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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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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Netherlands fines Apple €5M, saying Apple's changes to IAP payments “failed to satisfy the requirements”; the fine rises €5M/week to €50M until Apple complies — The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has ruled that Apple's plan to allow App Store dating apps …
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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
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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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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
The cryptocurrency market has lost ~$130B over the last 24 hours; bitcoin and ether reached their lowest level since July and are down 50%+ from all-time highs — - The cryptocurrency market saw around $130 billion wiped off its value over the last day as major digital coins continued their multi-day sell-off.| 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 …
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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, Associated Press, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, Social Media IO Roundup, and The Register. Tweets: @kirstylneedham
| 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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| 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 …
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| 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
| 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
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| Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: |
Autonomous air taxi startup Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, raises $450M from Boeing — US manufacturer's Wisk investment is latest sign of investor appetite in emerging sector — Boeing has committed another $450m in an existing joint venture focused …
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