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Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5 — Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges — Meta's Threads is losing ground …
More: The Atlantic, Mashable, The Verge, Social Media Today, New York Times, HotAir, and Fast Company
Threads: @jaypeters.11 and @michaelzanette
Bluesky: @malmer.com, @warnerdavid.bsky.social, @lekevicius.com, @carnage4life.bsky.social, @jamesshelley.com, @diwanow.com, @kevin-indig.bsky.social, @metasynthesis.net, @crowslabyrinth.com, @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social, @emilprotalinski.bsky.social, @mikebeas.com, @keithedwards.bsky.social, @adrianweckler.bsky.social, @chickenpuppet.bsky.social, @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, and @chadbourn.bsky.social
| Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms: |
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit” — Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
More: Werd I/O and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Forums: r/solarpunk, r/Mastodon, and lobste.rs
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Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration — Popular video app and Chinese parent ByteDance view rival social-media owner as conduit to the president-elect
More: Fortune, Times of India, Fox Business, The Indian Express, Reuters, Washington Examiner, and The Information
X: @ibd_ecarson, @michaelsobolik, and @jchengwsj
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Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies — Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security …
More: GeekWire, Benzinga, Breaking Defense, The Gateway Pundit, DataBreachToday.com, PCMag, Daily Caller News Foundation, and The Japan Times
Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im. Bluesky: @frank11285.bsky.social, @ericliptonnyt.bsky.social, and @gavinsblog.bsky.social. X: @matthewstoller
LinkedIn: Travis Moran and Massimo Donna
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Threads: @yonetteajoseph. Mastodon: @Stegosaur@defcon.social. Bluesky: @anarcish.bsky.social, @wichmann.bsky.social, @mshelton.bsky.social, @vermij.org, and @matthewkupfer.bsky.social
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LinkedIn: Shannon Brandao, Nick Andersen, Richard Staynings, and Michael Shoebridge
Forums: r/espionage, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/uspolitics, r/somethingiswrong2024, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Customers of banking startups like Yotta describe losing savings ranging from $7,000 to $200,000+ due to Synapse's collapse, after US regulators refused to help — For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.
More: The Information and The Verge
X: @unacceptableone, @captainsmash, @mikeinohio, @davidb75478, @aprilmac, @chuckbell, @real_gadfly, @amir, and @hugh_son
Forums: Hacker News, r/QuebecFinance, r/FluentInFinance, r/economy, r/Wealthsimple, r/CryptoCurrency, r/yotta, r/finance, and r/news
| Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept: |
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft — The Intercept's lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline.| Reuters: |
Huawei is targeting 100,000 applications for HarmonyOS over the next 6-12 months and currently has over 15,000 applications that can meet consumers' basic needs — China's Huawei, blacklisted by the U.S., said on Saturday it is targeting 100,000 applications for its Harmony operating system …
More: Huawei Central and Tech in Asia
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads — The Silicon Valley dream is to build a tech startup that is such a unique idea it alters the commercial universe and turns its founders into billionaires.| Reuters: |
Utilities, regulators, and researchers in six countries say the power demand surge caused by AI and data centers is being met in the near-term by fossil fuels — A spike in electricity demand from the world's big data providers is raising a worrying possibility for the world's climate: a near-term surge in fossil-fuel use.
More: Wired
| Nicola M. White / Bloomberg: |
Around 56% of the $8.2B in financial remedies that the US SEC obtained in FY 2024 is attributable to a monetary judgment against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon — The agency's enforcement actions led to $8.2 billion in penalties and reimbursement to investors, though the number … | James Allen / Financial Times: |
How AI is reshaping the data-intensive field of Grand Prix racing, including helping design cars, setting F1's technical regulations, and shaping race strategy — The world's most technically advanced sport is so data-intensive that humans can no longer manage alone
More: SlashGear, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT's scalability — The bank is evaluating its next steps after seeing early productivity gains from OpenAI's enterprise tool| Sam McKeith / Reuters: |
Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online — Australia's government said on Sunday it had dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.
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