Technology

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-like app “Threads” is reportedly set to launch on Thursday in a move that will escalate the Meta boss’s growing feud with embattled tech billionaire Elon Musk. A listing for Threads within Apple’s App Store indicated that the app will be closely tied to Meta-owned Instagram, with users able to keep their same username and retain their followers. …

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday announced rate limits on the number of tweets users can view which caused a spike in traffic at rival social media platform Bluesky. Musk imposed the rate limits because of “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, saying that Twitter was “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading the user experience!” …

Twitter users will soon need to be verified in order to use TweetDeck, the social media company said in a tweet on Monday. The change will take effect in 30 days, the company said. We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://t.co/2WwL3hNVR2 by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” …

Apple’s much-hyped $3,500 “Vision Pro” mixed-reality headset is already running into major production headaches ahead of its launch early next year, according to a report Monday. The tech giant, which became the first company in history to achieve a $3 trillion market valuation last week, was reportedly forced to “make drastic cuts” to its headset production targets because key manufacturing …

Shares of Tesla jumped by more than 6% in trading on Wall Street on Monday after Elon Musk’s electric car maker reported better-than-expected second quarter delivery numbers. Musk’s price cuts helped the company deliver 466,140 vehicles in the April to June period, up 10% from the preceding quarter and 83% higher from a year earlier. The gap between how many …

Elon Musk’s move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by new CEO Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said. Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. Users posted screenshots in reply, showing …

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey defended Elon Musk amid backlash over the decision by the social media site’s boss to introduce “rate limits” which cap the number of tweets users can see per day. “Running Twitter is hard,” Dorsey tweeted on Monday. “I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to get his Quest headsets on shelves in China due to his past criticisms of the Communist-run government, according to a report. The Facebook co-founder and other Meta executives have contacted Tencent Holdings about bringing his virtual reality headset to a market of more than 1.4 billion people, according to The Wall Street Journal. …

Twitter CEO Elon Musk drew the ire of thousands of users after he announced a temporary limit on the number of posts that can be read in a day.  Musk said the social media company was implementing post-reading limits to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” On Saturday afternoon, verified accounts could read up to 6,000 posts per day, …

Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors’ copyrights. Matthew Butterick, an attorney for the authors, declined …