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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
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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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Figma expects to finish 2023 with $600M+ in ARR, up 40%+ YoY, and is considering selling employee shares in a secondary offering in the coming months — The decision by Adobe and Figma to spike their $20 billion merger on Monday dented the imminent dream of startup riches for Figma investors and employees.
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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.
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| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
The US DOT fines Southwest Airlines $140M, in addition to customer refunds, for the December 2022 meltdown caused by its antiquated flight scheduling software — Wrist, meet slap: Only a quarter will be paid to Treasury, the rest is vouchers and credits — The US Department of Transportation has … | 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 …
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| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Electric Coin, Zcash's main developer, says that Zooko Wilcox, the project's creator, will step down as CEO, and names former SVP of Growth Josh Swihart as CEO — The overseeing board of Zcash, known for its privacy-oriented “shielded” addresses or “z-addresses,” credited Wilcox with delivery of …
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| 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.
More: OpenAI, The Decoder, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, The Information, TechCrunch, Washington Post, and The Messenger
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| Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Appin co-founder Rajat Khare used law firms to threaten US, UK, Swiss, Indian, and Luxembourg outlets to kill stories about the hack-for-hire industry — A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to …
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