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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like new billing tools, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and the District of Columbia — Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
In Google's $700M settlement in Utah et al v. Google, an estimated 102M US Android users will split $630M and an additional $70M will go to other claims — Google will pay consumers from all 50 states to settle a lawsuit over its app store practices — Tens of millions of U.S. consumers …
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| David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: |
Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including an apparent upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony agreement — The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes - Wolverine game files included.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to halt Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling under US review until December 25 — In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a software fix to avoid an Apple Watch ban in the US over Masimo's blood oxygen patents; Masimo says “the hardware needs to change” — - Company submitting software workaround to customs agency — Apple engineers are racing to develop fixes for patent issue
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator — A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars … | Reuters: |
Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Comcast's Xfinity discloses hackers breached a Citrix server in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
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| Bloomberg: |
TSMC Chair Mark Liu plans to retire in 2024, replaced by CEO C.C. Wei, set to become one of the most influential executives in tech; shareholders must approve — - C. C. Wei will become chairman of Apple's chipmaking partner — Wei is poised to lead the world's most advanced chipmaker
More: Reuters, eeNews Europe, Nikkei Asia, Taiwan Semiconductor …, CNBC, and TechPowerUp
| Reuters: |
Iran says a cyberattack disrupted services at ~70% of gas stations nationwide; a hacking group that Iran accuses of having links to Israel claims responsibility — Iran's Oil Minister Javad Owji on Monday confirmed that a nationwide disruption to petrol stations was caused by a cyberattack.
More: The Times of Israel, Associated Press, CSO, Jerusalem Post, Silicon Republic, Infosecurity, Cybernews.com, Cyber Daily, TechRadar, and Al Jazeera. LinkedIn: Mihoko Matsubara
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The FBI, UK, Germany, and more seize the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang ALPHV, or BlackCat; the US also seized “several” other ALPHV sites — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
The US DOT fines Southwest Airlines $140M, in addition to customer refunds, for the December 2022 meltdown caused by its antiquated flight scheduling software — Wrist, meet slap: Only a quarter will be paid to Treasury, the rest is vouchers and credits — The US Department of Transportation has … | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden's EO — The computer scientist says it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests
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| Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Appin co-founder Rajat Khare used law firms to threaten US, UK, Swiss, Indian, and Luxembourg outlets to kill stories about the hack-for-hire industry — A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to … | Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Electric Coin, Zcash's main developer, says that Zooko Wilcox, the project's creator, will step down as CEO, and names former SVP of Growth Josh Swihart as CEO — The overseeing board of Zcash, known for its privacy-oriented “shielded” addresses or “z-addresses,” credited Wilcox with delivery of …
More: Electric Coin Company, zooko, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
| Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press: |
Tech group NetChoice, representing TikTok, Meta, X, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media — A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children … | Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta should not have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited case — Meta Platform's (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Game preservationists are digging into a 1.2TB cache of TestFlight data, from roughly 2012 to 2015, found on the Internet Archive, containing a ton of old apps — A huge number of old mobile games and apps from TestFlight, which lets developers share in-development versions of their apps … | New York Times: |
How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and numerous middlemen to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy — Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained …
X: @ldrogen and @auroraalmendral
| Bloomberg: |
As NYC's $17.96+ minimum wage law for delivery apps begins, Uber and DoorDash update their apps to make tipping harder and, workers say, reduce their hours — - Base hourly pay of $17.96 prompts companies to pass on costs — City aims for smaller, more efficient, better paid workforceSponsor Posts
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