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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue” — / Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Less than two days after launch, Mark Zuckerberg says Threads signups reached 70M, which is “way beyond our expectations” — - Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has exploded in growth in its first full day since its public debut Wednesday night, fueled by Instagram's already massive userbase.
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality — NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions — A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout — Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Gemini sues DCG and its founder; Cameron Winklevoss accuses Barry Silbert of being “the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors” — - Crypto exchange Gemini sued Digital Currency Group and its founder on Friday, accusing Barry Silbert of being …
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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
A look at assistive apps like Be My Eyes and Ask Envision, which integrate GPT-4 to give visually impaired users more visual details about the world around them — Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.| Reuters: |
Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI's ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon's arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development — - Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site's “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
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| Associated Press: |
A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new $17.96/hour minimum pay for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city — A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers …
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| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.| Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns — When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming …
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