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Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more — Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app]
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review to replace Google with Bing as the default search engine on its mobile devices, citing market perception concerns — Samsung Electronics suspends internal review that contemplated changing its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing
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Sources: Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data — The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet — Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut is locked in a fight with top shareholder SoftBank after UK regulators told the company it must simplify its ownership to win a banking license — Minister to meet payment group's bosses amid fears UK's biggest tech group will leave the country
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple shares its first App Store Transparency Report, listing app rejections, government requests, and more, as part of a settlement in a 2021 developer lawsuit — Earlier this week, Apple shared an in-depth look at how the App Store helped prevent fraud and protect developers and customers alike.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Hyundai agrees to settle with ~9M US Hyundai and Kia owners for $200M, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok in mid-2022 — Most of the money from the settlement will go toward compensating theft victims. — Hyundai is putting …
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Source: Instacart generated ~$740M in 2022 ad revenue, up 30% YoY; nearly 30% of the company's 2022 revenue came from its ads unit, which launched in 2019 — Instacart has become an advertising powerhouse. — The grocery-delivery firm's ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year …
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| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
The Australian Securities Exchange no longer plans to try to rebuild its software using blockchain, after “pausing” seven years of development in November 2022 — Australia's stock market operator said it will no longer attempt to rebuild its software platform with blockchain-based technology …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment, media agency GroupM tells its clients that Twitter is no longer “high risk”, a designation from November 2022 — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
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| Ezra Marcus / Grub Street: |
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube that market to young diners — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant365, which sells restaurant management software, raised $135M led by KKR and L Catterton at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $288M — The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn't (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apollo Global and Fortress Investment are each spending ~$50M to back competing groups that aim to restart Celsius under new management — Investors that buy and turn around downtrodden companies have largely shunned crypto — Two Wall Street heavyweights are locked in a bidding war …
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Five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app on January 1, 2024, arguing the law violates their First Amendment rights and more — A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A look at Apple's Personal Voice, an accessibility feature that lets ALS patients digitize their voices on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, set to arrive later in 2023 — Among the many challenges people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face is its impact on their speech.
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| David C. Banks / Chalkbeat New York: |
New York City Public Schools lifts its ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI, and plans to support its educators and students learning and exploring the tech — After a cautious start, our approach to AI technology is evolving. — As Chancellor of the nation's largest school system …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Jeff Jordan, a16z's fifth general partner who joined in 2011, steps back from active investments but will continue to work on his portfolio and board positions — Longtime Andreessen Horowitz venture capitalist Jeff Jordan is stepping back from active investments.
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@moorehn, @anthemos, @chrisfralic, @alexrkonrad, and @rahulchandra77. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK court throws out a case against Google over the transfer of 1.6M patients' medical records by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and their alleged misuse — Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK sentences Tejay Fletcher, the mastermind behind phone number spoofing service iSpoof, which scammed victims out of ~£100M, to over 13 years in prison — The mastermind behind a global “spoofing shop” that scammed victims out of as much as £100 million ($124 million) …
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