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January 24, 2022, 9:10 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; LinkedIn shows Apple car exec Joe Bass has left for Meta  —  Apple Inc. is nearing its first launch event of the year, with a new iPhone SE and iPad on tap.  Also: The company takes another hit …
Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv:
EU Parliament passed Digital Services Act, including provisions banning targeted ads based on highly sensitive personal data, limiting dark patterns, and more  —  A large majority of MEPs voted in favour of the Digital Services Act on Thursday (20 January), after plenary amendments introduced important changes to the text.
Wall Street Journal:
How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US  —  Longstanding disagreements between federal agencies over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the days leading to the 5G debut
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google, alleging it deceived users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014  —  The complaints allege the company has deployed ‘dark patterns,’ design tricks that can subtly influence users' decisions in ways that are advantageous for a business
Elliptic Blog:
Research: an OpenSea bug is being exploited to purchase NFTs at below-market rates before flipping them, netting $1M+ across at least eight NFTs in 12 hours  —  A bug on NFT marketplace OpenSea is being exploited to purchase NFTs at well below market value.
Kirsty Needham / Reuters:
Australian PM Scott Morrison lost control of his official WeChat account months ago, while the still-active account now promotes Chinese life in Australia  —  Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party lost access to his official WeChat social media account months ago …
Frank Chaparro / The Block:
DeFi traders complain about network instability that hit Solana this weekend, four months after its last outage; Solana pushes update to fix “the worst effects”  —  Jim Greco, like many traders who have had to deal with the Solana network's outage over the last few days, is annoyed.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UK's DCMS committee says the Online Safety Bill falls short on protecting free speech, tackling illegal and harmful content in online services, and more  —  Another UK parliamentary committee has weighed in on the government's controversial plan to regulate Internet content with a broadbrush focus on ‘safety’.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spectrum Labs, which helps online services detect and remove toxic content in ~40 languages in real time, raises $32M led by Intel Capital  —  Two years into the pandemic, online conversations are for many of us still the primary interactions that we are having every day, and we are collectively having billions of them.
Shaji Mathew / Bloomberg:
Riyadh-based Elm, a digital security company owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, seeks to raise as much as $820M from an IPO  —  Elm Co., a digital security firm owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, is seeking to raise as much $820 million from an IPO as the kingdom pushes ahead …

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