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April 23, 2022, 11:30 PM

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more  —  Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
James Vincent / The Verge:
The EU's DSA forces Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, handle misinformation during crises, and more  —  The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world  —  The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
As the EU finalizes the DMA and the DSA, a report reveals Big Tech companies' last-minute lobbying to limit crackdowns on surveillance advertising and more  —  A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc's digital rulebook.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a patched RCE flaw in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced ALAC in 2011  —  Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file.  —  Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers …
Shruti Shekar / Android Central:
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a restaurant in the US, with a minimalist design in black and a proprietary Google band  —  If this is the final design of the Google Pixel Watch, then many of the rumors have come true.  —  What you need to know
The Intercept:
Leaked sales pitch: US government contractor Anomaly Six, which says it can track ~3B phones in real time, demoed its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA staff  —  In partnership with  —  In the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss …
Joy Press / Vanity Fair:
Streamers are acting like network TV, as they pull back on edgy content and seek “elevated broadcasts”, like sitcoms, under financial pressure and competition  —  Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution.
Bill Curry / Globe and Mail:
Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing  —  Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator …
Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal:
Research: hackers have stolen ~$2.9B worth of crypto across 37 hacks in 38 weeks since August, which is almost on par with the $3.2B stolen in all of 2021  —  Hacker steals $182 million over the weekend, the fifth largest hack on record  —  Cryptocurrency hacks are getting bigger.
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Q&A with Dave Limp, Amazon SVP of devices and services, on how ambient computing can enhance the world, Fire Phone's failure, Alexa shopping, Astro, and more  —  When Amazon launched Alexa — its voice-activated virtual assistant — in 2014, it was met with scepticism.

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