Reuters: Sources and a doc: India told streaming services like Netflix and Disney to use an independent panel to review content for obscenity and violence before release — – India has been strictly regulating streaming platforms — Wants expert panel for age ratings, content review Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hayden Field / CNBC: Sensor Tower: on July 11 and 12, Instagram’s Threads DAUs were down ~20% from July 8 and the time spent by the user on the app fell 50% to 10 minutes — – Facebook’s Twitter-killer, Threads, has seen drops in daily active users and time spent on app since the weekend, according to SensorTower and SimilarWeb. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter plans to reduce DM spam with a setting that moves messages from verified users you don’t follow back to the Message Request inbox instead of main inbox — As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Oslo-based online game-based learning service Kahoot plans to go private in an all-cash PE deal, led by Goldman Sachs, valuing the company at $1.7B — Big moves ahead for Kahoot, the Oslo startup that’s built a popular platform for users to create, share and play education-focused “games” … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta unveils CM3leon, a transformer model for image generation requiring 5x less compute and a smaller training data set than past transformer-based models — Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta says it has taken “further measures” to prevent EU-based users from accessing Instagram’s Threads, including blocking access through VPNs — After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Instagram’s Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed that it is blocking such efforts. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Taylan Bilgic / Bloomberg: Turkey’s top court upholds a law restricting companies’ ad spend and customer data use if their sales exceed given limits, in a blow to Alibaba’s unit Trendyol — Turkey’s top court upheld a law tightening regulation on e-commerce companies in a blow to Trendyol, the market-leading local unit … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tim Copeland / The Block: Multichain ceases operations after the crypto bridging protocol’s CEO Zhaojun and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets, were detained by Chinese police — – Multichain confirmed its CEO has been detained in China. — It said the CEO’s sister moved $220 million of funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Sources and a document: India told Netflix, Disney, and other streaming services to consider an independent panel to review content ahead of its release — – India has been strictly regulating streaming platforms — Wants expert panel for age ratings, content review Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: After China’s curbs, the EU calls on aluminum and zinc companies to investigate producing key chip metals; the EU sources 71% of its gallium from China — Aluminium and zinc companies approached about making gallium and germanium critical to semiconductors Lees verder op Tech Meme