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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US appeals court pauses the ITC's Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo's patents, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban  —  Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission's import ban …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Apple resumed Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in some physical US stores on December 27; online sales are set to resume on December 28 by 3PM ET  —  You can once again buy the latest Apple Watches straight from Apple.  The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will be available again …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple hiring Stanford PhD Marcelo Lamego, who was the CTO of Masimo spinoff Cercacor, in 2013 to add Watch features sparked a fight that led to the US ban  —  Apple's hiring of a key engineer 10 years ago helped spark a fight that led its watch to be banned from the US.
New York Times:
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue  —  Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a zero-click iMessage attack that for over four years used four zero-days to hack iPhones, including dozens belonging to Kaspersky employees  —  “Triangulation” infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky.  —  Researchers on Wednesday …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon plans to start showing ads in movies and shows on Prime Video from January 29, with an option for customers to pay an extra $2.99 per month to avoid them  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Researchers develop a protocol to secure AirTags against stalking while maintaining privacy, aiming to improve on Apple's system of rotating public identifiers  —  Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy.
New York Times:
Investigation: China's Ministry of State Security intel agency uses AI and other tech to challenge the CIA; US officials describe an AI system to track US spies  —  The ambitious Ministry of State Security is deploying A.I. and other advanced technology to go toe-to-toe with the United States …
David Pan / Bloomberg:
Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding  —  - MicroStrategy's total Bitcoin holdings is now 189,150 coins … The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company run …
Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times:
Seattle-based e-commerce website Zulily, valued at ~$7B in 2014, winds down its business; in a lawsuit, Zulily accused Amazon of stifling its business  —  Once an e-commerce star, online retailer Zulily will liquidate its inventory to pay its creditors as it winds down.
Washington Post:
Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks  —  NEW DELHI — A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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