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| Jennifer Young / Windows Central: |
Microsoft plans to ban unauthorized Xbox third-party accessories from November 12, and sources say plans to expand its program for approved wireless controllers — Error 0x82d60002 informs players their devices will be blocked. Here's why. — What you need to know
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in the EU, the EEA, and Switzerland an ad-free option for €9.99/month or €12.99/month, plus the free ad tier — - Plans cost €9.99 per month on the web, €12.99 on mobile — The model follows increasing EU regulations on data access
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to temporarily suspend showing ads to all users under 18 in the EU and parts of Europe starting on November 6, to comply with EU regulations — Ad changes for Instagram and Facebook owner are aimed at navigating EU rules about targeted ads — Meta Platforms will stop showing adverts …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Biden signs an EO on generative AI, directing the NIST, DHS, and other agencies to create new safety standards, protect privacy, support workers, and more — President Joe Biden signed an executive order providing rules around generative AI, ahead of any legislation coming from lawmakers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai attributes Google's search dominance to its early investment and innovation in Chrome, aiming to improve the user's web experience — Sundar Pichai says search giant realized early on that browsers were critical to how people use the web| Reuters: |
Graphic pro-Israel ads are appearing in kids' video games, like Angry Birds, across Europe; Israel has spent $1.5M on online ads since Hamas' October 7 attack — Maria Julia Cassis was sitting down to a meal in her terraced home in north London when her 6-year-old son ran into the dining room, his face pale.
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| CoinDesk: |
The UK government publishes its final crypto rules and plans a phased introduction of regulations, such as legislation for fiat-backed stablecoins in early 2024 — The government plans to propose legislation on fiat-backed stablecoins by early 2024. — Register Now
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm invited press to a private event to showcase the Snapdragon X Elite, slated for mid-2024, competing favorably in benchmarks against other select chips — Last week we saw the announcement of Qualcomm's first post-Nuvia laptop SoC design, the Snapdragon X Elite.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
China's surprise Foxconn investigation may backfire and cause suppliers, which see even Apple and its partners are not safe in China, to diversify more quickly — China's investigation into top Apple supplier Foxconn could dilute the incentives for manufacturers to diversify away from the country slowly, rather than in a sprint
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| Financial Times: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 14 review: an unexciting release for users, featuring a lightly customizable lock screen, better back button functionality, and under-the-hood changes — Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else. — Does anybody care about Android 14?
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
Western Digital plans to spin off its flash memory unit into a second public company, and focus on hard drives, after the Kioxia merger collapsed; WDC jumps 5%+ — Western Digital (WDC.O) said on Monday it would split itself into two companies that would focus on the hard drive and flash memory markets …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google details its research into audioplethysmography (APG), which can add heart rate sensing capabilities to ANC headphones “with a simple software upgrade” — Google today detailed its research into audioplethysmography (APG) that adds heart rate sensing capabilities to active noise canceling … Sponsor Posts
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