Tech Meme

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: 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  —  To their dismay, local officials have no control over whatever the state decides  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon here … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: 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) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Baio / Waxy.org: 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: 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.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Poynter: 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  —  Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6K posts/day, unverified 600, and new unverified 300, 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk says verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6000 posts/day, unverified to 600, and new unverified to 300, to address “extreme” data scraping  —  To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day Lees verder op Tech Meme