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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.
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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 …
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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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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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| 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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