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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
A comparison of users' personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from Apple's App Store — Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
More: Polygon, The Windows Club, The i Paper, BetaNews, International Business Times, Rolling Stone, The Eclectic Light Company, MarketWatch, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Near Media, Vox, Techaeris, Washington Post, SlashGear, CoinDesk, and O'Grady's PowerPage
LinkedIn: David W. Sime and Neil Thacker
Mastodon: @McCullohMD@disabled.social, @austinkocher@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, and @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon …
Twitter: @follylollysews, @stellabelle, @ackocher, @crickettgrrrl, and @madoldmoai
Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality — NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
More: The Guardian. Bluesky: @serrurier.bsky.social. Mastodon: @joeyh@octodon.social and @jpholbrook@mastodon.online
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions — A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
Mastodon: @falschgold@mastodon.social and @ppatel@mstdn.social
Twitter: @noahpinion, @jeremylittau, @pt, @natesilver538, @aghamilton29, and @washingtonpost
Forums: r/Foodforthought, r/Twitter, and Beehaw
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic — Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams — Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … | Financial Times: |
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022 — UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud
More: Cryptopolitan. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @pickardje, @marietjeschaake, @moonalice, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @atharproject, @pauljmonaghan, and @grantfeller
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again — Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
More: robertodoering / harpy on GitHub, Neowin, and Engadget
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. Twitter: @mpoppel, @cocolitron, and @tomwarren. Forums: Beehaw
| Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns — When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming … | Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives — Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’
LinkedIn: Patrick Warren. Mastodon: @intelwire@mastodon.social. Twitter: @attorneynora and @justinhendrix
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales — Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
More: Responsible Statecraft. Mastodon: @avandeursen@fediscience.org. Twitter: @ali_wyne, @nytimes, @sushantsin, and @mparekh. Forums: r/Sino
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Gemini sues DCG and its founder; Cameron Winklevoss accuses Barry Silbert of being “the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors” — - Crypto exchange Gemini sued Digital Currency Group and its founder on Friday, accusing Barry Silbert of being …
More: The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, Reuters, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Financial Times, The Daily Hodl, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin News, Watcher Guru, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, crypto.news, Blockworks, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, and CoinGape
Twitter: @cameron, @dcgco, @tyler, @pierre_crypt0, @newsasset, @adamscochran, @coinbureau, @poordart, @smtuffy, and @aaronrday. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Turner Novak / The Split: |
Meta's Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn't matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more — The Empire strikes back. Can Meta's new app live up to the early hype? — Hi everyone 👋 Turner back again with The Split.
More: Insider, Forbes, Slate, Crain's New York Business, Rob Pegoraro, Ad Age, Observer, and Los Angeles Times
Twitter: @sarthakgh, @semil, @joshelman, and @bobbyfijan
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
More: CNN, Insider, Bloomberg, New York Times, RTÉ, MarketWatch, Reuters, The Hill, CNN, Cryptopolitan, New York Post, The Guardian, The New Consumer, Trak.in, TweakTown, Livemint, Forbes, Howie Town, Financial Times, The Gateway Pundit, Fortune, The Drum, Deadline, NBC News, KitGuru, and Silicon Valley Business …
Twitter: @ashleymayer, @wsjtech, and @seth1620
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Android Police, Garbage Day, Deadline, Livemint, Techlusive, MarketWatch, Yahoo Style, CNBC, The Hill, Thurrott, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, PCMag, Gizmodo, Forbes, SlashGear, and GSMArena.com
Twitter: @josephpolitano, @kausmickey, @saksithcna, @ggreenwald, @rafat, @asteris, @adamsinger, @danprimack, @davidclinchnews, @om, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @selviano, @maxasteele, @loudmouthjulia, @parismarx, @jeffveillette, @tomwarren, and @martinsfp
Threads: @mosseri, @martinsfp, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.| Masha Borak / The Verge: |
How Telegram became a key channel for news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but its hands-off moderation turned the messaging app into a misinformation tool — The messaging app has become a key channel for news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the government's relationship with it is complicated.
Twitter: @rybar_force
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