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June 25, 2023, 1:25 AM
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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
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
US law enforcement seized the clear web domain of BreachForums on June 22, after arresting the data leak site's alleged operator “Pompompurin” on March 15  —  U.S. law enforcement today seized the clear web domain of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Many LastPass users say they've been locked out of their accounts and can't access their vault after being asked to reset their authenticator apps in early May  —  LastPass password manager users have been experiencing significant login issues starting early May after being prompted to reset their authenticator apps.
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 …
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
Bluesky:
Bluesky publishes proposals for new moderation and safety tooling, focusing on user lists and reply controls for community-driven moderation, hashtags, and more  —  The goal of Bluesky is to turn social media into a shared public commons.  We don't want to own people's social graphs or communities.
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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Xbox isn't a “robust business”, failing to meet internal targets, and the Activision deal is a way to expand into mobile  —  FTC v. Microsoft day two was all about console wars and whether Xbox is really in a distant third place.
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 …
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 …
The Economic Times:
Sundar Pichai says Google plans to invest $10B in India's digitization fund and announces the opening of Google's fintech operation center in GIFT City, Gujarat
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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Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

More News

Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube is testing Aloud, an AI-powered dubbing tool developed by Google's Area 120, with “hundreds” of creators, starting with English, Spanish, and Portuguese
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”

Earlier Picks

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
New York Times:
A profile of Michael Kives, a Hollywood agent turned investor, as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover the $700M that SBF had invested
Anand J / Moneycontrol:
Sources: Apple is in talks to launch Apple Card in India, and has met with HDFC and the RBI; a source says Apple is holding Apple Pay discussions with the NPCI
Wall Street Journal:
Thierry Breton says he sees a “strong willingness” from Twitter to comply with the EU's DSA and that the company was the first to undergo the law's stress test
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