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| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
To comply with the EU's DSA, TikTok plans to let users turn off personalized recommendations in For You, remove targeted ads for users aged 13 to 17, and more — Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has announced a raft of new features for European users aimed at improving compliance with incoming European Union regulations.
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| Dan Garisto / Nature: |
Scientists have so far failed to show that a South Korean team's LK-99 material is a claimed room temperature superconductor, which could transform computing — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A Korean team's claim to have discovered a superconductor …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google will face a scaled-down antitrust lawsuit over search after a judge ruled that state AGs didn't show that Google's search results harmed rivals like Yelp — - Google still faces DOJ, state suits over search contracts — Combined trial over claims set for Sept. 12 in federal court
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Coinbase asks a judge to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit, arguing that the case “falls outside the agency's delegated authority” as Coinbase doesn't trade securities — Coinbase is asking a judge to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against it.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Window Snyder, who helped secure the early internet while at Microsoft and Mozilla, and pushed Apple to enable encryption by default in its devices — Snyder has made Windows, Mac computers, iPhones, and other technologies more secure for almost 25 years.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Microsoft says it has fixed an Azure flaw that could let hackers access sensitive data, following criticism from the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable — Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain access to information managed by Azure AD …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
SoftBank sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi for fraud after investing $150M in IRL in 2021 on user metrics claims; IRL allegedly paid to fill the site with bots — SoftBank sued former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi and five siblings and cousins for allegedly misleading the investor about the messaging app's growth …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
X took control of the @music account from a man who had been using it since 2007, without advanced warning or compensation; his new account handle is @musicfan — After seizing the @X account, Twitter has taken over the @music handle from an Ohio man who had been using it for over 16 years.
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| Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone revenue fell 8% YoY and 15% QoQ to under $90B in Q2 2023; Apple had a record 45% share of global smartphone revenue and an 85% share of profit — - Apple led global smartphone revenues and operating profit with record June-quarter shares of 45% and 85% respectively.
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| IDC: |
Smartphone shipments in India fell 10% YoY in H1 2023 to 64M; in Q2 2023, Apple and OnePlus grew 61% YoY each, Xiaomi fell 39% YoY, and Realme fell 30% YoY — For more information, contact: — ujoshi@idc.com — mcarreon@idc.com — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a German company to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting auto, and then mobile and IoT — - Venture will be focused on building RISC-V technology — Unnamed business will initially focus on applications for cars
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Alphabet sold nearly 90% of its Robinhood stake as of June 30, as part of paring back large positions in public companies like 23andMe and Duolingo — - Google parent Alphabet has pared back large positions in multiple publicly traded firms, including the trading platform Robinhood, 23andMe and Duolingo.| New York Times: |
A profile of TSMC founder Morris Chang, who left the US for Taiwan in 1985 to build a chip manufacturing titan now at the center of the US-China tech Cold War — At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows. — Reporting from Taipei, TaiwanSponsor Posts
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