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Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023 — Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff …
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Evernote, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Silicon Republic, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, and Technologizer
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/Evernote, and Beehaw
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
A comparison of what personal data Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social collect from users, based on their listings in Apple's App Store — Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
More: MakeUseOf, Techlusive, The i Paper, BetaNews, International Business Times, Polygon, Rolling Stone, The Eclectic Light Company, and MarketWatch
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Mastodon: @McCullohMD@disabled.social, @austinkocher@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, and @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon …
Twitter: @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @petreraleigh, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @crickettgrrrl, @ackocher, @follylollysews, @stellabelle, and @madoldmoai
Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Quiver Quantitative: Instagram Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours — Instagram's text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days. The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources say testing began in April 2023 with the Mayo Clinic and others — Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams — Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …
More: The Verge, XDA Developers, Engadget, Business Today, PCMag, The Economic Times, The Decoder, and Techlusive
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material — Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/books, r/technology, r/MediaSynthesis, and r/Fauxmoi
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases in-house ChatGPT plug-in Code Interpreter to all Plus subscribers, helping them analyze data, create charts, edit files, and more — OpenAI first announced third-party software application plug-ins for its hit service ChatGPT back in March, allowing users to extend …
More: OpenAI Help Center, One Useful Thing, Insider, chatgptguide.ai, BigTechWire, Analytics Insight, SM Raiyyan, TestingCatalog, and Fortune
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, the Snap Star creator program, shows early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse its declining revenue — Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales — Snap's efforts to lure creators and their followers …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Forbes
| Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups and academics say the recent US ruling limiting government tech company contacts could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives — Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’
LinkedIn: Patrick Warren. Bluesky: @katestarbird.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @intelwire@mastodon.social
Twitter: @bostonjoan, @attorneynora, and @justinhendrix
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments — Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV
More: Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, Entrackr, and TechNode
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Foxconn pulls out of a $19.5B Indian chip and display joint venture, announced in 2022, with conglomerate Vedanta and is “working to remove the Foxconn name” — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd …
More: Business Today, Display Daily, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut's US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut shut the loophole, equivalent to ~66% of its 2021 net profit — During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
VR game makers say women are buying headsets due to fitness and workout apps, a shift from the male-dominated early days; <10% of Quest users were women in 2019 — Seeking to broaden their customer base, makers of virtual reality headsets move away from gaming and into new types of apps| 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 …
More: Noahpinion, Decrypt, and The Guardian
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
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Mastodon: @falschgold@mastodon.social and @ppatel@mstdn.social
Twitter: @scottnover, @natesilver538, @noahpinion, @jeremylittau, @pt, @aghamilton29, and @washingtonpost. Threads: @hankgreen
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