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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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9to5Mac, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, Tech Advisor, Macworld, XDA Developers, autoevolution, Digital Trends, iMore, TechRadar, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechCircle, AppleInsider, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, Pocket-lint, Coinspeaker, iPhone in Canada Blog, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, and La Wikly de Emilio Doménech
Tweets: @dylandkt, @dylandkt, @dylandkt, @lukemiani, @tailosivetech, @dylandkt, @markgurman, @patrickmcgee_, @markgurman, and @saranbyte
| 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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The Verge, European Parliament, TechRadar, Washington Post, Lukasz Olejnik on Cyber …, Open Access Government, Tech Policy Press, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Slashdot, Verdict, The Parliament Magazine, The Parliament Magazine, DW.COM, Bloomberg, euronews, The Register, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Politico, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Fortune, and Reuters
| 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
Tweets: @yakirrotem, @tomrobin, @yakirrotem, @reviewinc101, and @charlesarthur
| 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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Breaking the News, Telecoms.com, Six Colors, and NPR
| 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
Tweets: @aeyakovenko, @fintechfrank, @metaverse_llc, @petermccormack, @algoseanlee, @kgreifeld, @jgreco, @mattsenter, and @mattsenter
| 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 ☀
Tweets: @sonaliranade, @thatdanstewart, and @jerrycap
| 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.
Tweets: @commonsdcms, @cyberleagle, @commonsdcms, @paulbernaluk, @matthewlesh, and @trialbytruth
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