Kickstarter has retracted the new set of rulesaround mature content that it released last week, following an outcry from creators whose campaigns are affected by the change. While the platform still allowed “romance and spicy literature, including comics” under that policy, it enforced stricter rules around pornographic and sexually explicit content. Now, Kickstarter has admitted that the response it got from its community let it know “loud and clear” that the crowdfunding platform got it wrong, so it’s going back to its previous rules.

It explained in its announcement that it updated its policy because of Stripe, its payment processor that operates under its own set of rules.Kickstarter explained that over the past few months, it has seen a growing number of campaigns that it had already approved get suspended by Stripe mid-funding due to their nature.

The platform would advocate for affected creators whenever that happened, and it was able to get Stripe to unfreeze their funds and to continue accepting money on their behalf so they could finish their campaigns. However, Kickstarter wasn’t always successful in getting Stripe’s decision reversed. It thought that the best path forward was to “close the gap” between its rules and Stripe’s so that creators would only have one set of rules to deal with.

“That was the intent, but the decision we made was an abandonment of the core counterculture, f*ck the establishment spirit of Kickstarter, and it left our community vulnerable,” it wrote in its post.

Under its previous rules, which have now been reinstated,pornography and illegal content are still prohibited. But the rules are less restrictive, as they’re more “bare bones and not as specific.” Kickstarter said that Stripe can still suspend campaigns due to their nature, but it promised to advocate for creators and to help them make adjustments to make their projects acceptable to Stripe. The platform called it an “imperfect temporary solution,” so it could still implement changes surrounding mature content in the future.

Kickstarter isn’t the only website affected by payment processors’ policies. Last year, Steam also started banning games that violate the rules and standards of”payment processors and related card networks and banks,” which affected titles with adult themes. Years before that, credit card companies Mastercard and Visa blocked the use of their cards on Pornhub and even severed ties with the advertising arm of the adult website’s parent company MindGeek.

LG has introduced what it claims is the world’s first FullHD (1,920 x 1,080) gaming monitor with a native 1,000Hz refresh rate. The company designed the new LG UltraGear with fast-paced first-person shooters in mind, where accurate aiming and speedy reaction times are of utmost importance. It’s most likely overkill for most people, even gamers who play just for the pleasure of it. For competitive players who value high refresh rates in monitors the most, however, the UltraGear seems to be a good model to consider.

Samsung and Acer had launched 1,000Hz models over the past months, but they’re dual-mode monitors that require players to lower their resolution in order to enjoy the highest refresh rate they’re capable of. Players can only activate their 1,000Hz refresh rate capability if they switch to 720p in resolution. In Acer’s case, its monitor switches to 500Hz if it’s at 1440p. LG says the UltraGear can achieve native 1,000Hz at FullHD resolution, which means its screen updates 1,000 times per second.

The higher the refresh rate, the less a screen lags. Monitors with high refresh rates can show moving objects to the users more clearly with less motion blurring and stuttering. Further, it reduces the delay between physical mouse movements or keyboard clicks and the action on screen. Most monitors these days top out at 240Hz, and that’s perfectly fine for most users, even gamers who play FPS titles. Since 1,000Hz monitors are rare, we can’t quite say if they deliver a noticeably better experience that would make them a must-have. Again, LG’s potential customers for this model are mostly highly competitive gamers and actual esports players.

The UltraGear has a 24.5-inchdisplay with an IPS panel and low-reflection film. It has a small base so it doesn’t take up a lot of space and allows users to adjust its tilt and height for the perfect view. It also has an integrated hook for headset storage. Like a lot of devices released these days, UltraGear comes with AI capabilities. It has on-device AI Scene Optimization that adjusts picture settings according to genre, as well as AI Sound for spatial audio. Unfortunately, LG has yet to reveal the model’s pricing and availability.

Meta is not only laying off thousands of workers onWednesday due to artificial intelligence, it’s also moving thousands to new roles within the company. According to and The New York Times, Meta HR headJanelle Gale has notified employees that 7,000 of them will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new AI tools and apps. Gale reportedly wrote in the internal memo seen by the publications that the restructuring “willmake [the company] more productive and make ⁠the ​work more rewarding.”

The new organizations will use”AI native design structures” and will not have as many layers of management per employee, Gale reportedly wrote. She told employees to work from home on Wednesday, May 20, and to wait for Meta’s email about their possible new roles, though some of the workers had already been transferred. The company will also be sending out notifications to some of the people that will be laid off that day.

If you’ll recall, Meta told employees in late April that it’s cutting 8,000 jobs and will also be closing 6,000 open jobs. Gale reportedly told them in a memo at the time that it was “part of [Meta’s] continued effort to run the company more efficiently” and will allow it to offset its other investments. While she didn’t elaborate, Gale was most likely talking about Meta’s bets on artificial intelligence. Companies across the tech industry have been actively laying off workers for a while now to put more of their money into their AI endeavors.

Meta is betting big on AI after winding down its plans for the metaverse, which didn’t quite take the world by storm as it had hoped. It’s planning to build data centers with”tens of gigawatts” within this decade. It created a “superintelligence” team of AI experts, with company chief Mark Zuckerberg even hand-picking potential recruits and inviting them to his home. It’s building AI agents and putting its AI chatbot in several of its products. The Times says Zuckerberg told investors the company is planning to spend between$115 billion to $135 billion this year, mostly on AI development.

By the end of 2025, Meta had around 78,000 employees. The layoffs affecting 8,000 workers will, thus, eliminate nearly 10 percent of the current roles within the company. says Meta will even cut more jobs later this year. Workers affected by the layoffs will get16 weeks of severance pay, with an additionaltwo extra weeks for every year they’d been with the company.