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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web interface, offering an early look at what to expect at launch on July 6; the service appears to have 2,500+ users — Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Jassy asked Amazon's Hollywood studio for detailed budgets to scrutinize ballooning costs; Amazon spent $7B on originals, sports, and more in 2022 — I am off this week; that means no newsletter Sunday. — (Tips are still welcome at lshaw31@bloomberg.net or on Signal.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Australia searched many Binance Australia locations as part of its derivatives investigation; CZ acknowledged that “external pressure” has hurt Binance — Binance's offices in Australia were searched by the country's financial markets regulator as governments around …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk's “temporary emergency measure”; profiles remain blocked — The platform is becoming slightly more usable just as Meta opens up its Twitter competitor.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Fairphone and Murena partner to launch the user-repairable, modular Fairphone 4 in the US for $599+, unlocked and running the Google-free /e/ OS, not Android — The storage of both models can be expanded via microSD, and the phone features a modular design that can be easily disassembled using …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest and busiest port, plans to resume operations by July 6 after a July 4 ransomware attack; no group has claimed responsibility — The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.
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| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. says that music containing AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered — Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
AI-based full-body scanner startup Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Watty founder Hjalmar Nilsonne, raised a €60M Series A led by Lakestar — Neko Health, the medical diagnostics company co-founded by Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek …
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| Will Bedingfield / Wired: |
A look at AI Dungeon and other games that let players use generative AI to create in-game content, raising questions about authorship, ownership, and copyright — Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
CADDi, which offers a B2B marketplace for the manufacturing industry and an AI-powered cloud service for managing drawing data, raised a $89M Series C — The pandemic has damaged the entire manufacturing supply chain, which is not likely to return to normal until at least 2024 due to a few challenges …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
After Fortinet patched a major FortiOS bug on June 12, researchers find that ~336K out of ~490K affected SSL VPN interfaces are still unpatched and open to RCE — Cybersecurity experts are raising the alarm about a new vulnerability that leaves hundreds of thousands of Fortinet customers vulnerable to attack.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT iOS app downloads and Bing app downloads in the US were down 38% MoM in June 2023; BofA estimates traffic to ChatGPT was down ~11% MoM — - AI may be the hottest thing in the technology industry, but OpenAI's ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google's grip …
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| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue down 13.8% YoY to ~$41.76B and June revenue down 19.7% YoY to ~$13.6B due to weak consumer device demand, but forecasts a brighter Q3 — Taiwan's Foxconn, a major iPhone assembler for Apple Inc (AAPL.O), said on Wednesday that second quarter revenue dropped 13.8% year …
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| Jack Thompson / Rest of World: |
How some farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write use WhatsApp voice notes to collaborate with NGOs and researchers to share the latest farming tips — For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
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