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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU rejects Zuckerberg's claim that “Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship”, saying it only requires illegal content removal  —  The European Commission rejected on Wednesday Meta (META.O) chief Mark Zuckerberg's assertion that European Union …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says Meta's moderation changes are “deeply troubling”, and Mastodon will take action on Threads accounts violating Mastodon's policies  —  Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid  —  from the misinformation-about-disinformation dept  —  When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics …
Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms handle content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe  —  As platform scales back moderation in line with conservative demands in the U.S., it still has to maneuver through stiffer regulations in Europe and elsewhere.
Bloomberg:
Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”  —  - Meta CEO accused fact checkers of bias and destroying trust  — Facebook and Instagram continue fact-checking outside US
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Mosseri says Meta is adding recommendations of political content on Instagram and Threads; Threads' control setting for political content will get three options
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will phase “civic content” back in, seemingly a reversal of earlier decisions against proactively recommending political content
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Meta says it will launch a test in Germany, France, and the US to post eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace, after the EU fined it €798M for abusing dominance  —  - Company was fined €798 million by EU for abusing dominance  — Meta still challenging landmark fine through EU courts
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that MediaTek will be able to sell the CPU chip that the two companies unveiled for Project DIGITS, Nvidia's new desktop computer  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that MediaTek (2454.TW) will be able to sell the desktop central processor chip …
Bernadette Christina / Reuters:
Indonesia says Apple still can't sell its iPhone 16 in the country, despite a deal to build a local production facility, as it hasn't met domestic content rules  —  Apple (AAPL.O) still cannot sell its iPhone 16 in Indonesia despite striking a deal to build a local production facility there …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Microsoft open sources the 14B-parameter AI model Phi-4 and its weights, available on Hugging Face under a MIT License, after releasing it in December 2024  —  Even as its big investment partner OpenAI continues to announce more powerful reasoning models such as the latest o3 series, Microsoft is not sitting idly by.
Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg:
Major quantum computing stocks, up 300%+ in the past year, fell on January 7 after Jensen Huang said “very useful” quantum computers are likely decades away  —  The shares of IonQ Inc. and other companies linked to quantum computing tumbled in premarket trading on Wednesday …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Akamai plans to end its CDN services in China on June 30, 2026, moving clients to an Akamai CDN outside China unless they switch to a local option like Tencent  —  Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it's finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom.
More: Akamai.  Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Sources: Movement Labs, which is building a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain, is set to raise a $100M Series B at a ~$3B valuation, after raising $38M in April 2024  —  Movement Labs, a San Francisco-based software developing team building a layer-2 blockchain on Ethereum, is close to wrapping …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google says Nest hubs, Chromecasts, Google TV devices on Android 14, and more can now control Matter devices locally, and opens its Home APIs to all developers  —  One of the key changes Matter is bringing to the smart home is a standardized way to enable local control of smart devices.
Reuters:
In a first, an EU court fines the EC €400 for breaching its own data protection rules by transferring a citizen's data to the US via “Sign in with Facebook”  —  In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AWS says it plans to invest “at least” $11B to expand cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular US state for data centers  —  On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Whatnot, which lets users sell comics and other items through live videos, raised a $265M Series E at a $4.97B valuation, and says its annual GMV passed $3B  —  Whatnot, the platform that allows users to sell items such as trading cards, comics, and sneakers through live videos …
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Do Kwon's criminal fraud trial in the US is scheduled for January 2026; prosecutors expect challenges accessing encrypted devices and translating communications  —  NEW YORK, NY — Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwon's criminal fraud trial in the U.S. has been tentatively scheduled …
Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Sources: TSMC's Arizona plant is now producing systems-in-package for the Apple Watch, almost certainly the S9, in addition to the A16 processor for iPhones  —  I've finally landed on a name for this publication: Culpium.  Further publishing announcements at the end.
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim

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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: some WBD investors warm to David Ellison and his top team, after they were reassured that Paramount's Middle Eastern financing is secure

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show

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A profile of Brian Glenn, Real America's Voice WH reporter and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who is giving up his WH gig after the Trump-MTG split

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Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In a statement with his family, Sam Altman denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister Ann in a lawsuit and says she faces “mental health challenges”
Bloomberg:
Samsung reports preliminary Q4 operating profit of ~$4.5B, vs. est. of ~$6.2B, and revenue of ~$51.7B, below est., due to hefty R&D and capacity expansion costs
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, after unveiling it in 2023
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