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Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening” — Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else.
More: Forbes, NBC News, 9to5Mac, PCMag, IGN, Social Media Today, Insider, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and Game Rant
Bluesky: @jakeliebert.com. Tweets: @lordravenscraft, @jakuuire, @kennethdavid, @loganalogy, @vogon, @miarsato, @eshear, @andymanganelli, and @anandsheth2
Forums: Hacker News, r/ModCoord, r/funny, r/technology, and r/RedditAlternatives
| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12 — Reddit Inc. said that most of the company's communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut …
More: NBC News. Tweets: @pt, @markets, @oceanbound, @mouleofficial, @mikesimonsen, and @tomnamako
Forums: Hacker News, r/Destiny, r/boston, r/True_Kentucky, and r/Drama
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow — Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
More: The Verge. Bluesky: @arctictony.bsky.social and @epro.social
Tweets: @mattbinder, @jakeformers, @neonacho, @erickfernandez, and @benjamingoggin
Forums: r/nottheonion and r/elonmusk
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more — Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …
More: NPR, TechRadar, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Reddit Upvoted, CNBC, Insider, MacRumors, Techdirt, Engadget, Mashable, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, CNN, WinBuzzer, KnowTechie, Neowin, Mother Jones, TweakTown, iMore, Phandroid, Forbes, Kotaku, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Verge
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Tweets: @benjamingoggin, @minimaxir, @albertwenger, @ambermac, @anildash, @oneunderscore__, @moorehn, @nickbaumgardner, @arawnsley, @alecmuffett, @balf4our, @0x, @turtlekiosk, @mathewi, @jonathanvanian, @iqbal_farabi, @queer_queenie, @knittins, @queer_queenie, @brianmfloyd, @film_girl, @docsquiddy, @nameshiv, @noturtlesoup17, @papapishu, @mirandareinert, @rjcc, @yoda, @dorseyshaw, @jeremypgordon, @cooperlund, @durjoy, @nkulw, @rjonesy, @iboudreau, @trevmckendrick, @david_ingram, and @bobbyallyn
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/ModCoord, r/Quebec, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/Anarcho_Capitalism, r/BoostForReddit, r/Freethought, r/theworldnews, r/Conservative, r/SteamDeck, r/inthenews, r/LateStageCapitalism, r/conspiracy, r/NewOrleans, r/technology, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/ObsidianMD, r/ConservativeKiwi, r/APIcalypse, r/Romania, r/AutisticWithADHD, r/hyderabad, r/neutralnews, r/Quebec, r/VRchat, r/neoliberal, r/RedditAlternatives, r/SVSeeker_Free, r/RedditAlternatives, r/modclub, r/skeptic, r/InternetBrasil, r/dezwo, r/auckland, r/hackernews, r/technology, r/TrueAnon, r/walkaway, r/news, r/truenews, r/Save3rdPartyApps, and r/NPR
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @tawnniee, @tomwarren, and @daveleebbg
Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver's license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs — Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit …
More: Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, New York Times, Missouri Office …, The Record, Oregon Department …, Reuters, The Guardian, Oregonian, Wired, StateScoop, PCMag, Oregon Capital Chronicle, Bend Bulletin, Statesman Journal, DataBreaches.net, RestorePrivacy, GCN, gHacks Technology News, Silicon Republic, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @snlyngaas and @nc_governor
Forums: r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites — The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign …
More: Forbes, PC Gamer, Dexerto, Game Rant, and Dot Esports
Forums: r/StreamCentral and r/PaymoneyWubby
| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won't release an app citing misuse risks — But the company won't be sharing the app or its source code for the time being. — Today, we are one step closer …
More: Meta, Meta AI, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, Meta Research, Digital Trends, Dexerto, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Android Authority, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Neil Mawston. Tweets: @omarsar0, @alphasignalai, @benjamindekr, @altryne, @daveleebbg, and @_akhaliq
| Bloomberg: |
NY AG's documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies' securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper — Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …
More: Tether, CoinDesk, Tether, Decrypt, The Block, Finbold, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Protos, CryptoSlate, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Watcher Guru
Mastodon: @mostlyharmlessz …. Tweets: @tether_to, @jasonleopold, @yueqi_yang, @macrocephalopod, @baidakova, @yueqi_yang, @mikejcasey, @silvermanjacob, @patio11, @sarahnemerson, @yueqi_yang, @parrotcapital, @icodrops, @napgener, @_fabianhd, @edzitron, and @timccopeland
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Buttcoin
| Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice: |
Alleged official renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 show the clamshell-style foldable could have a 3.4" outer display, up from its predecessors' 1.9" screen — The newly revealed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 design render shows that the clamshell-style foldable phone is certainly getting a significant upgrade.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta plans to lower the minimum age for Quest headsets from 13 to 10, with under-13s' profiles and avatars set to private by default; Horizon Worlds remains 13+ — Government scrutiny of how tech companies handle their underage users is continuing to heat up.
More: Meta, PCMag, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNN, New York Times, UploadVR, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @zamaan_qureshi, @alexeheath, @daveleebbg, and @keithdsouza
| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
BlackRock files a US SEC application to register a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian; the SEC has rejected all bitcoin spot ETFs to date — BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) …
More: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CNBC, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Decrypt, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptonews, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, ZyCrypto, CCN.com, Finbold, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, DL News, Crypto Daily, NewsBTC, NullTX, Coinspeaker, Axios, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, Financial Times, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and Fortune
Tweets: @documentingbtc, @collins_belton, @smtuffy, @scottmelker, @jasonklau, @woofbigdawg, and @ogdfarmer
| CoinDesk: |
France probes Binance over alleged illegal digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance exits the Netherlands after failing to get a license — Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks …
More: Binance, CoinDesk, Reuters, Protos, Bloomberg, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, Finbold, Ethereum World News, CoinGape, Bitcoin News, Wu Blockchain, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, Crypto Daily, Bitcoinist.com, nft now, Inside Bitcoins, The Block, Decrypt, and Finextra
Tweets: @cz_binance, @binance, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, @mishaboar, @niubi, and @hmalviya9. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Stack Overflow removed gender and race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men — The coding hub's 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men. This time around it simply dropped the question.
Bluesky: @hypercubexl.bsky.social. Tweets: @stokel, @quinnypig, @keithdsouza, @mmitchell_ai, and @sashamtl
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other — The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
More: Google Help Center and Search Engine Land
Mastodon: @jon@henshaw.social. Tweets: @michellelegro, @dietkramer, @searchliaison, @marshacollier, @joshuatopolsky, @miarsato, and @pedrodias. Forums: Slashdot
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is US regulatory clarity on offering coins “compliantly” — Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto …
More: The Block, Benzinga, crypto.news, Decrypt, ZyCrypto, CoinGape, Blockworks, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoin News, and Cryptopolitan. Tweets: @leomschwartz
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