Bloomberg: Sources: CFTC investigators concluded that bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network misled investors and that its former CEO Alex Mashinsky also broke US rules — Investigators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have concluded that bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Fortune: Twitter subsidiary Twitter Payments secured its first US money transmitter licenses over the last week from Michigan, Missouri, and New Hampshire — Elon Musk, billionaire and owner of Twitter — Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October, the company has been quietly working … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.net: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads passed 2M sign ups in the first two hours of availability — Threads just passed 2 million sign ups in the first two hours. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify no longer lets subscribers still paying via the App Store use it as a payment method; new subscribers were barred from using Apple’s service in May 2016 — Spotify hasn’t let new Premium subscribers pay for service using in-app purchases via Apple’s App Store since May 2016 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 26 at 7am ET in Seoul, where the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, Watch 6, and new tablets are expected — Samsung has announced it’s hosting its next Unpacked on July 26th at 7AM ET — bright and early for the east coast … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky raised an $8M seed led by Neo and partners with Namecheap to offer easy custom domain purchasing and management, Bluesky’s first paid service — Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Adam Mosseri on how Threads started, why it is a “risky endeavor”, creating a standalone app off of Instagram, ActivityPub integration, and more — The ‘volatility’ of Twitter under Elon Musk has given Instagram an opening to compete with its new app Threads. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Casey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram handle, no hashtags, can’t search for anything other than user handles, more — Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta launches Instagram’s Threads, now available on the App Store and Google Play in over 100 countries — – Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. — People will be able to use their Instagram usernames on Threads and follow the same accounts on Threads as they do on Meta’s photo-sharing app. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: A US Navy red team member releases TeamsPhisher, which leverages an unfixed Microsoft Teams bug to send malware from an account outside a targeted organization — A member of U.S. Navy’s red team has published a tool called TeamsPhisher that leverages an unresolved security issue … Lees verder op Tech Meme