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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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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Russian telcos and ISPs blocked or restricted access to Google News and other news sources during Kremlin's feud with a mercenary leader — At least five telecommunications companies have blocked the service, which aggregates news from various sources, according to an analysis from NetBlocks, an internet observatory.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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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
| 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
More: Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and Reuters
| 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
| 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
| 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.| 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 — YouTube wants to make it easier to dub your videos in other languages by giving you some help with AI.
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