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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Shruti Shekar / Android Central: |
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a restaurant in the US, with a minimalist design in black 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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| 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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| Joy Press / Vanity Fair: |
Streamers are acting like network TV, as they pull back on edgy content and seek “elevated broadcasts”, like sitcoms, under financial pressure and competition — Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution.| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Stockholm-based Planhat, which provides customer relationship management software to companies, raises a $50M Series A after seven years of bootstrapping — Previously bootstrapped Planhat raises one of the Nordics' largest Series A rounds of 2022 — Planhat ends bootstrapped journey with $50m Series A
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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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| 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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| 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.
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