After adjusting the number of Tweets people could see several times over the weekend…depending on if they are Blue members or not…and after blocking people from reading Tweets unless they are logged in to Twitter…Elon Musk has backtracked. Engadget.com reports that people can now read Tweets without a login. Musk had said making the platform inaccessible to logged out users was a ‘temporary emergency measure.’ It appears the limits on number of Tweets you can read per day is still in place…but Twitter has increased the number several times.

Tomorrow is the day…the day Instagram’s new Threads app goes live for all. Meta’s Twitter competitor briefly went live on the web for a few hours earlier today. Theverge.com says the interface is pretty basic…like, comment, repost, and share — all prompting you to download the mobile app for the time being. It will be live first in the US, although EU users will be able to view threads…just won’t be able to post as yet. If you are interested, and think Zuckerberg is less odious than Elon, the apps should be available for iOS and Android on tomorrow, the 6th of July.

One thing that no one gripes about with phone sizes…bigger batteries. Now, a rumor has been picked up by 9to5mac.com saying all the iPhone 15 models will get a bigger battery. The base iPhone 15 will have an 18% bigger one, the 15 Plus about 13.6% larger, and the iPhone Pro will get a 14% bigger battery. The 15 Pro Max will only get a bit less than 11% more in the battery department. The Pro models should get noticeably longer time on a charge as they move to 3 nanometer tech for their processors. The smaller processors use less juice. 

From the ‘what could possibly go wrong’ department, the TSA is getting set to expand its controversial facial recognition to 430 airports over then next several years. The agency claims the pilot program was ‘extremely promising.’ Fastcompany.com reports that rights advocates claim the agency is improperly coercing travelers to participate. The TSA says they don’t save your biometric data. “TSA doing its own testing and not releasing the results publicly calls into question the quality of the testing and veracity of the results,” says Jeramie Scott, a senior counsel and director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s surveillance oversight program. “Given there are over 2 million airline passengers a day, a 97% effective rate means there would be over 60,000 people a day the tech doesn’t work on if fully implemented. Have fun, flyers!

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.