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September 12, 2021, 12:40 AM

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple warns that long-term exposure to vibrations, like those from high-power motorcycle engines, can degrade iPhone cameras by damaging their gyroscopes — Apple today published a new support document warning iPhone users that the cameras on their devices can be damaged by exposure …

Source: Apple Support. More: The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Benzinga, CNET, Neowin, PetaPixel, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, TechSpot, Mashable, HotHardware.com News, PCMag, iClarified, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, Engadget, iMore, and Livemint

Tweets: @sdw, @sdw, @sub8u, @halidecamera, and @refrshingapathy

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation — A new study finds that Microsoft's companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside …

More: Nature, Slashdot, and The Register

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP — The order opens up a new avenue for purchases on the iPhone — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a permanent injunction …

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New York Times:

Small developers say the Epic ruling could lead to a windfall but some researchers say it is unclear if consumers will actually use alternative payment methods — After a judge opened up a way to avoid Apple's commission on their sales, companies big and small are seeing dollar signs.

More: The Economic Times and iMore

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M.G. Siegler / 500ish:

Apple won the Epic battle but is too arrogant to see that it still has to make some major App Store changes to both appease the courts and please developers

More: Coinspeaker. Tweets: @ruanviljoen, @ohmdee, @evdz, @johnwilson, @slightlylate, and @ppk007

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg

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Roger McNamee / TIME:

Antitrust action in Europe and the US is inevitable and Apple should rethink its stance towards regulators, often described as arrogant to inflexible

Tweets: @jason_kint, @drbarnard, @time, @drbarnard, @benlovejoy, @moonalice, @moonalice, @moonalice, and @willoremus

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

A fair reading of the Epic vs. Apple injunction suggests that Apple needs to allow third-party payment methods in the app and not just links to ones on the web

More: FOSS Patents and Tech Xplore

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Selina Cheng / Hong Kong Free Press:

Google says it handed over user data in response to three requests from Hong Kong in H2 2020, despite earlier saying that requests must be made through US DOJ — The US tech giant told HKFP it complied with a data request over a “credible threat to life” and two others involving human trafficking.

More: Engadget, The Verge, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @williamyang120, @tomgrundy, and @selina_cheng

Kevin Collier / NBC News:

Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021 — Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren.

Tweets: @kevincollier, @kevincollier, @hacks4pancakes, and @kevincollier

Davey Alba / New York Times:

Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed — More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …

Simon Parkin / The Guardian:

How FBI and Australian police built and marketed the An0m chat service for criminals, which cost $1,700 for a handset and $1,250 for an annual subscription — Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem …

Tweets: @evansthecrime, @simonparkin, @awinston, and @chey_cobb

Bloomberg:

Sources: US officials are considering a Financial Stability Oversight Council review into whether Tether and other stablecoins threaten financial stability — - Treasury, other agencies consider launching FSOC examination — Tokens' fast growth has triggered anxieties among regulators

Tweets: @tphillips, @davidgerard, and @stuartlwallace

Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals:

Denmark-based Corti, a SaaS startup using AI to help health professionals improve patient consultations on phone or video in real time, raises $27M Series A — Copenhagen-based Corti.ai, a healthtech SaaS startup that helps emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time …

Source: Business Wire. More: HIT Consultant, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs

Financial Times:

Number of UK unicorns grew 10x in the last decade, with invested capital growing from €1B/year to €13B/year, but some worry Brexit will counteract the change — A decade ago, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann stood before prospective investors at Seedcamp, a start-up event in London, and set fire to a £50 note.

Tweets: @danielthomasldn, @tbraithwaite, @nathanbenaich, and @financialtimes

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Benioff says Salesforce will help employees and their families “exit Texas” if they are worried about access to reproductive healthcare in the state — - Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they're concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care …

More: The Guardian, The Hill, Axios, CNET, TheStreet, New York Post, Associated Press, NBC News, Insider, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @benioff, @wendydavis, @rafaelshimunov, @gavinnewsom, @cecilerichards, @nancyleegrahn, @yoshikiofficial, @danprimack, @rstephens, and @joesilverman7

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:

Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:

Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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Noam Cohen / Wired:

Profile of Ksenia Coffman, who has made 97K edits and created 3,200 pages on Wikipedia, and her efforts to remove glorified Nazi history from the site

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Nikkei Asia:

Canon to acquire Canadian chipmaker Redlen after buying the remaining 85% stake for $270M; Redlen's tech to help Canon reduce radiation exposure in CT scanners

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Joseph F. Kovar / CRN:

Zoom has invested an additional $30M in Norway-based Neat, which makes video conferencing devices, bringing its total investment to $41M

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump's last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:

Internal docs: Google realized last year it illegally underpaid temp staff in many countries for years, but was slow to fix the issue fearing negative publicity

TechCrunch:

Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp will start rolling out e2e encrypted backups to iOS and Android users in the coming weeks as an optional feature

More: The Hacker News, MacRumors, fossbytes.com, and The Register

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone will be the next CEO of Yahoo following the closure of Apollo's acquisition of Yahoo on September 1

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