Complicating the speaker strategies of Apple and other tech giants, Sonos just filed for a public offering. “Sonos’ filing also revealed a deeper look at its recent earnings,” The Verge notes. “Recent numbers seem impressive, with the company generating $655.7 million in revenue in the six months from October 2017 to the end of March this year, with a net income of $13.1 million.”

Poynter looks at various efforts to curb misinformation circulating among WeChat’s roughly 1 billion monthly active users. “The ad hoc method these projects employ is similar to the approach attempted by fact-checkers on WhatsApp, where readers are asked to send potential hoaxes to institutional accounts and distribute the resulting fact checks,” it writes.  

As part of a broader update to Twitterrific, the Mac OS X and iOS client is dropping push notifications. “Their answer to this problem is to use the first-party Twitter client,” 9To5Mac writes. “Any users who purchased the Push Notifications Advanced Features on iOS will continue to receive notifications until Twitter deactivates the API, which will be around August 16.”

TiVo is losing its CEO after less than a year on the job. “The move comes as the San Jose-based company has been weighing strategic alternatives that include a potential sale, buying another company or going private,” writes Silicon Valley Business Journal. “TiVo said that review is continuing and it expects to provide an update by its second-quarter earnings call.”

The European Parliament just voted to reconsider a controversial digital copyright reform proposal. Recently, “The EU parliament’s legal affairs committee approved the final text of the copyright proposal … kicking off a last-ditch effort by groups opposed to what they dub the ‘link tax’ and ‘censorship machines,’” TechCrunch notes.

Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile service is adding additional speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage, ars technica reports. “Videos will be throttled to 480p (DVD quality) on all Comcast mobile plans unless you pay extra, while Comcast’s ‘unlimited’ plan will limit mobile hotspot speeds to 600kbps,” it writes. “Only customers who pay by the gigabyte will get full-speed tethering.”

Bloomberg takes us inside what it calls Instagram’s “master class” for marketing executives. “In attendance are executives and marketing managers from various fashion and beauty companies,” it writes. “They’ve all come to learn how to make piles of money using the ubiquitous app … But the folks at Instagram have a lot to learn from them, too.”  

Samsung’s default texting app, Messages, appears to have sent out users’ pictures without their permission. “The problem stems from Samsung Messages, the default texting app on Galaxy devices, which (for reasons that haven’t been determined), is erroneously sending pictures stored on the devices to random contacts via SMS,” Gizmodo reports.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the FBI are all reportedly investigating Facebook’s connection to Cambridge Analytica. “Representatives from these agencies have joined the Federal Trade Commission in the inquiry,” Reuters reports, citing a story in The Washington Post. “The probe reportedly centers on what Facebook knew in 2015.”

Instagram and Facebook appear to be testing a “Do Not Disturb” feature that "allows you to activate the feature for a certain time frame or until you decide to turn it off,” Engadgetreports. “The features come as both Google and Apple have announced their operating systems will soon give users Do Not Disturb options.”