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June 17, 2023, 7:20 AM

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David Ingram / NBC News:
Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow  —  Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
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.
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:
Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites  —  The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign …
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 …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Binance, Binance.US, and the SEC agree to ensure only Binance.US staff can access customer funds; the proposed agreement needs sign-off from a federal judge  —  The proposed agreement still needs judicial sign-off.  —  Binance, Binance.US and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Source: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tells investors no major ad holding firms are recommending an ad pause now and highlights a focus on video and partnerships  —  Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising …
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:
Genetic testing company 1health.io settles by paying $75K to the FTC for exposing sensitive health data, in the first FTC enforcement over genetic information  —  The case is the latest in a series of FTC enforcement actions focused on health data privacy and the first involving genetic information.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
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.
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom  —  In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 …

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