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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025 — A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye. — Now, the rival to Elon Musk's X has reached …
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Threads: @zuck, @carnage4life, @alexheath, @mattnavarra, @technicallymims, @documentingmeta, and @benedictevans. Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec …
X: @danawollman, @metanewsroom, and @willoremus
Forums: r/technology and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more — Programming note: With this post, we now go on a short summer break. See you back here July 15. — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world.
More: Engadget, Thurrott, and One Man & His Blog
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Twilio says threat actors identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy; last week, hackers claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio — Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
More: Twilio, Engadget, BleepingComputer, Cointelegraph, and Seeking Alpha
| Financial Times: |
Sources: later in July, the EU will suggest scrapping the €150 threshold below which goods are exempt from customs duties, targeting Temu, AliExpress, and Shein — European Commission plans to scrap €150 threshold below which goods are exempt from customs duties
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text — Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
UK-listed Keywords Studios, which provides game development, audio, and art services to Epic and others, agrees to private equity firm EQT's ~£2.1B takeover bid — - Investors get £24.50 per share in cash in private equity deal — Keywords works for titles including Fortnite, Call of Duty
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs announced in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on its Astro home robot — Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family. — Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it plans … | Rocky Swift / Reuters: |
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use — Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone …
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Information management company OpenText plans to cut about 1,200 jobs, or ~1.7% of its workforce, and expects to reduce its annual expenses by CA$150M in 2025 — OpenText Corp (OTEX.TO) said on Wednesday it would cut about 1,200 jobs, around 1.7% of its workforce, as part of its new business optimization plan.
More: BetaKit, CRN, OpenText Blogs, MarketWatch, Canadian Press, and financialpost. X: @markbarrenechea
| Emma Farge / Reuters: |
WIPO: between 2014 and 2023, 54K generative AI patents were filed, 25% of which were filed in 2023; China leads with 38K+ patents, followed by the US with 6,276 — China is far ahead of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Proton launches Docs in Proton Drive, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs, after acquiring secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April 2024 — Proton, the Swiss-based pro-privacy productivity app maker, has a new feather in its cap after bringing document creation …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: US startups raised $56B in Q2 2024, up 57% YoY and the highest three-month haul in two years; AI startups raised $27.1B, or nearly half of the total — Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and licenses some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's — The company no longer has a place for all of its moonshot startups — Alphabet Inc. is licensing some technology …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, now expects to raise ~$100M at a $1.5B valuation after reported talks to raise $600M at $2B+ — One month ago, we broke the news that Harvey, a startup that sells AI-powered legal software, was looking to raise $600 million … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Koo, an Indian rival to X that had raised $60M+ from Tiger Global, Accel, and others, shuts down after last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed — The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk's X, is ceasing operations … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Telegram rolls out the ability for creators to share paid content to channels using its Stars digital currency and for channels to convert Stars to Toncoin — Telegram launched a digital currency called Stars for in-app use last month. Now, the company is expanding its use cases to paid content.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at enterprise browser startups like Island and Here, which aim to provide built-in browser security controls and better app integrations needed for work — Commercial web browsers weren't built for business. New enterprise browsers aim to provide the security controls and user experience needed for work.
LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette and Mazy Dar
| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
Datos: 58.5% of Google searches in the US and 59.7% in the EU result in no clicks; for 1,000 searches, 360 clicks go to the open web in the US and 374 in the EU — Over the past decade, I've done several reports with multiple clickstream panels analyzing Google search behavior at scale.
More: Cybernews.com, Stack Diary, Near Media, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Roundtable, and CNET
X: @pedrodias, @randfish, @gfiorelli1, and @brodieseo
| Cynthia Brumfield / CSO: |
SCOTUS' Chevron ruling could weaken US federal cybersecurity regulations, as FCC data breach reporting requirements and other rules are likely to be challenged — The ruling could weaken almost all US federal cybersecurity regulations, including SEC incident reporting, FCC data breach reporting … Sponsor Posts
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