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August 22, 2022, 6:50 PM

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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Apple expands its Self Service Repair offerings to cover the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pros; the repair kit is available to rent for $49  —  Four months after opening its Self Service Repair offerings to iPhone owners in the U.S., Apple is adding a handful of MacBooks to the mix.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery  —  Dorsey joins the battle  —  As Twitter and Elon Musk prepare for their October 17th trial date in the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue …
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
A father who used his Android phone to send photos of his baby's groin to a doctor says Google disabled his account after flagging CSAM and informing the police  —  Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children.  But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is among the bidders for Signify Health, which is for sale in an auction that could value the home-health services provider at well over $8B  —  The home-health services provider is for sale in an auction that could value the company at well over $8 billion.
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla will raise the price of FSD from $12K to $15K in September when Tesla rolls out a new beta that lets drivers test features on public roads  —  - Tesla plans a 25% price increase for its premium, driver assistance system marketed in the U.S. as the Full Self-Driving, or FSD, option.
Varsha Bansal / Wired:
Police in Delhi, India, who use facial recognition to identify protesters, say they consider 80%+ accuracy a “positive” match, raising concerns among activists  —  Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.

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