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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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's 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.| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The EU and the US agree to a new data transfer deal, which is likely to face a legal challenge given EU judges threw out two prior pacts over privacy concerns — The European Union and the US sealed a new deal on data transfers after EU judges threw out two previous pacts partly over fears … | Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling consumers' mobile device location data, which would be the first such ban in the US — Massachusetts considers law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases Code Interpreter, a ChatGPT plug-in developed in-house, 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 … | Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Foxconn pulls out of a $19.5B Indian chip and display joint venture with conglomerate Vedanta, signed in 2022, and is removing the Foxconn name from the entity — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Flexport's former CEO Ryan Petersen is joining Founders Fund as a partner; Petersen will continue to serve as Flexport's executive chairman — The 42-year-old former CEO of $8 billion-valued logistics startup Flexport will invest in early- and growth-stage startups for the firm founded by Peter Thiel.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snap rolls out integration with Linktree, allowing users to show links on Snapchat; Snap previously only allowed brands and Star creators to include links — Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut's US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut closed 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.| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
Researchers test seven popular AI text detectors and find the tools can discriminate against non-native English speakers, who tend to adopt simpler word choices — Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Sega of America workers win their union vote 91 to 26, becoming the first video game industry union at a major company that spans multiple departments — Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega win by overwhelming majority — Sega of America workers voted “yes” to officially form a union.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The UK's NHS investigates a ransomware incident, its second breach in recent weeks that could affect 1M+ patients, as the ALPHV gang claims to have stolen 70TB — NHS trust says it's ‘urgently investigating’ the alleged theft of patient data — The U.K.'s largest NHS trust …
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