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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 (New York Times)

New York Times: 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  —  As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: 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

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Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, including “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the plans with ad executives at Cannes (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: 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 …

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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 (New York Times)

New York Times: 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.

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China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers (Alfred Cang/Bloomberg)

Alfred Cang / Bloomberg: 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 used to make semiconductors and other electronics, a move that’s likely …

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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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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.

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: 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 …

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