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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, Silicon Republic, Thurrott, Evernote, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, and Technologizer
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, 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: Techlusive, The i Paper, BetaNews, Polygon, International Business Times, Rolling Stone, The Eclectic Light Company, MarketWatch, Fortune, Gizmodo, Near Media, and Techaeris
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Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, Business Today, The Economic Times, PCMag, The Decoder, and Techlusive
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| 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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Twitter: @natesilver538, @scottnover, @noahpinion, @jeremylittau, @pt, @aghamilton29, and @washingtonpost. Threads: @hankgreen
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/Foodforthought, and r/Twitter
| 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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| 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
| 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 and The Verge
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
AI rules proposed by Chuck Schumer for the US and by the EU may shut more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development — It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools.
Twitter: @rsi, @katharinakoern1, and @adamthierer
| 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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again — Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
More: robertodoering / harpy on GitHub, Neowin, and Engadget
| 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 …
More: The Verge, Engadget, The Economic Times, Social Media Today, TweakTown, and PYMNTS.com
| Financial Times: |
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta's apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022 — UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud
More: PYMNTS.com and Cryptopolitan
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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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Threads: @mosseri, @martinsfp, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
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| Turner Novak / The Split: |
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