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July 2, 2023, 5:15 PM

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping  —  Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits  —  For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky “temporarily” pauses new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic”; Bluesky's status page says “All Systems Operational”  —  / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case  —  Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The moderators of r/IAmA say they won't solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers  —  The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Major third-party Reddit apps Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader shut down on June 30, ahead of Reddit's plan to enforce its new API rate limits starting on July 1  —  After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices  —  Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
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Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
California regulators plan to decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 Waymo and Cruise driverless cabs in San Francisco; city officials fume over having no say  —  To their dismay, local officials have no control over whatever the state decides  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon …

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