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Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; LinkedIn shows Apple car exec Joe Bass has left for Meta — Apple Inc. is nearing its first launch event of the year, with a new iPhone SE and iPad on tap. Also: The company takes another hit …
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
There will be no bursting bubble, just a deflating balloon of high growth tech stock valuations returning to normal as factors that inflated them go away — Spoiler: the “Bubble” was a Balloon. And it's deflating. — Note: The below all seems fairly obvious, but given the amount … | Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv: |
EU Parliament passed Digital Services Act, including provisions banning targeted ads based on highly sensitive personal data, limiting dark patterns, and more — A large majority of MEPs voted in favour of the Digital Services Act on Thursday (20 January), after plenary amendments introduced important changes to the text.
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| Elliptic Blog: |
Research: an OpenSea bug is being exploited to purchase NFTs at below-market rates before flipping them, netting $1M+ across at least eight NFTs in 12 hours — A bug on NFT marketplace OpenSea is being exploited to purchase NFTs at well below market value.
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The Record and CoinDesk
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google, alleging it deceived users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014 — The complaints allege the company has deployed ‘dark patterns,’ design tricks that can subtly influence users' decisions in ways that are advantageous for a business| Wall Street Journal: |
How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US — Longstanding disagreements between federal agencies over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the days leading to the 5G debut
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| Kirsty Needham / Reuters: |
Australian PM Scott Morrison lost control of his official WeChat account months ago, while the still-active account now promotes Chinese life in Australia — Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party lost access to his official WeChat social media account months ago …
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ZDNet, Insider, The Economic Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, Social Media IO Roundup, and The Register. Tweets: @kirstylneedham
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
DeFi traders complain about network instability that hit Solana this weekend, four months after its last outage; Solana pushes update to fix “the worst effects” — Jim Greco, like many traders who have had to deal with the Solana network's outage over the last few days, is annoyed.
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Decrypt, Decentral Park Research, CoinGape, and Bloomberg
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Hundreds of German publishers, including Axel Springer, say Google is breaking EU law with its move to phase out third-party cookies from Chrome by next year — Axel Springer among the media groups demanding that Brussels intervene on search giant's plan — Google is facing a fresh complaint … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Amid a shift in malware targeting UEFI firmware, Kaspersky details new MoonBounce UEFI bootkit that can survive even after swapping the infected PC's hard drive — Security researchers from Kaspersky said on Thursday that they had discovered a novel bootkit that can infect a computer's UEFI firmware.
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TechRadar, Fossbytes, Hackaday, Tom's Hardware, and HotHardware.com News
Tweets: @therecord_media and @bitburner
| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Virtual worlds, with immersive experiences in the metaverse, will need far more network capacity than what is currently available in homes around the world — The speculative poetry of what might be possible online is jumping far ahead of a more prosaic reality
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MSNBC, WEEKLY RECON, So, What's the Big News ?, The Next Millionaire, Dark Side of the Street, and Rise & Shine ☀
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's DCMS committee says the Online Safety Bill falls short on protecting free speech, tackling illegal and harmful content in online services, and more — Another UK parliamentary committee has weighed in on the government's controversial plan to regulate Internet content with a broadbrush focus on ‘safety’.
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BBC, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Sky News, The Guardian, diginomica, and City A.M.
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