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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page — If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you may find you're unable to see any of the content …
More: BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, Engadget, Neowin, WRAL TechWire, and Mashable
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Ten years after Google killed Google Reader, the team that built the much-beloved RSS app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been — Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
More: 9to5Google and Beehaw
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US SEC told Nasdaq and Cboe that their spot bitcoin ETF applications on behalf of BlackRock and others aren't sufficiently clear and comprehensive — Regulator tells Nasdaq, Cboe that recent filings from BlackRock, Fidelity and others aren't clear and comprehensive
More: DL News, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, NewsBTC, CryptoSlate, The Daily Hodl, Decrypt, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, Watcher Guru, NBC 7 San Diego, The Block, Reuters, CryptoPotato, and Cryptonews
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
TSMC confirms experiencing a data breach after the LockBit ransomware gang listed the company as a victim; LockBit is demanding $70M to not publish stolen data — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it's experienced …
More: SecurityWeek, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, The Record, CNN, PCMag, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Tech Monitor, ExtremeTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Hardware, CRN, Wccftech, HotHardware, and Infosecurity. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Hackers claim responsibility for attacking Russian satellite internet service Dozor-Teleport; the IODA project says the network went down at 10pm EST on June 28 — A group of previously unknown hackers has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Russian satellite communications …
More: Washington Post, DatacenterDynamics, CyberScoop, Metacurity, Security Boulevard, and PCMag
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Executives from over 150 European companies sign an open letter saying the draft AI Act would jeopardize the EU's competitiveness without addressing challenges — Executives from 150 businesses, including Siemens and Heineken, highlight risks of tight regulation
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Some developers paying for Twitter's API, including the $42K/month Enterprise tier, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and poor or no customer support — Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over. — Twitter's new API may now cost tens of thousands of dollars per month …
More: Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Gizchina, and Wired
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022 — - Apple's market cap topped $3 trillion on Friday, passing the $190.73 share price required to hit the milestone, according to CNBC's most recent share count.
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart — The house Joe Zawadzki built will be foreclosed. — AdExchanger has learned that the demand-side platform …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one — If you, too, are so very tired of not knowing which reviews to trust on the internet, we may eventually get some peace of mind.
More: Washington Post, Federal Trade Commission, PCMag, Engadget, TechCrunch, Tech Startups, and Near Media
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| Reuters: |
The UK CMA worries Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition “could stifle innovation and lead to higher costs” and gives Adobe five days for proposals to address concerns — Britain's competition regulator on Friday said Photoshop owner Adobe Inc's (ADBE.O) $20 billion buyout … | Sachin Ravikumar / Reuters: |
The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety — Britain said on Friday it had tightened protections in its Online Safety Bill that will prevent children from viewing pornography …
More: The Guardian, GOV.UK, BBC, Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, Neowin, UKTN, and Silicon Republic
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| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
Canada may think Bill C-18 still has more room for negotiation, based on Meta's 2021 deal with Australia, but tech platforms no longer view news as valuable — On June 22, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act. The new law, according to a government news release …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A summary of the final day and closing arguments in the FTC v. Microsoft hearing; the FTC focused most of its case on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity — FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? … Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley took the opportunity to reflect, too … | Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
The Netherlands publishes new controls to restrict the export of more ASML machines to China, starting on September 1; ASML doesn't expect a “material impact” — The Netherlands published new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding NV's chipmaking machines from being sent to China.
More: Reuters, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, TechPowerUp, Nikkei Asia, Livemint, Tech Monitor, and Politico
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify is in talks with partners to add full-length music videos to its app, as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its app — Spotify Technology SA is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete …
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, Spotify, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Music Ally, and Rest of World. Twitter: @dada_drummer
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok is offering free listings, shipping, zero commissions, and warehousing to Chinese merchants, ahead of debuting its online marketplace in the US — TikTok is taking a page from the playbook bargains app Temu employed to jumpstart its business in America …
More: Billboard
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
A US bankruptcy judge rules that Celsius “may sell or convert any non-BTC and non-ETH” crypto tokens or assets to Bitcoin or Ethereum starting on July 1, 2023 — The sell-off precedes creditor distributions that will only be made in the two most popular cryptocurrencies.
More: Blockworks, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, The Block, Crypto Briefing, CoinJournal, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CryptoPotato. Twitter: @northrocklp
| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
Following the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna, South Korea passes the Virtual Asset User Protection law, which defines digital assets, imposes penalties, and more — South Korea approved its first standalone digital-asset bill to boost investor protection just over a year after the implosion … | PYMNTS.com: |
Unit21, a no-code and customizable data monitoring service, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium for identifying fraud — Unit21 has raised $45 million in a Series C round to grow the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium. — The funding is being used …
More: Unit21, FinSMEs, Axios, Crowdfund Insider, and FinTech Global
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