Some US federal agencies have been banned from contacting social media companies to push for removal of material the government deems inappropriate.



Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code for Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution, following that company's 21 June announcement about fresh curbs on access to the source.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is set to launch a rival to Twitter with the name Threads on Thursday, even as the Elon Musk-owned app is hit by fresh turmoil.

Mobile technology giant Samsung announced its plans to open Samsung Game Portal, an online store specialising in gaming and on Samsung.com in more than 30 countries around the world, starting with the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Brazil.

Tradie marketplace operator hipages Group has promoted Jeremy Burton to the role of CTO, allowing former chief product and technology officer Herry Wiputra to focus his efforts are chief product officer.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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