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Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms — When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same. — It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years — The protest appears to have had a small but noticeable effect on the platform. — When more than 8,000 subreddits went dark … | Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: |
Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, with Coinbase and CashApp integrations — Bitkey will allow beta users to withdraw Bitcoin from Coinbase and Cashapp using “copy and paste.” — Jack Dorsey's payments company Block announced an open beta program …
More: Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, The Daily Hodl, The Block, and ZyCrypto
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| 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 addresses the SEC's motion for a temporary restraining order. — A federal judge signed off …
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| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
Report: a group of central banks developed 33 API functionalities to test 30+ CBDC online, offline, and in-store use cases, via QR codes, phones, and more — An API layer could facilitate a wide range of central bank digital currency payment scenarios, a Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England experiment has shown.
More: Quant, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, blockchainreporter, Watcher Guru, and Finextra. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| 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.
More: Federal Trade Commission, The Record, LAW.com, Washington Post, GovInfoSecurity.com, and Forbes
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI — The CEO considers artificial intelligence critical to long-term growth and is taking more control over efforts.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms, particularly with AI — Defining risky artificial intelligence poses challenge as Washington moves to curb investment in Chinese tech
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @davidmwessel, and @bobdavis187
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google makes third-party “smart chips” in Docs available to all Workspace and personal Google accounts, letting users pull and view data from third-party apps — You can now embed third-party app “smart chips” into your Google Doc after the company announced yesterday that the feature …
More: Google Workspace Updates
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, The Week, Livemint, Fortune, Bloomberg, Digiday, MakeUseOf, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, and TechCrunch
| June Yoon / Financial Times: |
Chipmakers like TSMC and Samsung race to curb emissions as chip manufacturing makes up most of a device's carbon output, a tough job in fossil fuel-reliant Asia — Meanwhile sister companies with green energy knowhow look set to cash in — A greener future is not necessarily a lower-tech future.| 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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