Tag: internet
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival app Threads
On Wednesday, an attorney for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg alleging his company stole trade secrets to help create a “copycat” rival app, Threads.
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Piracy site Soap2day shuts down without notice
TV and film pirating website Soap2day shut down yesterday without notice. In a short statement published to their website, the owners said: Hello guys. We have decided to close soap2day forever. We are very sorry :) Bye Soap2day Team Loyal users of the site have taken to social media to voice their devastation with the…
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Opinion: Reddit must not betray its community for profit
Reddit’s recently announced API changes have caused uproar, including a 48-hour “black out” of thousands of subreddits. With the company making over US$500 million last year, CEO Steve Huffman’s claim that the website is not “self-sustaining” does not hold water, especially as Reddit is currently valued at $10 billion.
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Thousands of Reddit communities “go dark” in protest of API changes
Today, over 7,000 subreddits have made themselves private — “gone dark” — in protest of new changes to Reddit’s API. An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a way for programs to talk to each other, and Reddit’s is undergoing some big changes.