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Sources: Twitter's board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk's bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk's filing detailed $46.5B in financing — The company's 11-member board was negotiating with Mr. Musk into the morning on Monday over his offer to buy the social networking service and take it private.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more — A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy. — Organizations using newer versions …
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Apple warns it will remove apps from the App Store that haven't been “updated in a significant amount of time” and is giving developers 30 days to update them — Wiping apps that haven't been updated in a ‘significant amount of time’ — Apple may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates.
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| Shruti Shekar / Android Central: |
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a US restaurant, with a minimalist design in black, a crown, and a proprietary Google band — If this is the final design of the Google Pixel Watch, then many of the rumors have come true. — What you need to know
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
iPhone 14 expectations: a larger 6.7" non-Pro Max, while the Pro models will get the A16, a 48MP wide-angle camera, and pill-shaped and circular notch cutouts — Even though it may feel like the iPhone 13 just went on sale, the iPhone 14 launch is less than six months away.| Washington Post: |
Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants — Tech companies are facing increasing momentum from workers trying to organize — At a Staten Island warehouse set to start …
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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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| Aditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: |
DoubleMe, a South Korean startup specializing in converting 2D videos into 3D models for the metaverse, raises a $25M Series A with Samsung among investors — DoubleMe, a South Korea-based metaverse startup, has raised US$25 million in a series A round co-led by Coentry Investment and NH Investment …
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that Guangzhou granted the company a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city — - Self-driving start-up Pony.ai announced Sunday it received a taxi license, the first of its kind in China.
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| Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
An interview with Puerto Rican Twitch star Ironmouse, who suffers from the chronic illness CVID and is the most popular VTuber on Twitch with 1M+ followers — It's day 28 of Ironmouse's live-streaming marathon, and the Twitch streamer has taken a brief break from her usual programming … | MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Jakarta's “base camps”, informal meeting points that let Gojek drivers organize for better working conditions, including health insurance and sick pay — In Jakarta, ride-hailing giant Gojek's fleet of motorbike taxi drivers are building worker power through worker community.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Industries calls off its $3.4B acquisition of core parts of Indian retail chain Future Group, following Amazon's legal fight against the deal — Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire core parts of retail chain Future Group after the latter's secured …
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