Twitter API fallout, Section 230, TikTok ban, tech layoffs, AmazonSmile RIP

• Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients.


• Twitterrific: End of an Era.


• In Memory of Tweetbot.


• Extremely Hardcore.


• Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options.


• Google has been sued and is involved in a lawsuit over YouTube algorithms.


• Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230.


• R Street Institute signs onto amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google.


• Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech.


• India blocks YouTube videos and Twitter posts on BBC Modi documentary.


• As states ban TikTok on government devices, evidence of harm is thin.


• TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral.


• How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation.


• Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.


• Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees.


• Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens.


• Apple Postpones AR/VR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset (AAPL).


• How Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches.


• Comixology hit hard by Amazon's massive layoffs.


• Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine.


• CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy.


• The Lisa: Apple's Most Influential Failure.


• T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers.


• AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces.


• Former Exec explains why on Reddit.

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