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Adam Mosseri and current and former employees recount how Threads came to life with a small team focused on shipping a bare-bones app on a breakneck schedule — A company in crisis went back to basics to deliver a viral hit. But can Adam Mosseri's bare-bones Twitter clone reinvigorate an aging tech giant?
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, MarketWatch, Tubefilter, New York Post, Insider, and Coinspeaker
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A profile of Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, considered by lawmakers, CEOs, and activists as an essential guide for what's happening in tech — Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists.
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Twitter: @rob_sheridan, @film_girl, @triketora, @kashhill, @tomgara, @ruchowdh, @winter, @mathewi, @jess_miers, @zittrain, @daveleebbg, @katieharbath, and @thestalwart. LinkedIn: Mike Masnick
| New York Times: |
Sources: the Biden admin is looking for malware it believes China hid inside critical infrastructure, mainly aimed to disrupt the military if a conflict emerges — American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations …
More: New York Post. Twitter: @jonlemire, @elisabethbraw, @matthew_d_green, @farrellpatrickj, @jasoncolavito, @edwardstrngr, @ericgeller, @repmarymiller, @punk6529, and @kimzetter. LinkedIn: Robert Metzger
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| BBC: |
An investigation citing hundreds of Turkish people claims Android's earthquake warning system failed to send alerts for the 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6 — James Clayton and Ben Derico in San Francisco & Anna Foster in Turkey — Google's earthquake warning system failed …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Meta emails: Facebook removed content about COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made — Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus
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| Hiroyuki Akiyama / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan plans to add ~110K new trainees to acquire digital skills through fiscal 2024, as the government projects a 2.3M digital worker shortage by fiscal 2026 — Tokyo aims to add 110,000 new trainees in the field over next two years — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left … | Jessica Lucas / HuffPost: |
Despite TikTok prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, some creators say they're sponsored by alcohol brands, and they drink excessively to promote them — While the app has strict rules prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, creators are still allegedly making money drinking to excess — and at least one has died.
Twitter: @jesslucaswrites and @believekarolina
| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West's account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won't be eligible to monetize it, and ads won't appear next to his posts — West won't be eligible to monetize his account, and ads won't appear next to his posts — X, the social-media platform formerly known …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter/X officially rolls out its ads revenue sharing program for eligible users globally, after giving some creators payouts earlier this month — Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, is officially rolling out its ads revenue sharing program for creators.
More: Twitter Help Center, Cointelegraph, Mashable, TechSpot, Business Today, Livemint, Social Media Today, MobileSyrup, and TechCrunch
Twitter: @x, @lindayacc, @junlper, @nandoodles, @danwritehead, @hankgreen, and @elonmusk
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create — In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village …
Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social. Bluesky: @mmitchell.bsky.social. Twitter: @milagrosmiceli, @random_walker, @asyoulikeit78, @peteratmsr, @milagrosmiceli, @billyperrigo, @meenakandasamy, @milagrosmiceli, @milagrosmiceli, @nixxin, @random_walker, and @random_walker. LinkedIn: Deepak Seth
| Stephanie Hirschmiller / Decrypt: |
The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences” — The cultural institution plans to establish an interactive space within the Ethereum-based world, as well as offer up NFT collectibles.
More: The Sandbox, crypto.news, CryptoGlobe, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, nft now, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, and NFT Evening
| Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
The backup driver of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018 pleads guilty to endangerment, in the first automated vehicle fatality case — After five years of purgatory, Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment.
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