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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with WSJ EIC Emma Tucker on increasing digital-only subscriptions by 30% to 4.29M since 2023, culture change, events, print, AI tools, and more

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Jio Platforms unveils a ~$12 4G phone in India with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming services, and a $1.5/month 14GB data plan

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies about selling Quests in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's past China comments may cause issues
More: Insider, PYMNTS.com, and New York Post
Bluesky: @kylemorse.bsky.social.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to.  Twitter: @jchengwsj and @newley.  Forums: Slashdot
Wall Street Journal:
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their idle rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but can be more affordable than Big Tech's cloud services
Julian Lucas / New Yorker:
A look at MoMA's free Never Alone exhibit, which features 35 video games, making MoMA one of very few art museums to build games into its permanent collection
McKenna Oxenden / New York Times:
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers
Benedict Evans:
An analysis of whether generative AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs over years like other automation waves, or if this time is different
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