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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Instagram's Threads launch countdown jumps forward and now indicates a July 5 launch at 7PM ET; the countdown previously suggested a July 6 launch at 10AM ET — Instagram's Twitter competitor, Threads, may launch a few hours earlier than we expected now that the countdown on threads.net …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web interface, offering an early look at what to expect at launch on July 6; the service appears to have 2,500+ users — Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk's “temporary emergency measure”; profiles remain blocked — The platform is becoming slightly more usable just as Meta opens up its Twitter competitor.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date — OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Jassy asked Amazon's Hollywood studio for detailed budgets to scrutinize ballooning costs; Amazon spent $7B on originals, sports, and more in 2022 — I am off this week; that means no newsletter Sunday. — (Tips are still welcome at lshaw31@bloomberg.net or on Signal.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Australia searched several local Binance offices as part of its derivatives investigation; CZ acknowledged that “external pressure” has hurt Binance — Binance's offices in Australia were searched by the country's financial markets regulator as governments around …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Fairphone and Murena partner to launch the user-repairable, modular Fairphone 4 in the US for $599+, unlocked and running the Google-free /e/ OS, not Android — The storage of both models can be expanded via microSD, and the phone features a modular design that can be easily disassembled using …
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Gfycat, a Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, plans to shut down on September 1, 2023; the site was down for five days in May due to an expired SSL certificate — Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff. — The internet continues to get a bit more fragmented and less accessible every week.
More: gHacks Technology News, TechCrunch, The Verge, and The Register
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest and busiest port, plans to resume operations by July 6 after a July 4 ransomware attack; no group has claimed responsibility — The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A US Navy red team member releases TeamsPhisher, which leverages an unfixed Microsoft Teams bug to send malware from an account outside a targeted organization — A member of U.S. Navy's red team has published a tool called TeamsPhisher that leverages an unresolved security issue … | Will Bedingfield / Wired: |
A look at AI Dungeon and other games that let players use generative AI to create in-game content, raising questions about authorship, ownership, and copyright — Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT iOS app downloads and Bing app downloads in the US were down 38% MoM in June 2023; Bank of America: visits to ChatGPT were down ~11% MoM — - AI may be the hottest thing in the technology industry, but OpenAI's ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google's grip … | Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: |
Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud plans to step down at the end of August 2023 “to pursue a new opportunity”; board member Adam Gross will become interim CEO on September 1 — Vimeo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Anjali Sud will step down from her position at the business video software company at the end of August.| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. says that music containing AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered — Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.
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