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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
More: Forbes, TweakTown, Music Ally, Mashable, MakeUseOf, Social Media Today, Insider, CNBC, Dexerto, Fortune, and AppleInsider
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/DeFranco, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky resumes new sign-ups after a temporary pause to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
More: Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Techlusive
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Twitter: @ericprhodes, @jwsherrod, and @tomwarren
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to less than 400K units in 2024 due to manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case — Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The moderators of r/IAmA say they won't solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers — The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
More: 9to5Mac, The Information, Neowin, WinBuzzer, NPR, and The Verge
Forums: r/IAmA, r/apolloapp, r/technology, and r/Save3rdPartyApps
| Bernhard Warner / New York Times: |
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue — For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.| New York Times: |
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB — Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Twitter: @satariano, @paulmozur, @mer__edith, and @paulmozur
| Benedict Evans: |
An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
LinkedIn: Allan Thygesen. Bluesky: @fudge.org. Twitter: @newley, @stevesi, @benedictevans, @dok2001, @aridavidpaul, @willcritchlow, @eswarpr, and @_jeremyflores. Forums: Hacker News
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
More: Cryptopolitan. LinkedIn: Ann Cairns. Twitter: @mhbergen, @lauloknows, @petenottage, and @jopas. Forums: r/singularity
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant, which set off polarizing debates on free speech and risks — A new generation of chatbots doesn't have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.
Twitter: @natolambert and @nytimes
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