Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver's license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs
Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit …
Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer with 12M followers, signs a ~$100M deal with Kick, a streaming service backed by Australian gaming and gambling sites
The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign …
Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12
Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators Tweets: Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin : NEW: Reddit CEO slammed protest leaders in an interview, saying he plans to institute rule changes that would all...
Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”
Source: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tells investors no major ad holding firms are recommending an ad pause now and highlights a focus on video and partnerships
Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising …
Binance, Binance.US, and the SEC agree to ensure only Binance.US staff can access customer funds; the proposed agreement needs sign-off from a federal judge
The proposed agreement still needs judicial sign-off. — Binance, Binance.US and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
Genetic testing company 1health.io settles by paying $75K to the FTC for exposing sensitive health data, in the first FTC enforcement over genetic information
The case is the latest in a series of FTC enforcement actions focused on health data privacy and the first involving genetic information.
Crypto payments startup Wyre says it is winding down and that investors with assets on the company's platform can withdraw them through July 14
Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Wyre is winding down, feeling the pinch of dwindling interest in a market that was once hailed as the next frontier of finance.
FTC docs: Lina Khan did not recuse herself in the Meta/Within acquisition case, despite a top FTC ethics official's advice, which left it up to her to decide
The Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan declined to recuse herself from an FTC case against Meta Platforms Inc. …
Meta plans to lower the minimum age for Quest headsets from 13 to 10, with under-13s' profiles and avatars set to private by default; Horizon Worlds remains 13+
Alex Heath / The Verge :
Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won't release an app citing misuse risks
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget :
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @iporollo , @bw , @dina...
Alleged official renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 show the clamshell-style foldable could have a 3.4" outer display, up from its predecessors' 1.9" screen
here's why Corinne Reichert / CNET : Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 Could Lie Flat When Folded Austin Blake / iPhone in Canada Blog : Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Leaked Press Photo Reveals Major Updat...
NY AG's documents: Tether once counted Chinese companies' securities among its reserves; in July 2022, Tether claimed not to be holding Chinese commercial paper
Bloomberg :
BlackRock files a US SEC application to register a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian; the SEC has rejected all bitcoin spot ETFs to date
Analyst Calls It a ‘Real Deal’ Spot Bitcoin ETF Filing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission : iShares Bitcoin Trust The Daily Hodl : Billionaire Mike Novogratz Says BlackRock Filing for a Bitcoin E...
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Apple Vision Pro Vlad Savov / Bloomberg : Apple's Growth Vision Is Getting Hard for Some to See Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely : Apple's Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won't Tim Cook say that? D...
Filing: Tiger Global has so far raised just $2B+ for a fund targeting $6B after eight months; US venture firms raised nearly $12B in Q1 2023, down 73% YoY
Financial Times :
Sources and documents: the former Samsung executive accused of leaking sensitive tech to help advance China's chip sector had a renowned career in South Korea
Wall Street Journal :
Amazon does not plan to host re:MARS, its annual robotics and AI conference, in 2023, saying the decision is not because of budgetary reasons
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Chipmakers like TSMC and Samsung race to curb emissions as chip manufacturing makes up most of a device's carbon output, a tough job in fossil fuel-reliant Asia
Meanwhile sister companies with green energy knowhow look set to cash in — A greener future is not necessarily a lower-tech future.
Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI
The CEO considers artificial intelligence critical to long-term growth and is taking more control over efforts.
A profile of Jack Ma, the Chinese tech icon who disappeared from public view for three months after regulators questioned him over a November 2020 speech
Lavender Au / Wired :
Stack Overflow removed gender and race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men
guess what? — IT'S STILL THERE 😠 https://twitter.com/...
Report: ByteDance ordered ~$1B worth of Nvidia GPUs for 2023 so far, which amounts to ~100K units, including A100s ordered before US chip export controls
Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware : Forums: r/hardware , r/pcmasterrace , and r/artificial Forums: r/hardware : China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year r/pcmasterra...
Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms, particularly with AI
Defining risky artificial intelligence poses challenge as Washington moves to curb investment in Chinese tech Tweets: @davidmwessel , @bobdavis187 , and @jchengwsj Tweets: David Wessel / @davidmwessel...
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