A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
Twitter users globally report multiple site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages
Twitter has been hit by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
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.
Bluesky says it is “temporarily” pausing new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic”
/ ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
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
The moderators of r/IAmA say they will no longer coordinate celebrity AMAs and Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for tasks done by volunteers
The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
Red Hat's new source code policy doesn't violate the GPL itself but makes it harder to verify the company's GPL compliance, angering the open-source community
A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks' worth of heated GPL argument. — When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting …
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to USB-C for the charging case
Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031
The light displays are quieter, safer and better for the environment. — Like many in the fireworks industry, Stephen Vitale is in the family business.
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let the book review site languish with limited resources while mining it for user-generated data
A prominent author's decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads's power in publishing … Mastodon: @freemancrouch@mastodon.social and @SDZ@mstdn.so...
Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices
Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
California regulators will decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 driverless cabs from Waymo and Cruise in SF, as city officials fume over a lack of control
a lack of control over its own destiny that DC residents know well. via @TrishaThadani https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @teamsters : Even more proof that “self-driving” cars from @Waymo and @Cruise...
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.
Fidelity, Invesco, VanEck, and WisdomTree refile for a spot bitcoin ETF with Coinbase as market surveillance provider, to answer the US SEC's objections
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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
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Valve says it won't approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming the company planned to completely ban AI art
Wes Davis / The Verge :
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 :
YouTube removes the channels of three North Korean influencers posting about their daily life, after South Korea labelled them as “psychological warfare” tools
Christian Davies / Financial Times :
TSA plans to expand its facial recognition program to ~430 US airports, says its algorithms are 97% effective “across demographics, including dark skin tones”
abolish the TSA — 100% effective [embedded post] Twitter: Tony Roberts / @phat_controller : If China's surveillance state is deeply problematic then by the same yardstick the rapid roll out of facia...
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mimsical@mastodon.social : What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It's Already Doing to Coders — Software is eating the software ind...
The FBI says it formed an online database in May to prevent swatting by facilitating coordination between police departments and law enforcement agencies
https://www.nbcnews.com/... Twitter: @nbc6 : Advances in technology allow callers to mask their voice, phone number or IP address (also called “spoofing"), or make their false 911 calls sound more cre...
Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter's content moderation approach, and more
Poynter : Twitter: @asegar See also Mediagazer Twitter: Adrian Segar / @asegar : Informative; worth reading #InsideTwitter https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
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
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Twitter: @ulonnaya and @eliotwb Twitter: Tage / @ulonnaya : Several high-flying Indian startups, including Byju's, Swiggy and PharmEasy, have experienced a dramatic downwa...
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