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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Apple won't offer hardware swaps for out-of-warranty Watch models going back to Series 6 in the US during the ITC's ban but will offer help via software  —  - Company will only be able to conduct software-based repairs  — Hardware swaps for broken Apple Watches won't be offered in US
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple stops selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in its online store in the US, days before the ITC's Watch import ban goes into effect
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Filing: the US ITC denies Apple's motion to stay the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 import and sales ban while awaiting an appeal; Biden can veto the ban
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie defends not removing or demonetizing Nazi content after 200+ authors criticize it for “platforming and monetizing Nazis”  —  More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it's “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” …
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
A UK judge sentences Arion Kurtaj, the 18-year-old who leaked GTA VI code and hacked Nvidia, to a secure hospital until a mental health tribunal lets him leave  —  - Arion Kurtaj placed in hospital to protect public from harm  — Two teens sentenced for hacking, blackmailing tech firms
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Mixed Reality and remove the feature in a future Windows update; most Windows VR headsets launched between 2017 and 2021  —  Windows Mixed Reality will be removed from a future version of Windows  —  What you need to know
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple AI researchers publish papers on using human gaussian splats to generate animated 3D avatars from videos and deploying LLMs on devices with limited memory  —  Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
TechCrunch:
Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity stops offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil, and France, months after a “limited time access” expansion  —  Worldcoin is no longer offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil and France, just months …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Evan Blass leaks an apparent countdown to Galaxy Unpacked on January 17, which says “Galaxy AI is coming”, and a Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra spec sheet  —  If rumors are to be believed, we're less than a month away from the launch of Samsung's latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S24 range.
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Cisco acquires cloud-native security and networking startup Isovalent, which had raised $69M and has helped develop open-source projects eBPF and Cilium  —  Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
France's AMF watchdog gives Coinbase a virtual asset service provider approval, as the company pushes deeper in Europe amid its regulations rift with the US SEC  —  - France's AMF watchdog gave Coinbase virtual asset service provider (VASP) approval, which is effectively a green light …
Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Privacy campaigners say the UK quietly introduced legislation to let police run facial recognition searches on 50M+ driving license holders without oversight  —  Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new criminal justice bill will put all UK drivers on ‘permanent police lineup’
Moneycontrol:
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”  —  Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama:
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Baltimore Banner parent The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism acquires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Block Communications to run it as a nonprofit

Ali Lyon / City A.M.:
Axel Springer says it received approval from the UK Department for Culture, Media, and Sport to proceed with its £575M deal to acquire the Telegraph Media Group

Caroline Davies / The Guardian:
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