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Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web UI, offering an early look at what to expect before its July 6 launch; the service appears to have 2,500+ users — Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.| Adrian Weckler / Independent.ie: |
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Sources: Australia searched several Binance Australia locations as part of its derivatives investigation; CZ acknowledged that “external pressure” hurts Binance — Binance's offices in Australia were searched by the country's financial markets regulator as governments around … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Jassy asked Amazon's Hollywood studio for detailed budgets to scrutinize ballooning costs; Amazon spent $7B on originals and other shows in 2022 — I am off this week; that means no newsletter Sunday. — (Tips are still welcome at lshaw31@bloomberg.net or on Signal.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Fairphone and Murena partner to launch the user-repairable, modular Fairphone 4 in the US for $599+, unlocked and running the Google-free /e/ OS, not Android — The storage of both models can be expanded via microSD, and the phone features a modular design that can be easily disassembled using … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk's “temporary emergency measure”; profiles remain blocked — The platform is becoming slightly more usable just as Meta opens up its Twitter competitor.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest and busiest port, plans to resume operations by July 6 after a July 4 ransomware attack; no group has claimed responsibility — The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. says that music containing AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered — Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
AI-based full-body scanner startup Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Watty founder Hjalmar Nilsonne, raised a €60M Series A led by Lakestar — Neko Health, the medical diagnostics company co-founded by Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek … | Will Bedingfield / Wired: |
A look at AI Dungeon and other games that let players use generative AI to create in-game content, raising questions about authorship, ownership, and copyright — Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
CADDi, which offers a B2B marketplace for the manufacturing industry and an AI-powered cloud service for managing drawing data, raised a $89M Series C — The pandemic has damaged the entire manufacturing supply chain, which is not likely to return to normal until at least 2024 due to a few challenges … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter claims “any advance notice” on rate limiting would have helped bad actors evade detection and that rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising — The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
After Fortinet patched a major FortiOS bug on June 12, researchers find that ~336K out of ~490K affected SSL VPN interfaces are still unpatched and open to RCE — Cybersecurity experts are raising the alarm about a new vulnerability that leaves hundreds of thousands of Fortinet customers vulnerable to attack.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based EGYM, which sells smart fitness hardware and software to measure how people work out, raised $225M led by Affinity Partners — The technology industry at large might not be in the best of health at the moment, but health and fitness startups appear to be alive and well.
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