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December 19, 2023, 4:55 AM

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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 blood oxygen 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
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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Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
Google agrees to pay $700M and make certain changes to its app store to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit brought by 36 US states and the District of Columbia  —  Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store  —  Google parent Alphabet agreed …
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator  —  A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok updates its app for tablets and foldable devices, adding streamlined navigation bars and a landscape mode, as the company seeks to compete with YouTube  —  TikTok has rolled out an update to enhance the app experience for viewers on tablets and foldable devices, the company announced on Monday.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.

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