikTok. Still…if you have had to split uploads of 45 or 50 pics you took on your trip to the Magic Kingdom or Europe, this is a real plus. 

Apple has a new Mac Mini in the works, and it will not only run on M4 and M4 Pro chips, it will be much smaller…about the size of an Apple TV, but a little taller. Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reports that it will still be in an aluminum case. Some insider word is that it is “essentially an iPad Pro in a small box.” If things remain in the production models, it should sport 3 USB-C ports, plus an HDMI port and of course a jack for the power cable. It should be released later this year…the higher end model probably by October. 

Meta and Google got together and ran a secret campaign to target 13-17 year olds with Instagram ads on YouTube. Theverge.com says Google directed ads to a subset of users labeled as “unknown” in its advertising systems, in an attempt to disguise the group skewed toward teenagers. According to a Google Ads help page, the “unknown” demographic category refers to people whose age, gender, parental status, or household income are supposedly unidentified, and can allow advertisers to reach “a significantly wider audience” when selected.  Google used app downloads and online activity to determine “with a high degree of confidence” that the “unknown” group was populated by younger users. Meta and Google intended to expand the campaign to international markets and promote additional services like Facebook. Google has launched their own investigation of this, but hopefully the EU and Department of Justice are doing so…otherwise, it’s just monkeys guarding the banana boat.

When a guy sues advertisers for not wanting to advertise on his platform that has grown more controversial, you would think he would be on his best behavior personally on the platform…never mind policing other folks’ content. But we are talking about Elon Musk here. Mashable.com reports that Musk posted a photoshopped fake news headline from a far right user on his X platform. ‘Detainment camps…’ was posted with a fake image that was mocked up to look like a headline from The Daily Telegraph website. It claimed that the new Prime Minister of the UK “Keir Starmer considering building ’emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands.” X user Ashlea Simon was the user he got the fake news from…Simon  is one of the leaders of the far-right UK party known as Britain First. The fake headline was referencing the far-right’s anti-immigration riots that have been unfolding throughout the UK and appeared to claim that the UK Prime Minister and Labor Party leader was building “detainment camps” to hold the arrested rioters.

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Techinfied’ for now.