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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Twitter offering no timeline for its “temporary” reading limits, with CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, could create a perfect opening for Meta to launch Threads — It was a trying weekend for those who still believe Elon Musk has what it takes to turn Twitter into a success story.
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| Insider: |
Instagram's Twitter-like “text-based conversation app” Threads is showing up in the Google Play store in some European countries — - Instagram appears to be getting ready to launch its Twitter-rival app called “Threads.” — The app has been in development since Jan …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter employees say that removing support for legacy APIs is what broke TweetDeck, and the company will be moving users to the “new” version of TweetDeck — Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter's support account …
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| @twittersupport: |
Twitter says in 30 days users must be Verified to access TweetDeck, as it updates TweetDeck with support for full composer functionality, Spaces, and more — We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Some notes on getting started and the future of the product... https://twitter.com/...
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| New York Times: |
A look at the cottage industry of tech contractors in Russia, many employed by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for the FSB — Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to fewer than 400K units in 2024 due to many manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's privacy watchdog says “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” and issues $1M+ in fines to businesses, including telco Tele2, that used the service — Sweden's data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users' data via Google Analytics … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Apple says it will ask SCOTUS to revisit an Epic case ruling that Apple cannot keep devs from offering links in apps to payment options outside the App Store — Apple (AAPL.O) said on Monday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to a judge's order in an antitrust case brought by …
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| Bloomberg: |
China imposes export restrictions on gallium and germanium, used to make chips and other electronics, starting on August 1, likely raising manufacturers' costs — China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before it went dark in Louisiana traffic fell ~80% there due to such a law — Pornhub is now blocking people in Mississippi and Virginia from visiting its website over laws that would require the service to verify their age.
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| New York Times: |
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
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