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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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) …
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 …
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

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Wall Street Journal:
A profile of incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a telecom lawyer and longtime FCC official who believes tech and media companies have been unfair to conservatives

Wall Street Journal:
Sources describe Netflix's struggles handling traffic for the Tyson-Paul fight, with viewership nearly three times what the company had anticipated

Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Q&A with Julia Angwin on how social media creators flipped the traditional journalism process for telling stories and what journalists can learn from creators

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Julian Lucas / New Yorker:
A look at MoMA's “Never Alone” exhibit, featuring a collection of 35 video games, making MoMA one of very few art museums to have a permanent games collection
McKenna Oxenden / New York Times:
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers

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Wes Davis / The Verge:
Valve won't publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will not allow any AI-generated content
Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
California regulators plan to decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 Waymo and Cruise driverless cabs in San Francisco; city officials fume over having no say
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data
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