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October 25, 2022, 11:45 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
WhatsApp says it has fixed an issue that caused a major outage worldwide, lasting from around 3AM to 5AM ET  —  WhatsApp went down in a major outage affecting the communications app for two hours today.  The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET, with users greeted with a “connecting” message.
James Vincent / The Verge:
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators  —  Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry?  It's a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions  —  With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.
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Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Microsoft stocks up on Chinese games to emulate Sony's success with Genshin Impact; filings show Microsoft paid $4.8M for Snail Games' ARK and ARK 2  —  Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is stocking up on Chinese video game content to emulate Sony Group Corp's (6758.T) success with “Genshin Impact” …
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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
macOS Ventura review: Stage Manager has some good ideas and runs much better on the Mac than on the iPad, the new System Settings app is inconsistent, and more  —  A pleasantly surprising new multitasking UI and app redesigns define macOS 13.  —  If you asked me to tell you all the most exciting things …
Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
NEAR Protocol shuts down USN, its stablecoin launched in April 2022, “to safeguard USN holders” after USN exhibited risky characteristics like those of TerraUSD  —  To avoid another LUNA debacle, the undercollateralized USN will be phased out.  —  A stablecoin project …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
The UK's FCA plans to investigate Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta's moves into retail financial services over competition and consumer harm concerns  —  Financial Conduct Authority says Silicon Valley's resources might harm competition and disadvantage others
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
The Amazon Labor Union withdraws its petition for an election at a southern California warehouse, after losing an election at a New York warehouse last week  —  Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to join a union at a company warehouse in Southern California have backed away from their attempt …
Financial Times:
A look at TSMC's efforts to build ever-smaller, more powerful, and energy efficient semiconductors, as competitors race to catch up and erode its edge  —  Taiwan chipmaker ‘could stumble’ as industry is forced to develop new transistor technology  —  Smartphone chip design house MediaTek …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
The Competition Commission of India fines Google $113M over alleged anti-competitive Play Store practices, following a $161.9M fine over Android from last week  —  India's antitrust watchdog has hit Google with $113 million fine for abusing the dominant position of its Google Play Store …

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