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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries — Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall
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Forums: r/business, r/DisneyPlus, r/Hulu, and r/cordcutters
| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” — “We will roll out tactics to drive monetization,” the Disney CEO says — Disney+ will begin cracking …
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| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 — Biden's order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links — To be clear, this isn't a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you'll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those.
More: TechCrunch. Threads: @mosseri, @timothyjchambers, @0xjessel, @anildash, @tomwarrenuk, @annamartinmedia, and @beingrealfrank
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads plans to add several features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt-text for media — Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
More: Mashable, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, Neowin, Lifewire, Reuters, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch
Threads: @zuck, @amdev, @techchatchelsea, @newyorkrebel, @heyimbrittnae, @out5p0ken, @jessicaexploring, @beingrealfrank, @emmak67, and @manu.vision
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google, American Airlines, and Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy partner to create more sustainable flight routes by avoiding those that create contrails — Google has been working with American Airlines and Bill Gates' climate investment fund, Breakthrough Energy, to chart more sustainable flight routes.
More: The Keyword, The Decoder, The i Paper, and news.aa.com
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at the UK Electoral Commission hack, disclosed nine months after discovery, which likely relied on a now-patched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw — Evidence appears to show a critical 0-day tracked as ProxyNotShell was exploited. — It's looking more and more likely …
More: TechCrunch, The Guardian, and DoublePulsar
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
More: X for Business, TweakTown, TechCabal, Engadget, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, The Register, MobileSyrup, Forbes, and Mashable
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Filing: the US SEC plans to appeal a court ruling in July that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP to retail investors on exchanges didn't violate securities law — A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law …
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| CNN: |
Filing: Twitter was fined $350K for not giving Trump's account data after special counsel Jack Smith got a warrant in January 2023; Twitter ultimately complied — The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president's Twitter account …
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Forums: r/law, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/sanepolitics, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws — Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections — Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and that moved to Polygon in 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and will return its $3M grant from Polygon — The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received.
More: Metaverse Post, crypto.news, Cryptonews, NFT Evening, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, Decrypt, The Block, and CryptoSlate
X: @y00tsnft, @y00tsnft, @frankdegods, @pokeepandaa, @beaniemaxi, @dogetoshi, and @deeze
| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store payment rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to cheaper options — - Supreme Court justice won't let appeals court ruling kick in — Epic seeking to open App Store to lower-priced alternatives
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Forums: r/fuckepic and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, as some worry over the US clamping down on their export soon — Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export
More: PCMag, Finbold, DatacenterDynamics, The Decoder, TechNode, Reuters, PingWest, iTnews, and Tech in Asia
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase's Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023 — - The Base network, backed by Coinbase, has now officially been opened to the public. — The Base network's journey began … Sponsor Posts
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