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December 16, 2023, 4:30 PM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability  —  The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’
Alex Heath / The Verge:
New York Times:
California drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard saying investigations haven't substantiated allegations; Activision will pay ~$54M  —  The California Civil Rights Department said in a settlement agreement that no “investigation has substantiated any allegations” against the video game maker.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they're actively subscribed to another subscription  —  Apple has announced a new “contingent pricing” feature for subscriptions in the App Store.  According to the company …
Erin Woo / The Information:
Hannah Miao / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+  —  Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match  —  Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …
More: Reuters
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022  —  Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.
George Hammond / Financial Times:
An interview with Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on the lack of resources for academic AI, Silicon Valley's “bro” culture, keeping AI safe for humanity, and more  —  The China-born technologist on Silicon Valley's ‘bro’ culture — and her mission to keep AI safe for humanity
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents  —  ‘Mold of the internet’ has appeared on 50 platforms, researchers say  —  When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging Apple misrepresented the way that third-party app subscriptions worked with Family Sharing  —  Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case.

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