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September 28, 2022, 6:35 AM

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Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
The latest iPadOS 16 developer beta makes Stage Manager work with older A12X and A12Z iPads, but does not support extending the display to an external monitor  —  Probably the biggest change Apple announced with iPadOS 16 earlier this year is Stage Manager, a totally new multitasking system …
Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer:
Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance  —  That's the same MSRP as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 it goes up against, but Intel says that the green team's card isn't actually that cheap.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple tells suppliers to pull back from efforts to increase supply of iPhone 14 models by ~6M units in H2 2022, aiming for 90M units, on par with 2021  —  Apple Inc. is backing off plans to increase production of its new iPhones this year after an anticipated surge in demand failed to materialize …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel  —  It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
Bloomberg:
The US SEC and CFTC fine 16 financial firms $1.1B and $710M in penalties, respectively, for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps  —  US regulators reached settlements with a dozen banks in a sprawling probe into how global financial firms failed to monitor employees' communications …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
VK, which owns Mail.ru and Russia's largest social network VKontakte, says Apple removed some of its apps from the App Store; the apps are still on Google Play  —  The translated statement says “some VK applications are blocked by Apple” but that it will “continue to develop and support iOS applications.”
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Tumblr introduces “community labels”, letting users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; no content rules are changing  —  Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.
Bloomberg:
US congressional aides say TikTok representatives have largely ignored Republican lawmakers, which could have serious consequences if the GOP retakes the House  —  There may be no more American form of unwinding than attending a football game.  So when TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shouzi Chew …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
The US SEC fines Oracle $23M for allegedly bribing officials in India, Turkey, and the UAE between 2016 and 2019, the second such fine after a 2012 settlement  —  - Oracle has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission after it was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018  —  Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows, ranging from billboards to floats in parades to airplane banners.
Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk:
Luxury auction house Christie's launches Christie's 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for NFT art in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial  —  Christie's 3.0 has teamed up with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial to sell NFT artwork on Ethereum.  —  Luxury auction house Christie's …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare says Greylock, Bessemer, and other VC firms offered to invest up to $1.25B from existing funds in startups that use its serverless computing platform  —  Cloudflare, the security, performance and reliability company that went public three years ago, said this morning …

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