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Jay Peters / The Verge:

Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more — Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …

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Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:

Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12 — Reddit Inc. said that most of the company's communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut …

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The Verge:

Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening” — Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else.

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit's rules may let the platform replace protesting moderators

More: AppleInsider, Reddit Upvoted, IGN, Gizmodo, gHacks Technology News, and WRAL TechWire

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Forums: r/apple and r/technology

Sean Lyngaas / CNN:

Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver's license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs — Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit …

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Bloomberg:

NY AG's documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies' securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper — Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …

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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:

Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won't release an app citing misuse risks — But the company won't be sharing the app or its source code for the time being. — Today, we are one step closer …

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Manya Saini / Reuters:

BlackRock files a US SEC application to register a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian; the SEC has rejected all bitcoin spot ETFs to date — BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) …

CoinDesk:

France probes Binance over alleged illegal digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance exits the Netherlands after failing to get a license — Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks …

Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice:

Alleged official renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 show the clamshell-style foldable could have a 3.4" outer display, up from its predecessors' 1.9" screen — The newly revealed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 design render shows that the clamshell-style foldable phone is certainly getting a significant upgrade.

Alex Heath / The Verge:

Meta plans to lower the minimum age for Quest headsets from 13 to 10, with under-13s' profiles and avatars set to private by default; Horizon Worlds remains 13+ — Government scrutiny of how tech companies handle their underage users is continuing to heat up.

More: New York Times, PCMag, UploadVR, and Meta

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Mia Sato / The Verge:

How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other — The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

More: Google Help Center, Search Engine Land, and Pixel Envy

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Financial Times:

Filing: Tiger Global raised just $2B+ for a fund targeting $6B after eight months; US venture firms raised nearly $12B in Q1, down 73% YoY

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Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired:

Stack Overflow removed gender and race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men

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Washington Post:

Meta drops its global approach for its COVID-19 misinformation rules, ending them in countries like the US where the pandemic is no longer a national emergency

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Dana Priest / Washington Post:

Hanan Elatr, Jamal Khashoggi's widow, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus phone spyware to track them both

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Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:

The UK CMA clears Amazon's $1.7B iRobot deal announced in August 2022, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation by or against Tesla and Twitter

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Wojciech Moskwa / Bloomberg:

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Intel announces Tunnel Falls, its first quantum chip, featuring 12 qubits that use electrons to store data, available to select academic and research partners

Teo Armus / Washington Post:

Amazon formally opens Metropolitan Park in Arlington, Virginia, marking the first phase of HQ2, where the company plans to bring 25K highly paid workers by 2030

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

The US DOJ charges a Russian national in Arizona for allegedly deploying LockBit ransomware, the third LockBit affiliate the US has charged since November 2022

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Jay Peters / The Verge:

Twitch launches a Partner Plus tier, offering a 70/30 revenue sharing split to creators who have 350+ recurring paid subscriptions for three consecutive months

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