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Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple around €500M for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; in-store demo conversion rate is as high as 10% to 15% — The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting “offensive weapons” into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a “fever pitch” — Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’
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Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
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| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
How the expansion of facial recognition tech at US airports is transforming the way travelers move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane — Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them … | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia is mandating that Alibaba, SenseTime, and other Chinese tech companies invest in the kingdom and share expertise to secure huge deals — Alibaba and SenseTime secure huge joint ventures in Gulf Kingdom but agreements come with stringent requirements
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| Michael Crider / PCWorld: |
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9% — Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
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| Alec Russell / Financial Times: |
A look at the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating — Ukraine's entrepreneurs and engineers show how to keep going during extreme disruption — Andriy Dekhtyar was in the closing stages … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more — To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight … | Matt Barnum / Wall Street Journal: |
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