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| Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: |
With Twitter traffic “tanking” and Threads ascendant, Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg “is a cuck” and proposes “a literal dick-measuring contest” — Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk's network
More: The Independent, Vox, The Guardian, The Verge, Reuters, CNBC, UPROXX, The Verge, WTRF, Fox News, Daily Mail, New York Post, and Newser
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours — Instagram's text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days. The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 (or June 5 in the Americas), according to a tracker.
More: The Verge, The Independent, Insider, Mobile Dev Memo, Metaverse Post, BBC, Fast Company, Entrackr, Coinspeaker, Tech.co, iPhone in Canada Blog, KitGuru, MySmartPrice, Mashable, PetaPixel, BigTechWire, MSPoweruser, Social Media Today, The Apple Post, Agence France-Presse, Wccftech, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, and TweakTown
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| 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: Lifewire, MakeUseOf, Techlusive, The i Paper, BetaNews, International Business Times, and Rolling Stone
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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
| Joshua Bote / SFGATE: |
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: The Verge, Evernote, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Neowin, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, Technologizer, TechRadar, and Engadget
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/Evernote, and Beehaw
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases in-house ChatGPT plug-in Code Interpreter to all Plus subscribers, helping them analyze data, create charts, edit files, and more — OpenAI first announced third-party software application plug-ins for its hit service ChatGPT back in March, allowing users to extend …
More: OpenAI Help Center, One Useful Thing, Metaverse Post, chatgptguide.ai, Insider, BigTechWire, Analytics Insight, SM Raiyyan, TestingCatalog, and Fortune
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| 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: The Guardian, NBC News, The Register, Decrypt, Forbes, Cointelegraph, gHacks Technology News, DocumentCloud, Fortune, Tech.co, The Decoder, Silicon Republic, Music Ally, Insider, Livemint, Cryptopolitan, Business Today, The Information, SlashGear, and Fox Business
Forums: Hacker News, r/books, r/Fauxmoi, r/technology, and r/MediaSynthesis
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources say testing began in April 2023 with the Mayo Clinic and others — Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams — Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …
More: The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, Analytics Insight, Business Today, PCMag, The Economic Times, The Decoder, and Techlusive
Twitter: @glenngabe, @alanlau999, and @erictopol
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/CLOV
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The EU and the US agree to a new deal on data transfers after EU judges threw out two previous pacts over privacy concerns; Meta had threatened to leave the EU — The European Union and the US sealed a new deal on data transfers after EU judges threw out two previous pacts partly over fears …
More: New York Times, Politico, Financial Times, European Commission, and noyb.eu. Twitter: @maxschrems
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Foxconn pulls out of a $19.5B Indian chip and display joint venture, announced in 2022, with conglomerate Vedanta and is “working to remove the Foxconn name” — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd …
More: Reuters, Livemint, Reuters, AppleInsider, Business Today, CNBC, Display Daily, Reuters, and Financial Times. Twitter: @adityakalra
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut's US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut shut the loophole, equivalent to ~66% of its 2021 net profit — During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages.
More: HackRead, TechRadar, Business Post, PYMNTS.com, The Hacker News, and Bloomberg
Twitter: @ciaranmartinoxf, @danneidle, @yoda, and @arturo_p_a
| Wall Street Journal: |
Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, the Snap Star creator program, shows early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse its declining revenue — Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales — Snap's efforts to lure creators and their followers …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Forbes
| Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups and academics say the recent US ruling limiting government tech company contacts 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’
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Twitter: @bostonjoan, @attorneynora, and @justinhendrix
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