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Sources: Apple plans to launch a monthly subscription service by 2023 for the iPhone and other hardware that could tie into Apple One bundles and AppleCare — Apple Inc. is working on a subscription service for the iPhone and other hardware products, a move that could make device ownership similar …
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| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
EU lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the DMA, which will mandate messaging service interoperability, prohibit self-preferencing practices, and more — The European Union today adopted landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world's largest technology platforms …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber agrees to list all ~14K New York City taxis on its app, rolling out later this spring; fares will be roughly the same for taxi rides as for Uber X rides — Company that vowed to disrupt the U.S. taxi industry is now betting that traditional taxis will fuel its next wave of growth| BBC: |
UK police arrest seven people aged 16 to 21 as part of an investigation “into a hacking group”, but did not say if the teenager behind Lapsus$ is among them — A 16-year-old from Oxford has been accused of being one of the leaders of cyber-crime gang Lapsus$.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The DOJ arrest and charge two men with wire fraud and money laundering over an alleged $1.1M NFT rug pull scheme for their collection named “Frosties” — They'd already announced a follow-up series — US government prosecutors have charged two men with fraud and money laundering over a cryptocurrency “rug pull” scheme.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter finally upgrades DMs to let users search through their conversations by keyword, not just names, on the web, iOS, and Android — The search bar now scours the content of your messages — Twitter announced on Wednesday that its DM search feature has gotten a big upgrade …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Netflix says it is buying Boss Fight Entertainment, a mobile game developer with 130 employees; it is Netflix's third studio purchase since last summer — The acquisition is the company's third since it announced plans to move into video games last summer.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Automated accounting software startup Digits raises a $65M Series C at a $565M valuation led by SoftBank's Vision Fund, bringing its total funding to $97.5M — Digits, the startup that is building a new take on accounting software through an approach that it describes as building a …
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Crowdfund Insider, The Economic Times, and Axios
| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Filing: Apple argues that Epic lost the Epic v. Apple trial because it failed to prove wrongdoing and not because of any legal errors on the judge's part — In a new brief, Apple declares that Epic Games lost the Epic v. Apple trial because it failed to prove wrongdoing — and not because of any legal errors on the judge's part.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a valuation of at least $60B for Arm when the company goes public, higher than the $40B that a sale to Nvidia would have fetched — SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a valuation of at least $60 billion for Arm Ltd. when the business goes public …
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SiliconANGLE and International Business Times
| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
The FBI seems to be targeting disgruntled Russian embassy staff in Washington, DC via carefully geo-targeted recruitment ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Google — The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country's invasion of Ukraine …
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Fortune. Tweets: @hexadecim8, @mattblaze, @digiphile, @zachsdorfman, @chicagocyber, @ryanbarwick, @katieharbath, @w7voa, @evawolfangel, @tyfrost, @postroz, and @stevebellovin
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov says Ukraine is using Clearview AI's tools to identify the bodies of dead Russian soldiers and to trace their families to inform them — Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families …
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Forbes, The Hill, Gizmodo, Gizchina, Techdirt, Washington Post, Pixel Envy, and Insider
Tweets: @iblametom, @ohra_aho, @iblametom, @dietrichvfa41, @lukeobrien, and @katebevan. Thanks:@peard33
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google employees criticized executives at an all-hands after an internal survey showed compensation concerns; Sundar Pichai said pay assessments could change — - Following an employee survey that showed Google staffers are increasingly unhappy about pay, executives were hit with a barrage of questions on the topic.
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San Francisco Business Journal and Protocol
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla launches MDN Plus, a $5/month or $10/month subscription for its developer network, offering notifications, article collections, offline access, and more — Mozilla today launched MDN Plus, a paid subscription product on top of the existing (and recently re-designed) Mozilla Developer Network … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit confirms it is considering letting users react to others' videos using editing tools resembling TikTok's Stitches and Duets — Reddit is exploring the idea of bringing more user-generated video content to its online discussion forums, the company has confirmed.
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