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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users — Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, is drawing users at an astounding pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours …
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Threads: @monkbent, @benedictevans, @travelwithnishit, and @gracetutty
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Beehaw, and MacRumors Forums
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours — Update July 6, 11:45 AM IST: Zuckerberg noted that Threads crossed the milestone of 10 million signups within seven hours of launch.
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Bluesky: @kyleorl.bsky.social. Twitter: @sbkcrn, @buccocapital, @oalexanderdk, @newley, and @nikitabier
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, @semafor, @buccocapital, @zuck, @conno_r, @tb_99999, @mancity, and @tb_99999. Forums: r/inthenews
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts — - Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. — People will be able to use their Instagram usernames …
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Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @aoc, @kayvonmusic, @mosseri, @zuck, @zuck, @thisisbillgates, @mosseri, @itselavia, @jeremysliew, @fazeclan, @davidmarcus, @instagram, @carnage4life, @caseyrain, @zuck, @carnage4life, @absolutelyashika, @mosseri, @taylorlorenz, @yung_pueblo, @naomigleit, @davecamarillo, @milliegooch, @zuck, @japanoninsta, @mosseri, @0xjessel, @alokvmenon, @mosseri, @whatsapp, @taylorlorenz, @zuck, @h1brd, @gerekmeinhardt, @carnage4life, @mosseri, @zuck, @tobi, @eorlins, @mikedavismma, and @crumbler
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Hands-on with Threads: fairly bare-bones text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, no edit button, search is only for user handles, and more — Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
More: New York Times, The Verge, Insider, NPR, Slate, The Guardian, Reuters, and Social Media Today
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Threads: @mkbhd, @mosseri, @mosseri, @katienotopoulos, @ellendegeneres, @shakira, @zuck, @sterling7, @earthpix, @addisonraee, @marvel, @zuck, @mercedesamgf1, @kareem, @0xjessel, @zacefron, @hotones, @buccocapital, @pompglobal, @mrbeast, @grantcardone, @krisjenner, @thedeanlife, @om, @karenxcheng, @freddiemade, @fakiebigfoot, @carnage4life, @meganq, @meals_by_cug, @wrightyofficial, @jasonrashaad, @om, @dens, @airapparentmusic, @lilyallen, @minhsmind, @epicfunnypage, @bravobybetches, @steven, @mrshangkong, @realadamrose, @lexfridman, @carnage4life, @wesleylowery, @hautelemode, @michellekhare, @ayocaesar, @ksi, @sokane1, @jessechuku, @mosseri, @adamw, @channel4, @jlo, @carnage4life, @aliterative, @rollingstone, @krys, @gallucks, and @coreytutt. Forums: Hacker News
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, alleging Meta has “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” — Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant …
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| Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: |
Mastodon's CEO says Meta launching Instagram's Threads, which intends to adopt ActivityPub, “is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come” — Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy about this launch …
More: Open Rights Group, SlashGear, Fortune, T3, TechCrunch, and The Economic Times
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Threads: @noahkalina, @hayatohuseman, and @youvegotnomale
Forums: r/technology and r/Mastodon
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on how Threads started, why a new app is a “risky endeavor”, creating a standalone app off of Instagram, ActivityPub, Elon Musk, and more — The ‘volatility’ of Twitter under Elon Musk has given Instagram an opening to compete.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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Threads: @charmrummy, @katienotopoulos, @alexrkonrad, @sandofsky, @jkottke, @iamginodacampo, @alisonwonderland, @biminibabes, @jw, @timbradshaw, @moxiemarlinspike, and @asilvr
| New York Times: |
How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions, like being an FTX “ambassador”, collided with reality, part of the humiliating reckoning facing crypto embracing celebrities — The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, Insider, The Block, CoinDesk, Gizmodo, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crypto Briefing, and Fortune
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| Emily M. Bender: |
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about rogue AI and those illuminating harms is ahistorical and obscures research, journalism, and activism — In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot …
Bluesky: @abeba.bsky.social and @mmitchell.bsky.social. Mastodon: @timnitGebru@dair …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru. Twitter: @oneunderscore__, @basedbeffjezos, @cfiesler, @timnitgebru, and @counternotions
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean plans to acquire NYC-based Paperspace, which offers cloud computing for AI models, for $111M in cash; Paperspace had raised $35M from YC and others — DigitalOcean, the cloud hosting business, today announced that it's agreed to acquire Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing …
More: DigitalOcean, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, Bloomberg Law, Seeking Alpha, and Paperspace Blog
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: CFTC investigators concluded that bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network misled investors and that its former CEO, Alex Mashinsky, also broke US rules — Investigators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have concluded that bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Google delays releasing its first fully custom Pixel chip by at least a year; instead of codename Redondo's 2024 debut, codename Laguna is set for 2025 — Google has big ambitions to develop its own chips for its Pixel phones. So far, however, things haven't gone according to plan.
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, GfxSpeak, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, Techlusive, and Wccftech
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
A look at London-based VC firm Balderton's new wellbeing program for founders, seeking to tackle the stress and burnout inherent to building a tech startup — VC firm Balderton will launch wellness packages as stress takes toll on entrepreneurs — When Etsy paid $1.6bn to buy Depop in 2021 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky raised an $8M seed led by Neo and partners with Namecheap to let its users directly purchase and manage custom domains, Bluesky's first paid service — Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service.| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: US VCs invested $39.8B in Q2 2023, down nearly 50% YoY, across 3,011 deals, down ~33% YoY, with the number of angel or seed deals falling ~50% YoY — Venture capitalists are funding fewer startups, especially at the earliest stages of a company's life, according to new data from research firm PitchBook.| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
A look at a “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act amendment, which would forbid US government agencies from buying citizens' search histories and more — An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would forbid government entities from buying Americans' search histories, location data, and more.
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Mastercard says nine big UK banks, including Lloyds and NatWest, signed up to use its AI-based Consumer Fraud Risk system, trained on years of transaction data — Mastercard Inc. is selling a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps banks more effectively spot if their customers are trying to send money to fraudsters.Sponsor Posts
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