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Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs in 2022 were “automated or from bots” — Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Meta plans to debut its Twitter rival, potentially named Threads, in mid-July and is pitching celebrities and creators to join a “sanely” run platform — Mark Zuckerberg is the overwhelming favorite to beat Elon Musk in a cage match. Will it actually happen?
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is using Instagram to promote an edgier image to court the “tech bros” captivated by Elon Musk's online antagonism and offline antics — Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to appear more relevant among the tech elite
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| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Startups are using remote work to attract talent; report: 81% of companies with fewer than 5K employees offer remote work vs. 26% for those with 25K+ employees — How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys. — It used to be that Big Tech companies like Google …
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
NetBlocks: at least five Russian telcos block Google News and other ISPs reduce access to the service, as Russia's feud with a mercenary leader intensifies — At least five telecommunications companies have blocked the service, which aggregates news from various sources …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to invest $15B more in India by 2030, likely most for AWS expansion; in May 2023, AWS announced a $12.7B investment in the country — Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google invited employees to test Playables, a YouTube product that lets users play games like Stack Bounce instantly on the YouTube site or app — The new service, called ‘Playables,’ is part of CEO's push into new areas amid advertising slowdown
More: Eurogamer.net, Neowin, and Reuters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5B to stop Sony from paying for Bethesda games like Starfield to be PlayStation exclusives — Microsoft's Xbox chief has revealed one of the key reasons behind the acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax: potential Starfield PlayStation exclusivity.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire cloud-based IT management startup Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for ~$5B; Vista acquired Apptio for ~$2B in 2019 — Purchase of Apptio, owned by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners, could be finalized over the weekend| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to five years in prison for helping hack into dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts in July 2020 — Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years — Three years after one of the most visible hacks …
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| Wired: |
How companies are repurposing military-grade AI, built by US defense contractors for intelligence, to identify labor organizing, internal leakers, and critics — Spycraft developed by defense contractors are now being sold to employers to identify labor organizing. Regulators must step up to protect workers' privacy.| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says he and Mark Zuckerberg are “aligned” on the EU's regulation of AI; Sam Altman says he also agrees with the EU's approach — Technology company executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman expressed support for government oversight of artificial intelligence …
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