A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked out to Twitter … Blue...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case
Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to less than 400K units in 2024 due to manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset
Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts …
The moderators of r/IAmA say they won't solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers
The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
Report: Apple is working on new external display for Macs that can double as a smart home display in low-power mode, to release next year “at the earliest”
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TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load
Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers
China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications …
An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different
Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but may be more affordable than AWS and cloud alternatives
Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment — The boom in demand for high-end chips powering …
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world . Twitter: @matthew_d_green , @sat...
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers
The YouTube star of “Songs for Littles,” an online video series that pulls millions of views, says she's found her calling in encouraging children to speak. Twitter: @joepostingg , @larryferlazzo , @s...
India's Jio Platforms unveils a $12 4G phone with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming, alongside a new $1.5/month 14GB data plan
Reliance's digital arm, Jio Platforms, has unveiled a new mobile handset and associated tariff plans, the latest in a series …
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, including “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the plans with ad executives at Cannes
US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue
For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement. LinkedIn: Yael Berger . Forums: Beehaw LinkedIn: Yael Berge...
A look at MoMA's “Never Alone” exhibit, featuring a collection of 35 video games, making MoMA one of very few art museums to have a permanent games collection
or at least a modest gallery next to the lobby at MOMA,” @jcljules writes. A free show called “Never Alone” features the museum's 35 games. https://nyer.cm/OjlABVg @pippinbarr : I am quoted in this ve...
Red Hat's new source code policy doesn't violate the GPL itself but makes verifying the company's GPL compliance harder, angering the open-source community
Valve won't publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will not allow any AI-generated content
California regulators plan to decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 Waymo and Cruise driverless cabs in San Francisco; city officials fume over having no say
Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research projects the global drone light show market to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031
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Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies on selling the Quest in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's China comments may cause issues
Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta's Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg's past criticisms of China Twitter: @jchengwsj and @newley Twitter: J...
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant, which set off polarizing debates on free speech and risks
setting off a polarizing free-speech debate. https://www.nytimes.com/...
At a Shanghai event, Chinese chipmakers and suppliers were grim but defiant about US plans to widen export controls; YMTC urged suppliers to show “integrity”
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal :
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing expansion and concerns over an uneven playing field; BookScan says 100+ large BookTok authors had $760M in 2022 sales
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