Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
https://www.theverge.com/... @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social : You can no longer view tweets if you're not logged in to twitter. — You can't even view someone's twitter profile, not even if it's public....
Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company first hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022
- Apple's market cap topped $3 trillion on Friday, passing the $190.73 share price required to hit the milestone, according to CNBC's most recent share count.
Major third-party Reddit apps Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader shut down, as Reddit prepares to enforce its new API rate limits “shortly”
After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps.
Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks to have American Express take over its Apple ventures, including Apple Card, Apple's “buy now, pay later” offering, and more
American Express in talks to take over Goldman's card deal, other ventures with tech giant
Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred” orgs were “scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively”
Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.
The FBI says it formed an online database in May to prevent swatting by facilitating coordination between police departments and law enforcement agencies
Advances in technology allow callers to mask their voices, phone numbers or IP addresses (also called “spoofing") or make their false 911 calls sound more credible.
Nasdaq gained 32% in H1 2023, its best first half since 1983's 37% rise; Nvidia is up 195%+, Meta is up 130%+, Apple and Amazon are up 50%+, Alphabet is up 34%+
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Twitter users globally report multiple site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages
Twitter is yet to acknowledge the outage. — x — 1x 1.5x 1.8x — Twitter has been hit by a global outage …
Fidelity, Invesco, VanEck, and WisdomTree refile for a spot bitcoin ETF with Coinbase as market surveillance provider, to answer the US SEC's objections
In a flurry of Friday afternoon activity, Fidelity Investments, Invesco, VanEck and WisdomTree filed a fresh set of applications …
YouTube removes the channels of three North Korean influencers posting about their daily life, after South Korea labelled them as “psychological warfare” tools
Seoul says young influencers promoting Harry Potter and water parks are ‘psychological’ propaganda
Hackers claim responsibility for attacking Russian satellite internet service Dozor-Teleport; the IODA project says the network went down at 10pm EST on June 28
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record :
The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Twitter: Jess Miers / @jess_miers : ICYMI: The FTC is cracking down on fake reviews, teeing up yet another #Section230 conflict. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ......
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium
3 videos and you're out Digital Trends : YouTube tries new way of tackling ad blockers Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Enshitification is the process by which platforms take back the ...
A summary of the final day and closing arguments in the FTC v. Microsoft hearing; the FTC focused most of its case on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity
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Sources: Spotify is talking to its partners about adding full-length music videos, as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its service
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg :
Tracxn: Indian startups raised $5.46B in H1 2023, down from $17.1B in H1 2022 and $13.4B in H1 2021; Tiger Global made just one deal while SoftBank made none
Several high-flying Indian startups, including Byju's, Swiggy and PharmEasy, have experienced a dramatic downward adjustment in their valuations
The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety
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Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. Mastodon: @flargh@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social...
Kazakhstan arrests ex-Group-IB executive Nikita Kislitsin for his alleged role in the 2012 LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks; US and Russia issue extradition requests
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
TSA plans to expand its facial recognition program to ~430 US airports, says its algorithms are 97% effective “across demographics, including dark skin tones”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to expand its controversial facial recognition program … Bluesky: @babadookspinoza.bsky.social , @ohkafuimykafui.bsky.social , @natehousle...
A US bankruptcy judge rules that Celsius “may sell or convert any non-BTC and non-ETH” crypto tokens or assets to Bitcoin or Ethereum starting on July 1, 2023
The UK CMA worries Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition “could stifle innovation and lead to higher costs” and gives Adobe five days for proposals to address concerns
There is no “could”. This is an obvious Monopoly move and it *will* stifle innovation. — https://www.reuters.com/... Twitter: @cmagovuk : We have concerns that #Adobe's potential purchase of #Figma...
VMware partners with Samsung, AMD, and the RISC-V Keystone community to accelerate the adoption of confidential computing, which encrypts data as it's processed
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
In a rare rebuke, Japan told Fujitsu to take corrective measures after a 2022 hack of its cloud service affected at least 1.7K companies and government agencies
Data leaks affected at least 1,700 companies and government agencies — Fujitsu's cloud services are used by companies and the government … Bluesky: @serghei.bsky.social . Twitter: @nikkeiasia Bluesk...
Canada may think Bill C-18 still has more room for negotiation, based on Meta's 2021 deal with Australia, but tech platforms no longer view news as valuable
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart
Some developers paying for Twitter's API, including the $42K/month Enterprise tier, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and poor or no customer support
Sources: TikTok is offering free listings, shipping, zero commissions, and warehousing to Chinese merchants, ahead of debuting its online marketplace in the US
Unit21, a no-code and customizable data monitoring service, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium for identifying fraud
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