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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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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's Twitter competitor Threads is expected to launch on iOS on July 6, 2023 according to a pre-order listing in the App Store — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, is expected to launch on July 6.
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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 … | @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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| 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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| 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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
BlackRock has refiled its spot bitcoin ETF application with SEC through Nasdaq and listed Coinbase as market surveillance provider to address SEC's objections — BlackRock Inc. has refiled paperwork with US regulators through Nasdaq to add new details to its proposal for a exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin.
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