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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans to halt Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling under US review until December 25  —  In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a software fix to avoid an Apple Watch ban in the US over Masimo's patents; Masimo says “the hardware needs to change”  —  - Company submitting software workaround to customs agency  — Apple engineers are racing to develop fixes for patent issue
Reuters:
Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee  —  Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …
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Om Malik / On my Om:
UK and EU regulators blocking Adobe's Figma acquisition changes the liquidity environment for startup founders and VCs, focusing dollars on likely IPO winners
David Pierce / The Verge:
Flipboard plans to replace its entire social back end with ActivityPub and by April 2024 let any Flipboard user follow any fediverse account from within its app  —  Flipboard is taking its biggest step yet into the fediverse.  The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access  —  X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Coinbase, a16z, the Winklevoss twins, and others poured $78M into crypto super PACs in Q4 2023, an immense raise in three months, ahead of the 2024 US elections  —  Cryptocurrency industry leaders have poured $78 million into super PACs aimed at bolstering and growing the ranks …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says its board can hold back the release of an AI model even if OpenAI's leadership says it's safe, and announces a new internal safety advisory group  —  The arrangement was mentioned in a set of guidelines released Monday explaining how the ChatGPT-maker plans to deal with AI risks.
Reuters:
Iran says a cyberattack disrupted services at ~70% of gas stations nationwide; a hacking group that Iran accuses of having links to Israel claims responsibility  —  Iran's Oil Minister Javad Owji on Monday confirmed that a nationwide disruption to petrol stations was caused by a cyberattack.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Game preservationists are digging into a 1.2TB cache of TestFlight data, from roughly 2012 to 2015, found on the Internet Archive, containing a ton of old apps  —  A huge number of old mobile games and apps from TestFlight, which lets developers share in-development versions of their apps …
Reuters:
Sources: Chinese chip design companies are increasingly using Malaysian companies to assemble a portion of their high-end GPUs; the move does not break US rules  —  A growing number of Chinese semiconductor design companies are tapping Malaysian firms to assemble a portion of their high-end chips …

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Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a filing, ABC says the FCC has targeted daytime and late-night TV the administration doesn't like while “leaving untouched the vast landscape of talk radio”

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Martin Coulter / Reuters:
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers warn Biden that EU technology regulations are unfairly targeting US companies and not including many Chinese or EU companies
Agence France-Presse:
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, in jail since August 2023 for allegedly leaking classified documents, uses ElevenLabs' AI voice clone tool for a campaign speech
More: The Verge, Voicebot.ai, WION, Associated Press, and PetaPixel
X: @pitdesi.  LinkedIn: Veqar Islam and Chris McCoy.  Forums: Slashdot
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
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