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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

The Guardian - UK

Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal

Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

The Guardian - US

TechScape: Why big tech could learn big lessons from the Post Office Horizon scandal

In this week’s newsletter: To see where an IT flaw became a crisis, you have to look past the technology altogether. Plus, Substack’s biggest names jump ship

The Guardian - UK

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Leading tech journalist quits Substack over platform’s Nazi newsletters

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist content

The Guardian - US

Empire AI

Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...

Reason

TechScape: Is the Consumer Electronics Show still relevant?

The world’s largest tech event has cutting-edge TVs and even a VW with ChatGPT – but cheap gadgets and big tech have dented its influence. Plus, HMRC comes for side hustlers

The Guardian - UK

Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned

The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site

The Guardian - UK

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Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Newsletter writers with thousands of subscribers threaten to leave platform, which says banning extremists makes things worse

The Guardian - UK

Substackers Battle Over Banning Nazis

Some Substack writers are pressuring the platform to change its moderation policies. Others are urging Substack not to listen.

Reason

Killing Eve ended with Villanelle’s death. This is why I’m bringing her back to life

When my transgressive heroine came to a sticky end on screen, many Killing Eve fans felt cheated. Now they can pick up her story again – this time for free

The Guardian - UK

Irish Prison for Edgelords and Hotheads?

Plus: Repealing tobacco bans, UN pointlessness, Substack's "Nazi problem," and more…

Reason

Pat Kane: Matheson shows how technology should be enhancing not frazzling

THERE’S a human, all-too-human element to the Michael Matheson Apple iPad scandal...

The National (Scotland)

What is a decel? The term that encapsulates the dueling ideologies in AI

Influential tech investors and online crackpots alike are convinced there's a battle being waged between AI doomsayers and futurists

Evening Standard

Dominic Cummings gloats about HS2 cancellation and settles old scores

Boris Johnson's former adviser has also drawn up a list of enemies

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The Canceling of the American Mind, by FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

I just read and much enjoyed this new book, and highly recommend it: It's readable, factually detailed, and thoughtful in its analysis and recommendations. For a taste of the argument, see this Substack post. And here are a few of the jacket blurbs from others: This riveting book presents compelling…

The Guardian - US

‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender

The Guardian - UK

Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

The Guardian - UK

From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters

The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme

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The Guardian - UK

‘It’s equal parts exciting and terrifying’: how authors are being influenced by their fans

In the internet age, writers have more interaction with readers than ever before, and superfans aren’t afraid to share their opinions online. Here, three writers look at how this relationship has influenced their work

The Guardian - US

Twitter appears to delay links by five seconds to sites Elon Musk dislikes

When content posted from critical news outlets and competitor apps was clicked, it opened a blank screen, delaying access

Zenger

Elon Musk Plans To Transform Twitter Into An ‘Everything App’

Musk aims to blend Substack, YouTube, PayPal, Amazon, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu features in a comprehensive platform.

Sports Illustrated

Former Athletic Writer Who Was ‘Whacked’ Torches Company

Columnist Bob Kravitz pulls back the curtain on working at The Athletic and getting laid off.

Reason

Attack of the Twitter Clones

Plus: Groups ask Supreme Court to say public officials can't block people, latest jobs report shows openings down, and more...

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Wednesday’s NBA draft-eve rumors: Rockets intel for June 21

Amen Thompson looks increasingly like the #Rockets frontrunner at No. 4 overall, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Woo. As the pre-draft period enters its final hours, here’s where things stand.

Reason

COVID-19's 'Patients Zero' May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds

Plus: Grand jury indicts Jack Teixeira, Congress pursues A.I. regulation, and more...

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