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Twitter employees say that removing support for legacy APIs is what broke TweetDeck, and the company will be moving users to the “new” version of TweetDeck (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitter employees say that removing support for legacy APIs is what broke TweetDeck, and the company will be moving users to the “new” version of TweetDeck  —  Twitter is going to force everyone who uses TweetDeck to switch over to the “new” version to help mitigate some of the issues

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Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before it went dark in Louisiana traffic fell ~80% there due to such a law (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before it went dark in Louisiana traffic fell ~80% there due to such a law  —  Pornhub is now blocking people in Mississippi and Virginia from visiting its website over laws that would require the service to

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The Chess Computer from 1912

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with computers playing chess. Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding

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Twitter offering no timeline for its “temporary” reading limits, with CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, could create a perfect opening for Meta to launch Threads (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: Twitter offering no timeline for its “temporary” reading limits, with CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, could create a perfect opening for Meta to launch Threads  —  It was a trying weekend for those who still believe Elon Musk has what it takes to turn Twitter into a success story.

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A look at Reliance’s JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A look at Reliance’s JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India  —  Asia’s richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group  —  India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani …

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Sweden’s privacy watchdog says “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” and issues $1M+ in fines to businesses, including telco Tele2, that used the service (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Sweden’s privacy watchdog says “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” and issues $1M+ in fines to businesses, including telco Tele2, that used the service  —  Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics …

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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)

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: 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”  —  Chairman of memory-chip maker YMTC calls on tool makers to ship parts the company ordered before it was blacklisted

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So where are we all supposed to go now?

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has

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3D Printing Food Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, July 5 at noon Pacific for the 3D Printing Food Hack Chat with Ellie Weinstein! In the right hands, food goes beyond mere sustenance and becomes a work of art. We’ve all seen examples — the carefully crafted blends of flavors, the quality ingredients expertly cooked, the artful platings that make

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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 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: 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 …

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