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Internal Slack messages show Twitter deliberately suspended access to third-party clients, leaving staff wondering when the decision would be announced publicly — The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
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| Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter's decision to ax APIs for third-party apps without notice a “shit show”, leaving customers in the lurch — Well, it happened. — We knew it was coming. — A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
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| Reuters: |
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi says regulators have lifted a ban on new user registrations, signaling an end to a longrunning regulatory crackdown — China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration, after a more than year-long ban that curbed its growth.| Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Hong Kong stock has risen around 95% since October 28 and Alibaba's stock is up about 85% over a similar period, as China relaxes its tech crackdown — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. have nearly doubled from their recent lows on growing signs that China is preparing to end …
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown — Alibaba has been paying academics to lobby Chinese authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on the metaverse and gaming applications — Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain. — Upcoming layer 2 network Shibarium … | Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, stolen from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC linked to the hackers — In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend. — 75 Total views
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Touchscreen Macs will help Apple further unify its software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of the PC market — Apple's upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base. Also: The company kicks its in-house technology plans …
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| New York Times: |
AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia's IRA — Mr. Sanders is a data scientist. Mr. Schneier is a security technologist. — Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening …
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| Hana Kiros / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more — Welcome to “Death Q&A,” a space with a unique combination of anonymity and togetherness, where avatars discuss what weighs on them most heavily.
Tweets: @nanea, @trippvr, @techreview, and @apsilverman
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: the CEO of Clearco, which offers capital to e-commerce firms for a cut of future revenue, resigns as growth at the well-funded startup grinds to a halt — The CEO of Clearco, which provides capital to e-commerce businesses in exchange for a cut of future revenue, has resigned the post … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian social media startup ShareChat lays off 400+ people, or ~20% of its staff, a month after cutting 100+ roles; ShareChat raised $1B+ from Google and others — ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce …
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