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Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits — Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday said it will roll back requirements that U.S. suppliers and staffing firms pay their employees …

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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines — Apple's (AAPL.O) offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon …

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Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX — - Pact would release crypto exchange co-founder from claims — In return he would help them pursue celebrities who pushed FTX

More: Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, CoinGape, The Block, and Cointelegraph

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed — A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining a street in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 1, 2021.

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George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets — US stock markets suffer their worst run since October 2022 as investors pull back from AI bets — Nvidia's share price plunged …

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David Cassel / The New Stack:

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more — SEATTLE-Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America in Seattle.

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week — Adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take measures …

More: AVN Industry News and European Commission

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Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company — OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles in pursuit of profits is nothing more than …

More: The Decoder. X: @business

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough” — Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk's takeover, is shutting down.

More: Post., TechCrunch, and Daring Fireball

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Alex Ritman / Variety:

In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:

As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: Tom's Hardware, TechNode, and ExtremeTech

Reuters:

China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March

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New York Times:

Sources describe Nigeria's detention of two Binance officials, including US compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which had raised $50M+ and uses AI to personalize websites, a source says for “eight figures”

X: @geofftroberts, @leinwand, @callmevlad, @webflow, @coreygmoen, @gyalif, @j8kes, and @amirmxt. LinkedIn: Daniel Brown

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:

Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

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