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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple revises its US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, but will charge a 27% commission, or 12% for small business developers — In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple's appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has announced a handful …
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| Engadget: |
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min — We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
FCC filings seem to indicate Apple Vision Pro will not support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, or Wi-Fi 7 — If you were hoping for Ultra Wideband and Wi-Fi 6E or 7 chips in Apple Vision Pro, well, those are very specific expectations. Also, Apple Vision Pro appears to lack those chips, based on the official FCC filing from today.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A study monitoring product review queries on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo for a year suggests that search engines are losing the cat-and-mouse game of SEO spam — “The majority of high-ranking product reviews in the result pages of commercial search engines use affiliate marketing …
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| Wired: |
Researchers describe a GPU memory vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate data from some devices with Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, and other chips — Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA and the FBI warn that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet to steal credentials for AWS, Microsoft 365, and other cloud apps — CISA and the FBI warned today that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet focused on cloud credential theft …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The US Treasury and IRS say they are not enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report the receipt of digital assets worth $10K+ within 15 days of receipt — The tax law would require business-related crypto transactions over $10,000 to be reported like cash, but it's not quite ready yet.| Financial Times: |
CoinShares: US bitcoin ETFs had inflows of $984M in the first two days of trading, including $508M for BlackRock; Grayscale had $579M of outflows — Grayscale has outflows of $579mn as investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products — Bitcoin exchange traded funds …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Internet Watch Foundation: over 100K webpages featured self-generated CSAM in the past year, up 66% YoY; a record 275,655 webpages in total had CSAM, up 8% YoY — Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption
More: The Independent, Sky News, and The Internet Watch Foundation
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Magic Leap's CEO and CTO talk about the future of the company, as a filing shows Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has invested $590M in debt funding — Magic Leap announced in a filing that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has poured another $590 million in debt funding into the mixed reality headset maker.
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| Financial Times: |
Lexington, Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage's Pinegrove, and StepStone are raising billions to buy stakes in VC-backed tech startups via secondary share sales — Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates — Investment firms are raising billions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz's CEO and other shareholders plan to sell 9M shares for $873M; Kaspi.kz's Super App had 13.5M MAUs in 2023 — At current prices, the shares would be valued at $873 million, according to the company's filing Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.| Nick Huber / Financial Times: |
Omdia: the healthcare sector suffered more cyberattacks than any other sector between January and September 2023, with 241 publicly disclosed attacks — The vast amount of information held by health services makes them a prime target for cyber criminals — An increase in cyber attacks … Sponsor Posts
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