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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 …
More: Thurrott and Engadget
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Forums: Hacker News and Beehaw
| 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.
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Mastodon: @McCullohMD@disabled.social, @austinkocher@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, and @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon …
Twitter: @crickettgrrrl, @ackocher, @follylollysews, @stellabelle, and @madoldmoai
Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: The Verge, PCMag, The Economic Times, The Decoder, and Techlusive
Twitter: @glenngabe, @erictopol, and @alanlau999
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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: The Guardian. Bluesky: @serrurier.bsky.social. Mastodon: @joeyh@octodon.social and @jpholbrook@mastodon.online
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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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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: @attorneynora and @justinhendrix
| 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
More: PYMNTS.com and Cryptopolitan
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @pickardje, @marietjeschaake, @moonalice, @pauljmonaghan, @grantfeller, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @atharproject
| 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 …
More: robertodoering / harpy on GitHub, Neowin, and Engadget
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. Twitter: @mpoppel, @cocolitron, and @tomwarren. Forums: Beehaw
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan has set up an office in Singapore and might compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV for south-east Asia investments — Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV| 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 Statecraft. LinkedIn: Hal Garyn. Mastodon: @avandeursen@fediscience.org. Twitter: @nytimes, @ali_wyne, @sushantsin, and @mparekh. Forums: r/Sino
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
The Snap Star creator program, Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of broader efforts to reverse declining sales — 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
| 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.
More: Insider, Forbes, Slate, Crain's New York Business, Rob Pegoraro, Ad Age, and Observer
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Threads: @martinsfp, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @mosseri, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
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