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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 — Twitter's 11-member board met on Sunday morning to discuss Mr. Musk's offer to buy the company and take it private. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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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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| 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.| 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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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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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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| 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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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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How Telegram became the most prominent platform for the right-wing fringe, including by not having a recommendation algorithm, which helps groups stay hidden — Once conservative America decided that mainstream social media platforms were unfairly censoring them — a belief born of pressure … | 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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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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