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The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
As the EU finalizes the DMA and the DSA, a report reveals Big Tech companies' last-minute lobbying to limit crackdowns on surveillance advertising and more — A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc's digital rulebook.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
The EU's DSA forces Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, handle misinformation during crises, and more — The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world — The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a patched RCE flaw in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced ALAC in 2011 — Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file. — Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers …
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| The Economic Times: |
Amazon acquires GlowRoad, an Indian social commerce startup focused on women, which has 6M+ resellers in 2,000 cities and has raised ~$31M from Accel and others — - Amazon has acquired Glowroad in an all-cash deal. — Glowroad's team will join Amazon, but will continue to run as an independent unit for now.| The Intercept: |
Leaked sales pitch: US government contractor Anomaly Six, which says it can track ~3B phones in real time, demoed its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA staff — In partnership with — In the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss …
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| Bill Curry / Globe and Mail: |
Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing — Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Elon Musk convinced Morgan Stanley and 11 other banks to back his Twitter bid, including ideas on how to run the business and boost revenue — Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn't care about the economics of owning Twitter Inc. — But during a hectic …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Dave Limp, Amazon SVP of devices and services, on how ambient computing can enhance the world, Fire Phone's failure, Alexa shopping, Astro, and more — When Amazon launched Alexa — its voice-activated virtual assistant — in 2014, it was met with scepticism.
Tweets: @misterged, @leokelion, @daveleeft, @ivan_brussels, @mattmday, @mattmday, and @mattmday
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Research: hackers have stolen ~$2.9B worth of crypto across 37 hacks in 38 weeks since August, which is almost on par with the $3.2B stolen in all of 2021 — Hacker steals $182 million over the weekend, the fifth largest hack on record — Cryptocurrency hacks are getting bigger.
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Politico and DeFi Education Fund's …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
The NLRB rules that 21 QA employees at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software unit are allowed to have a union election; they have until May 20 to submit ballots — The employees have until May 20th to submit their ballots — Twenty-one Raven Software QA employees have until May 20th …
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Washington Post, Windows Central, Polygon, Game Developer, Dot Esports, TheGamer, TechCrunch, and GamesIndustry.biz
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
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