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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is using his Instagram to promote an edgier image to court the “tech bros” captivated by Musk's online antagonism and offline antics — Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to appear more relevant among the tech elite
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Twitter: @drewharwell, @tomphilpott, @davidlaz, @stevessanders, @penamerica, @beckbjj, @basche42, and @pt
| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Startups are using remote work to attract talent; report: 81% of companies with fewer than 5K employees offer remote work vs. 26% for those with 25K+ employees — How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys. — It used to be that Big Tech companies like Google …
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Twitter: @_aloisi, @amydiehl, and @tomaxwell
| Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs in 2022 were “automated or from bots” — Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users …
LinkedIn: Michael Jackson. Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @jessicalessin, @katie_roof, @chrisalbon, @cindygallop, @bryce, @joshuaogundu, @zachweinberg, @ryxcommar, @joepostingg, @martinsfp, @bennetttomlin, @counternotions, @theryanford, @brianstelter, and @cgrantwsj. Forums: r/technology
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Meta plans to debut its Twitter rival, potentially named Threads, in mid-July and is pitching celebrities and creators to join a “sanely” run platform — Mark Zuckerberg is the overwhelming favorite to beat Elon Musk in a cage match. Will it actually happen?
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google invited employees to test Playables, a YouTube product that lets users play games like Stack Bounce instantly on the YouTube site or app — The new service, called ‘Playables,’ is part of CEO's push into new areas amid advertising slowdown
More: SlashGear, PC Gamer, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, and Reuters
| Bloonface / Café Lob-On: |
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration that started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture, decentralization making the UX worse, more — I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey - I'm just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here …
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Mastodon: @fireynis@techhub.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @wezm@mastodon …, @summeremacs@fashionsocial …, @nihar@hachyderm.io, @mho@social.heise.de, and @braker1nine@social.lol
Twitter: @dimensionmedia, @jangles, @swyx, @miniver, @ryanfoxeth, @zzyzx, @carlvellotti, @amyhoy, @bluecoyote, @ketanj0, @apenwarr, @kevinriggle, @ryanfoxeth, and @schmutzie
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to invest $15B more in India by 2030, likely most for AWS expansion; in May 2023, AWS announced a $12.7B investment in the country — Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said …
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| The Economic Times: |
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Twitter: @ani, @pmoindia, @moneycontrolcom, and @sundarpichai
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire cloud-based IT management startup Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for ~$5B; Vista acquired Apptio for ~$2B in 2019 — Purchase of Apptio, owned by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners, could be finalized over the weekend
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| Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian: |
The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest European Media Freedom Act draft that would let national security agencies place spyware on journalists' phones — Move to allow spyware to be placed on reporters' phones would have a ‘chilling effect’, say media experts
More: Washington Post. Mastodon: @helma@mastodon.social. Twitter: @annanemtsova, @rektor_linnea, @lindseysnell, and @timand2037
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5B to stop Sony from paying for Bethesda games like Starfield to be PlayStation exclusives — Microsoft's Xbox chief has revealed one of the key reasons behind the acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax: potential Starfield PlayStation exclusivity.
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Twitter: @tomwarren and @gossithedog
Forums: r/gamingnews, r/Starfield, r/Starfield, r/Games, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to five years in prison for helping hack into dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts in July 2020 — Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years — Three years after one of the most visible hacks …
More: US Department of Justice, Engadget, The Guardian, The Hacker News, Matthew Russell Lee's …, Bloomberg, The Verge, and DataBreaches.net
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. Twitter: @joetidy, @frasermatthew, @innercitypress, and @innercitypress
| Wired: |
How companies are repurposing military-grade AI, built by US defense contractors for intelligence, to identify labor organizing, internal leakers, and critics — Spycraft developed by defense contractors are now being sold to employers to identify labor organizing. Regulators must step up to protect workers' privacy.Sponsor Posts
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