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Several women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient — Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
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Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations — Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
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Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store — Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices — in particular, the mandatory use …
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| Tom Parsons / What Hi-Fi?: |
Interview with Apple's VP of Acoustics and head of AirPods marketing about designing AirPods 3, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth's limitations, and more — First, a qualification: Gary Geaves isn't quite “the man who made the AirPods”, and I'm sure he'd never describe himself as such.
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
CES will end a day earlier, on January 7, as an “additional” COVID-19 safety measure, after Google, Microsoft, and other big companies canceled in-person plans — The show now ends on January 7th — CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas …
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu launches Doggy DAO in beta to let users decide on crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform, and how $BONE rewards are distributed — The Dogecoin rival is aiming to provide its users with more control over crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform.| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earlier will lose key services like calling, texting, data usage, and 911 access starting January 4 — BlackBerry stopped shipping phones and tablets with its own software years ago, switching to Android in 2015 before shifting from a hardware company …
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| Tim / Droid Life: |
Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro until late January after reports of calls dropping and disconnecting — In a bit of frustrating news, Google has confirmed that it has paused the December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, aka the first Feature Drop update for the two devices.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff — And dodging NFT marketplace bans while doing it — A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody.
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| The Moscow Times: |
Russia's media regulator adds Netflix to its “audio-visual services” register, requiring it to offer 20 major Russian federal TV channels starting in March 2022 — Russia's state media watchdog will require Netflix to offer state television channels to its Russian customers … | Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: |
Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen — “Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon's co-founder Jaynti Kanani.| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla's software engineering expertise let it navigate the global chip shortage by rewriting software to use alternative chips in its cars — Electric-vehicle maker is expected to manufacture roughly 80% more vehicles this year than it did in 2020 — Tesla Inc. has emerged …
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