Tech Meme

The Verge: Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”  —  Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: Meta unveils Voicebox generative text-to-speech model that could do to spoken word what ChatGPT did for text, but won’t release an app citing misuse risks  —  But the company won’t be sharing the app or its source code for the time being.  —  Today, we are one step closer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta’s Quest, aren’t good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability  —  The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years.  We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair of glasses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: France probes Binance for illegally providing digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance quits Netherlands after failing to get a license  —  Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Meta shifts to a country-by-country approach for its COVID-19 misinfo rules, ending them in countries like the US where COVID is no longer a national emergency  —  Happy Friday!  A quick programming note: The newsletter will be off Monday for Juneteenth.  In the meantime, send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is regulatory clarity on offering coins compliantly  —  Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit’s rules may let the platform remove protesting moderators  —  “We are not shutting down discussions or unilaterally reopening communities,” reads a line from a … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: In a cease-and-desist order, Texas’ securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent for months and accuses the company of securities fraud  —  State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars’ worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dana Priest / Washington Post: Hanan Elatr, the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company’s Pegasus tool to track them both  —  In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO’s Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband’s whereabouts before he was murdered Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: Reddit says 80% of its top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 5K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12  —  Reddit Inc. said that most of the company’s communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands … Lees verder op Tech Meme