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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A judge issues an injunction blocking key Biden admin officials from contacting social media companies, in a case brought by MO and LA AGs over vaccine posts — The Trump-appointed judge's move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.
More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Associated Press, CNN, The Hill, USA Today, Politico, Insider, Reuters, Engadget, Deadline, Reclaim The Net, CourtListener, Watcher Guru, and The Week
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Forums: r/politics, r/neoliberal, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have allowed bad actors to evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising — The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies. — Twitter has been even more of a mess …
More: Twitter for Business, The Verge, Bloomberg, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, Agence France-Presse, Insider, Business Post, New York Post, The Irish Times, and TechCrunch
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
More: noyb.eu, EU Court of Justice, Reuters, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Computerworld, Financial Times, New York Times, ComputerWeekly.com, The Register, Cryptopolitan, RTÉ, Business Post, and TechCircle
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking — Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …
More: Pixel Envy, Euractiv, and Fortune
| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
OpenAI temporarily pulls its Browse with Bing beta feature from ChatGPT Plus after users found that requesting a URL's full text let them bypass some paywalls — ChatGPT aided users aiming to bypass paywalls, but OpenAI put a stop to it. — What you need to know| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A likely fake 8-month-old Twitter account with a Blue check and 130K followers, suspended after WaPo informed Twitter, is a case study in political rage baiting — The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points
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Forums: r/TheLib, r/sanepolitics, r/Enough_Sanders_Spam, and r/ActiveMeasures
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads …
More: New York Times, Reuters, App Store, BBC, 9to5Google, Polygon, Moneycontrol, Scripting News, MSPoweruser, New York Post, MobileSyrup, Android Police, Supercharged, The Sun, TechEBlog, Tech.co, Business Post, PC Gamer, Dexerto, MIT Technology Review, KGET-TV, Engadget, TechCircle, Washington Post, The Hill, mjtsai.com, Bloomberg, Metaverse Post, Digital Music News, and BGR
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
More: Independent.ie, Threads, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NBC News, Neowin, IGN, The Irish Times, News18, Techpoint Africa, Fast Company, Insider, Forbes, Toronto Star, USA Today, and Insider
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform — An era of the internet is ending, and we're watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep …
More: Wall Street Journal. Bluesky: @peterabraham.bsky.social. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon …, @antimnguyen@mastodon …, @joel@fosstodon.org, and @ernie@writing.exchange
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Foodforthought, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Financial Times: |
South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022 — Beijing's move to impose restrictions follows escalating US controls on technology — Trade officials were assessing the fallout …
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LinkedIn: Matthew Silveira. Twitter: @timbuckleycef, @thorstenbenner, @ft, @rchoongwilkins, @katecrawford, @patrickmoorhead, @stuartlwallace, and @pstasiatech
Forums: r/worldnews and r/neoliberal
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Spill, an invite-only Twitter alternative designed as a safe destination for LGBTQ and Black people that added 100K+ users over the past three days — Designed by former Twitter employees, the app has attracted users including Questlove and garnered interest from Lizzo
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Twitter: @mistervonvegas, @spillmob, and @dantley
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more — Carl Pei's Nothing is just a week or two away from the full launch, and after showing off the camera earlier today, a new video shows off the Nothing Phone (2) in full.
Source: Marques Brownlee on YouTube. More: Android Police, Neowin, T3, HotHardware, Android Central, Techlusive, KnowTechie, MobileSyrup, TalkAndroid.com, Gizchina, Wccftech, The Verge, TechRadar, BGR, Notebookcheck.net, Sparrow News, GSMArena.com, and MySmartPrice
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Thierry Breton: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Samsung, and ByteDance said they meet the EU's “gatekeeper” criteria of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …
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| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Cameron Winklevoss makes a $1.465B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert does not agree — Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis propose a package $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated …
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