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October 3, 2022, 7:30 PM

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Mike Calia / CNBC:
Kim Kardashian agrees to not push crypto securities for three years and pay the SEC $1.26M for not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram  —  - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out its edit button, letting users edit five times in 30 minutes, to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, coming soon to the US  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social network announced on Monday.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom  —  The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The US Supreme Court agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases involving terrorist content, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, and rule by July 2023  —  The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued over targeted content recommendations …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Some YouTube users say the service is asking them to purchase a Premium subscription to watch videos in 4K, a feature that is currently free for all users  —  YouTube's Premium paid subscription includes benefits like ad-free viewing, video and song downloads for offline consumption, and background plays.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony plans to make 2M PlayStation VR2 units by March 2023; mass production began in September 2022 and has not yet faced supply chain constraints  —  Sony Group Corp. plans to make 2 million units of the PlayStation VR2 headset by March next year, people familiar with the matter said …
New York Times:
Sources: as soon as this week, the US is likely to limit access of several Chinese AI and supercomputing companies and labs to US tech, machinery, and software  —  The new rules could be the most sweeping action taken yet by the Biden administration to thwart China's access to American technology …

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