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Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023 — Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff …
More: Thurrott, The Verge, Evernote, PhoneArena, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, and Technologizer
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and Beehaw
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
A comparison of what personal data Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social collect from users, based on their listings in Apple's App Store — Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
More: The Economic Times, Techlusive, The i Paper, BetaNews, Polygon, International Business Times, Rolling Stone, The Eclectic Light Company, MarketWatch, Fortune, Gizmodo, Near Media, Techaeris, and Vox
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Mastodon: @McCullohMD@disabled.social, @austinkocher@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, and @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon …
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Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material — Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …
More: Insider, Business Today, The Information, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Insider, DocumentCloud, Livemint, SlashGear, Fox Business, and Tech Xplore
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/MediaSynthesis, r/Fauxmoi, and r/ChatGPT
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources: testing began in April 2023 with customers like the Mayo Clinic — Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams — Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …
More: The Verge, Business Today, The Economic Times, PCMag, The Decoder, and Techlusive
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| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality — NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
More: Noahpinion, Decrypt, and The Guardian
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions — A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
More: The Intrinsic Perspective and NPR
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Twitter: @natesilver538, @noahpinion, @scottnover, @jeremylittau, @pt, @aghamilton29, and @washingtonpost. Threads: @hankgreen
Forums: Hacker News, r/Foodforthought, r/Twitter, and Beehaw
| Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives — Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’
LinkedIn: Patrick Warren. Bluesky: @katestarbird.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @intelwire@mastodon.social
Twitter: @bostonjoan, @attorneynora, and @justinhendrix
| Wall Street Journal: |
The Snap Star creator program, Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse declining revenue — Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales — Snap's efforts to lure creators and their followers …
More: PYMNTS.com and The Verge
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments — Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again — Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
More: robertodoering / harpy on GitHub, Neowin, and Engadget
| Financial Times: |
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta's apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022 — UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud
More: Cryptopolitan and PYMNTS.com
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @pickardje, @marietjeschaake, @moonalice, @pauljmonaghan, @grantfeller, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @atharproject
| Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns — When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming … | Turner Novak / The Split: |
Meta's Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn't matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more — The Empire strikes back. Can Meta's new app live up to the early hype? — Hi everyone 👋 Turner back again with The Split.
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Threads: @alexheath, @hankgreen, @benjysarlin, @om, @mollyjongfast, @gruber, @mkbhd, @benjysarlin, and @alexhcranz
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Tedium, The Guardian, Reclaim The Net, Android Police, Business Today, Garbage Day, Deadline, Livemint, Techlusive, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, Reuters, Yahoo Style, The Hill, Thurrott, The Information, PCMag, Gizmodo, and CNBC
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Threads: @martinsfp, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @mosseri, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
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