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March 25, 2024, 8:35 PM

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US and the UK sanction a Wuhan-based company linked to the Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 for targeting critical infrastructure organizations  —  The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK says Chinese state-affiliated actors were responsible for a “malicious cyber campaign” on the country's Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022  —  LONDON — The U.S. and U.K. on Monday accused hackers linked with the Chinese state of being behind “malicious” …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model  —  The trio of Big Tech giants are the first to face full investigations under bloc's new Digital Markets Act
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal  —  A U.S. judge on Monday dismiss X Corp's lawsuit against a nonprofit group that has criticized a rise in hate speech …
Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:
Ripple says the SEC plans to release a public brief on Tuesday seeking $2B in fines and penalties in its case against Ripple over sales of the XRP crypto token  —  The regulator is slated to release a public brief on Tuesday, Stuart Alderoty, Ripple's chief legal officer, said in a separate post on X on Monday.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts and age verification for many websites  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) just signed into law HB 3, a bill that will give parents of teens under 16 more control …
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg:
Nigeria files tax evasion charges against Binance and executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, detained since February; reports say Anjarwalla escaped  —  - Nadeem Anjarwalla escaped on Friday during prayers at a mosque  — Two Binance execs had been charged to court for tax evasion
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Sources: iOS 18 will give iPhone users greater control over their Home Screen app arrangement, including the ability to create blank spaces, rows, and columns  —  iOS 18 will give iPhone users greater control over Home Screen app icon arrangement, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify adds online courses from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso, covering music, business, creativity, and health, as a UK-only experiment  —  Spotify's UK users are getting access to a fourth category of content to sit alongside its existing library of songs, podcasts and audiobooks: online courses.
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
UXL Foundation, backed by Google, Intel, and others, plans to build tools to power multiple types of AI accelerator chips and break Nvidia's CUDA dominance  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing artificial-intelligence chips that have become the lifeblood powering …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on why federation is the future of social media, Threads' fediverse integration, monetization, composable moderation, and more  —  The head of Threads and Mastodon competitor Bluesky on why she thinks decentralization is the way forward in a post-Twitter internet.

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