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The Verge:
Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”  —  Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else.
David Ingram / NBC News:
Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow  —  Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12  —  Reddit Inc. said that most of the company's communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more  —  Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit's rules may let the platform replace protesting moderators
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver's license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs  —  Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit …
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites  —  The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign …
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won't release an app citing misuse risks  —  But the company won't be sharing the app or its source code for the time being.  —  Today, we are one step closer …
Bloomberg:
NY AG's documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies' securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper  —  Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …
Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice:
Alleged official renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 show the clamshell-style foldable could have a 3.4" outer display, up from its predecessors' 1.9" screen  —  The newly revealed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 design render shows that the clamshell-style foldable phone is certainly getting a significant upgrade.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta plans to lower the minimum age for Quest headsets from 13 to 10, with under-13s' profiles and avatars set to private by default; Horizon Worlds remains 13+  —  Government scrutiny of how tech companies handle their underage users is continuing to heat up.
CoinDesk:
France probes Binance over alleged illegal digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance exits the Netherlands after failing to get a license  —  Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks …
Manya Saini / Reuters:
BlackRock files a US SEC application to register a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian; the SEC has rejected all bitcoin spot ETFs to date  —  BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) …
Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired:
Stack Overflow removed gender and race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men  —  The coding hub's 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men.  This time around it simply dropped the question.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other  —  The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is US regulatory clarity on offering coins “compliantly”  —  Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto …

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From Mediagazer

Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Freedom of the Press Foundation, a shareholder in Paramount, is threatening legal action against the company if it settles with President Trump

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney+ will exclusively stream every season of CoComelon starting in 2027, paying tens of millions of dollars annually to take it away from Netflix

Politico:
A look at California's revamped Google journalism deal after Gov. Newsom dialed back state support and Google dropped its 2025 contribution from $15M to $10M

More News

Benedict Evans:
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
In a cease and desist, Texas' securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent since at least March 31, 2023, and accuses the company of fraud
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Hanan Elatr, Jamal Khashoggi's widow, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus phone spyware to track them both
Financial Times:
Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe
Bloomberg:
In a meeting with Bill Gates, Xi Jinping says China is willing to engage in tech cooperation with the US; Xi could meet Antony Blinken on June 18 or June 19

Earlier Picks

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA clears Amazon's $1.7B iRobot deal announced in August 2022, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation by or against Tesla and Twitter
More: Insider and Reuters
Bluesky: @romitmehta.com.  Mastodon: @Big_Worker@ioc.exchange.  Tweets: @jeremiahlee, @drewwash, and @arawnsley.  Forums: r/news
Reuters:
Micron plans to invest $603M in its chip packaging facility in Xian, China; in May 2023, China blocked key infrastructure operators from buying Micron products
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Intel announces Tunnel Falls, its first quantum chip, featuring 12 qubits that use electrons to store data, available to select academic and research partners
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch launches a Partner Plus tier, offering a 70/30 revenue sharing split to creators who have 350+ recurring paid subscriptions for three consecutive months
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