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June 29, 2023, 5:55 AM

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The Verge:
Sony accidentally revealed confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan  —  Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Ina Fried / Axios:
A survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported receiving online hate in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022  —  More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League …
Joshua Wolens / PC Gamer:
Reddit user sliced_lime, most likely Mojang's Mikael Hedberg, says Minecraft will no longer post to r/Minecraft due to Reddit's API pricing changes  —  The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.  —  If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain private beyond the timeframe set for this week to confirm reopening plans  —  / 'This community will not remain private beyond the timeframe we've allowed for confirmation of plans here.'
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave  —  A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail — is officially launching its password manager to everyone.
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads  —  New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
A California-based law firm launches a class-action suit against OpenAI, claiming the company violated millions of internet users' rights by scraping their data  —  A California law firm says the company's use of scraped data from the web violates the rights of millions of internet users
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Report: FTX's exchange reboot may include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain customers; indications of interest in the restart are due this week  —  - FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported.
Kim Zetter / Zero Day:
SolarWinds confirms its CISO and CFO both received Wells notices from the SEC, a rare move, signaling they may face legal action over the company's 2020 breach  —  In a highly rare move, the SEC sent notice to SolarWinds' CISO, and other specific employees, indicating they may face legal action over Russia's hack of their company.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Phone monitoring app LetMeSpy, used to spy on thousands of Android users, says a hacker stole the messages, call logs, and locations the spyware had intercepted  —  A data breach reveals the spyware is built by a Polish developer  —  A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs …
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Source: at a hearing on June 30, Apple plans to argue that the EU wrongly accused the company of illegal App Store curbs after complaints by Spotify and others  —  Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn't need to make any more changes …
Andrew Brust / The New Stack:
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, an LLM interface that lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new Lakehouse AI tools, and more  —  We review Databricks' announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday's Snowflake Summit reveals.
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after a report suggested millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users  —  Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies  —  Advertising industry figures …
Casey Hall / Reuters:
Chinese livestream shopping shifts from big discounts, as Apple and other brands seek control over a process made costly by market fragmentation and superhosts  —  When tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) joined China's livestreaming frenzy, a major driving force of the e-commerce boom …

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