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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: |
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| 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 … | 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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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Buttcoin
| 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) …
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| 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 …
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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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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 and Search Engine Land
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is US regulatory clarity on offering coins “compliantly” — Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto …
More: The Block, Benzinga, Decrypt, ZyCrypto, Watcher Guru, Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, Blockworks, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoGlobe, and Cryptopolitan. Tweets: @leomschwartz
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a cease and desist, Texas' securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent since at least March 31, 2023, and accuses the company of fraud — State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars' worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms.
More: Texas State Securities Board, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Micky, Protos, Unchained Crypto, crypto.news, and Bitcoinist.com
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| Benedict Evans: |
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability — The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years. We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair of glasses …
LinkedIn: Benedict Evans and Gurdeep Pall. Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social
Tweets: @bernardleong, @gassee, @twizzles7, @patrickmcgee_, @gerstenzang, and @borrowed_ideas. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 — - Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk.
More: Insider, Reuters, and Politico
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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 — The coding hub's 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men. This time around it simply dropped the question.Sponsor Posts
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