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Chris Cox showed Meta's employees its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app that integrates with ActivityPub; docs: the app could be called Threads — One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
At an all-hands, Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want” — / Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue — Popular third-party Reddit app Apollo will be shutting down as of June 30, Apollo developer Christian Selig announced today.
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| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet” — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who watched Elon Musk's advances on the company in 2022 with great interest …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can't miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom — Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can't afford to miss out on the funding …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple Vision Pro impressions after 30 minutes: extraordinary tech, heavier than expected, visionOS navigation is a breakthrough, incredible for sports, and more — I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Blackpoint Cyber, which offers managed cybersecurity detection and response services, raised a $190M Series C led by Bain Capital with participation from Accel — Blackpoint Cyber, a startup that provides managed cybersecurity services using an internally developed software platform, has raised $190 million in fresh funding.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data — - One example is social media, where users were so eager to connect with one another on new platforms that they paid little scrutiny … | Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google plans to consider office attendance records in performance reviews and only take new requests to work remotely full time as exceptions — Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance
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| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Google plans to launch News Showcase, first announced in October 2020, in the US later this summer, alongside partnerships with five local news associations — Partner publications include the Wall Street Journal, AP, Reuters and Bloomberg. — Google will launch the US edition …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Court filings: Binance's lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to serve as an advisor to the company in March 2019, when he was teaching at MIT Sloan — - According to a new filing from Binance's lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in 2019.| Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
EvenUp, which uses AI to generate legal documents for personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation — Millions of personal injury cases are settled in the U.S. every year, as few go to trial — but the vast majority are kept under wraps.| Rahat Sandhu / Reuters: |
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13 — Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Hong Kong-based Taiko Labs, which is focused on scaling Ethereum, raised a $10M seed led by Sequoia China and a $12M pre-Series A led by Generative Ventures — - Taiko Labs raised two rounds led by Sequoia China and Generative Ventures, respectively. — The startup is building a Type 1 zkEVM … | Bloomberg: |
A group of about 120 Google contract workers from Accenture is seeking to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying Alphabet is a “joint employer” — A group of Alphabet Inc. contract workers are launching a unionization campaign, saying they need a greater voice …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Granica, which helps data-centric AI companies optimize their cloud object storage in Amazon S3 and Google Cloud, raised $45M from NEA, Bain, and others — Data management is under the spotlight again as companies seek to out-innovate competitors with large language models
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| Vulture: |
Hollywood insiders discuss the end of Peak TV, an era started by Netflix dropping House of Cards' first season in one go in 2013, as streaming services cut back — If you call a slew of Hollywood's most powerful showrunners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $661.4M, vs. $642M est., subscription revenue up 12% YoY, and net profit of $539K, vs. a $27.4M net loss a year ago — Shares of the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. are trending higher today after it delivered a solid first quarter earnings …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma will include Link Tracking Protection in Mail, Messages, and Safari's private mode to automatically remove tracking parameters in URLs — iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma include even more privacy-preserving features while browsing the web. — Link Tracking Protection … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast feature as “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment and other monetization services — June 8, 2023 … The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world's most popular chat app.
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| John Perrino / Tech Policy Press: |
Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to boost social network transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, content moderation stats, more — John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act …
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