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July 9, 2023, 5:35 PM

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Joshua Bote / SFGATE:
Evernote lays off most of its remaining staff in the US and Chile, and will relocate nearly all operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2022  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
A comparison of users' personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from 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.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …
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 …
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 …
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’
Financial Times:
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022  —  UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again  —  Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales  —  Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
More: Responsible StatecraftLinkedIn: Hal GarynMastodon: @avandeursen@fediscience.orgTwitter: @nytimes, @ali_wyne, @sushantsin, and @mparekhForums: r/Sino
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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