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| 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 …
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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
| 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 …
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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: Fortune, Euractiv, and Pixel Envy
| 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
Bluesky: @owillis.bsky.social. Mastodon: @alex@cybervillains.com and @drewharwell@mastodon.social
Twitter: @washingtonpost, @pkafka, @juwanthewriter, @martinsfp, @jessehawken, and @lincolnwatchman
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| 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
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| 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.
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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 …
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| 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
| John Reed / Financial Times: |
India targets December 2024 for the country's first domestically manufactured chips, as Micron's new chip assembly and test facility breaks ground in August — IT minister reveals ambitious timeline as part of push to expand tech manufacturing supply chain| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
NetEase's stock has rallied 85% since an October 2022 low, edging out rivals Tencent and Bilibili on the Hang Seng Tech Index after a slew of recent game hits — A slew of recent blockbuster video game hits by NetEase Inc. is giving bulls renewed optimism that the firm's 85% rally since an October low has more room to run.| 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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| 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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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @counternotions@mastodon …, and @paul@tapbots.social
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
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