Threads, Twilio, Amazon Astro, Chatgpt

📈 Mark Zuckerberg reports that Threads has over 175M monthly active users, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5. Sources say Meta may introduce ads on Threads in 2025. [link]

📱🔒 Twilio reports that threat actors have identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy. Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from the U.S. messaging giant Twilio. [link]

🤖📉 Amazon will discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for small and medium-sized businesses announced in November 2023, effective September 25. The company will shift focus to its Astro home robot. [link]

🔒💻 OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt conversations stored locally after a user found that the app was saving chats in plain text. [link]

🇪🇺📦 Sources indicate that later in July, the EU will propose eliminating the €150 threshold below which goods are exempt from customs duties, aiming at platforms like Temu, AliExpress, and Shein. [link]

🇯🇵💾 Japan's government has phased out the use of floppy disks in all its systems, following the elimination of over 1,000 regulations related to their use. [link]

📱🌟 Noplace, a fresh social media platform featuring vibrant, customisable profiles and text-based updates catering to Gen Z, has surged to the top spot on the iOS App Store in the US. [link]

⚖️🚫 A federal court in Texas issues a temporary block on the US government's ban on noncompete agreements, originally scheduled to take effect on September 4. [link]

🇧🇷🛡️ Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's privacy policy for using personal data to train AI models in the country and imposes a daily ~$8,800 fine. [link]