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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping  —  Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits  —  For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Elon Musk claims the Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred organizations” were scraping data “extremely aggressively”  —  Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky says it is “temporarily” pausing new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic”  —  / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
The Indian Express:
Twitter users globally report site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages when trying to view or post tweets  —  Twitter has been hit by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case  —  Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The moderators of r/IAmA say they won't solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers  —  The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Major third-party Reddit apps Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader shut down on June 30, ahead of Reddit's plan to enforce its new API rate limits starting on July 1
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices  —  Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
More: Cryptopolitan and Analytics Insight
LinkedIn: Ann Cairns.  Twitter: @lauloknows, @petenottage, and @jopas
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data  —  A prominent author's decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads's power in publishing …

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Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Filing: a US judge dismisses with prejudice Trump's defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal regarding a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein signed by Trump

The Information:
OpenAI signs partnerships with Magnite and PubMatic to fill unsold ad inventory on ChatGPT, adding to deals with Amazon Ads, Criteo, LiveRamp, and others

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $4.57B, ad revenue up 47% to $2B, driven by its World Cup broadcasts, and net income up 57% of $957M; FOX jumps 4%

More News

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
California regulators plan to decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 Waymo and Cruise driverless cabs in San Francisco; city officials fume over having no say
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
More: Forbes.  LinkedIn: Patrick Biltgen.  Bluesky: @9six7.bsky.social.  Mastodon: @flargh@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social.  Twitter: @kevinokeefe
NBC News:
The FBI formed an online database in May 2023 to track and prevent swatting by facilitating coordination between police departments and law enforcement agencies

Earlier Picks

Christian Davies / Financial Times:
YouTube removes three North Korean influencer channels posting about daily life, after South Korea labelled them as propaganda tools of “psychological warfare”
Wilfred Chan / Fast Company:
The TSA says its facial recognition tech is expanding to ~430 US airports, and its algorithms are 97% effective “across demographics, including dark skin tones”
Bloomberg:
Fidelity, Invesco, VanEck, 21Shares, and WisdomTree refile for spot bitcoin ETFs, with Coinbase providing market surveillance, to answer the US SEC's objections
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Nasdaq gained 32% in H1 2023, its best first half since 1983's 37% rise; Nvidia is up 195%+, Meta is up 130%+, Apple and Amazon are up 50%+, Alphabet is up 34%+
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks to have American Express take over its Apple ventures, including Apple Card, Apple's “buy now, pay later” offering, and more
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