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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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| 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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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Elon Musk claims the Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred organizations” were scraping data “extremely aggressively” — Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.
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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.
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| 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) …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/technology, r/RedditAlternatives, and Ars OpenForum
| 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
More: Cryptopolitan and Analytics Insight
| Bernhard Warner / New York Times: |
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue — For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.| New York Times: |
Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031 — The light displays are quieter, safer and better for the environment. — Like many in the fireworks industry, Stephen Vitale is in the family business.| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Red Hat's new source code policy doesn't violate the GPL itself but makes it harder to verify the company's GPL compliance, angering the open-source community — A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks' worth of heated GPL argument. — When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting … | 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 …
More: ABC7 and Financial Times
Bluesky: @zachlipton.com. Twitter: @mattbroad15, @byerussell, @teamsters, @richontech, @suzannephan, @terryanzur, and @trishathadani. Forums: Hacker News
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks — A new generation of chatbots doesn't have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.
Twitter: @natolambert and @nytimes
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