Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web UI, offering an early look at what to expect before its July 6 launch; the service appears to have 2,500+ users
Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Amanda Silberling: — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...
Source: Meta has not prepared Threads for a European launch outside the UK, which is not fully governed by GDPR and EU privacy rules
Just a couple of links about Meta's forthcoming entry … Music Ally : Irish regulator says Instagram Threads can't launch yet in EU Ciara O'Brien / The Irish Times : Threads takes on Twitter - what you...
A judge issues an injunction blocking key Biden admin officials from contacting social media companies, in a case brought by MO and LA AGs over vaccine posts
The Trump-appointed judge's move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have helped bad actors evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising
The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies. — Twitter has been even more of a mess …
Sources: Australia searched several Binance Australia locations as part of its derivatives investigation; CZ acknowledged that “external pressure” hurts Binance
Binance's offices in Australia were searched by the country's financial markets regulator as governments around …
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling
This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier Espinoza / Financial ...
For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking
Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …
Fairphone and Murena partner to launch the modular Fairphone 4 in the US for $599+, running the Google-free /e/ OS instead of Android OS, available unlocked
The storage of both models can be expanded via microSD, and the phone features a modular design that can be easily disassembled using …
The Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest and busiest port, plans to resume operations on July 6 after a July 4 ransomware attack; no group has claimed the hack yet
The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.
A likely fake 8-month-old Twitter account with a Blue check and 130K followers, suspended after WaPo informed Twitter, is a case study in political rage baiting
The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. says music with AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered for the award
Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.
Sources: Andy Jassy asked Amazon's Hollywood studio for detailed budgets to scrutinize ballooning costs; Amazon spent $7B on originals and other shows in 2022
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Neko Health, a startup founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Watty founder Hjalmar Nilsonne that makes an AI-based full-body scanner, raised €60M led by Lakestar
Neko Health, the medical diagnostics company co-founded by Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek …
Twitter quietly backtracks and lets logged out users see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk's “temporary emergency measure”; profiles are still not visible
The platform is becoming slightly more usable just as Meta opens up its Twitter competitor.
India targets December 2024 for the country's first domestically manufactured chips; Micron's new chip assembly and test facility breaks ground in August 2023
IT minister reveals ambitious timeline as part of push to expand tech manufacturing supply chain
Cameron Winklevoss makes a $1.465B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert does not agree
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South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022
A look at Spill, an invite-only Twitter alternative designed as a safe destination for LGBTQ and Black people that added 100K+ users over the past three days
What Are Spill and Threads? Sayou Cooper / The Daily Dot : ‘Catch me on Spill’: Black Twitter finds an alternative app Kyra Alessandrini / Blavity News & Politics : Black-Owned Social Media App ‘Spill...
OpenAI temporarily pulls its Browse with Bing beta feature from ChatGPT Plus after users found that requesting a URL's full text let them bypass some paywalls
Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central :
Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Source: Marques Brownlee on YouTube .
A look at Samsung's efforts to make AI chips; some skeptics question if the company can become indispensable in generative AI as in smartphones and high-res TVs
Chang Che / New York Times :
The UAE grants its first national license for self-driving vehicles to WeRide, letting the China-based company test Level 4 autonomous vehicles on public roads
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
How some farmers in Senegal, who struggle to read or write, use WhatsApp voice notes to collaborate with NGOs and researchers and learn new farming practices
Jack Thompson / Rest of World : Twitter: @lokimicap , @globalwa , @gquaggiotto , @jack__thompson , @followlori , and @jack__thompson Twitter: @lokimicap : I don't like how Meta collects and handles o...
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue down 13.8% YoY to $41.76B and June revenue down 19.7% YoY to $13.6B due to weak consumer demand, but forecasts a brighter Q3 outlook
Ben Blanchard / Reuters :
Some experts fear that SCOTUS' ruling against affirmative action in June 2023 could be a blow to tech companies' hiring practices and diversity commitments
Trisha Thadani / Washington Post :
The EU announces new rules to help privacy regulators work on cross-border cases faster and give companies more rights, after criticism of slow investigations
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social . Twitter: @c0up See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Rich Stroffolino / @mranthropology.bsky.soc...
A look at AI Dungeon and other games that let players create in-game content using generative AI, raising questions about authorship, ownership, and copyright
Will Bedingfield / Wired : Bluesky: @markloundy.bsky.social . Twitter: @wired Bluesky: Mark Loundy / @markloundy.bsky.social : In the US at least, there might be questions, but the answer is that AI-...
Lyon-based Dougs, an online accounting startup for SMBs that is profitable with ~€15M in ARR, raised €25M in its first VC round since being founded in 2014
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
NetEase's stock has rallied 85% since an October 2022 low, edging out rivals Tencent and Bilibili on the Hang Seng Tech Index after a slew of recent game hits
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg :
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