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September 13, 2022, 5:20 AM

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The Verge:

Sources: Google canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop slated for 2023 and dissolved the team building it, as part of recent cost-cutting measures — Google is getting out of the laptop game — Google has canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop and dissolved the team responsible for building it.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

Alongside iOS 16, Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7 to fix the eighth actively exploited 0-day since January 2022 — Apple has released security updates to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability used in attacks against iPhones and Macs since the start of the year.

David Pierce / The Verge:

iOS 16 review: lock screen widgets, while not interactive, are an instant upgrade and the myriad other changes make the iPhone more functional and easier to use — The story of iOS 16 is all the things that your phone does when you're not using it. Apple has been saying for years that we need …

More: The Keyword, Apple, MacRumors, MacStories, 9to5Mac, MSPoweruser, Apple Support, CNBC, Michael Tsai, BetaNews, MacStories, MobileSyrup, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, AppleInsider, Six Colors, iMore, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Android Police, iMore, USA Today, PCMag, BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacRumors, Laptop Mag, and Appleosophy

Tweets: @brandonbutch, @samifathi_, @tarasmi, @gregheo, @lookitsron, @viticci, @joannastern, @jppullen, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, and @pierce

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 16 has an option to remove Rapid Security Responses, security fixes that don't require a full iOS update and by default are installed automatically — Apple in iOS 16 added a new Rapid Security Response feature that's meant to make it quicker and easier for the company to deploy security improvements …

More: The Verge, Apple Support, 9to5Mac, Digit, and SlashGear

Tweets: @aaronp613 and @gartenberg

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Apple plans to add a Clean Energy Charging feature to iOS 16 in 2022, optimizing iPhone charging times for when the power grid is using cleaner energy sources

More: MacRumors, How-To Geek, Phandroid, XDA Developers, TidBITS, and iThinkDifferent

Tweets: @rsgnl, @maxwinebach, and @alexguichet

Brian Fung / CNN:

US Senate Judiciary Committee leaders send Parag Agrawal a letter with 12+ questions about Twitter's security practices and request responses by September 26 — US lawmakers sent Twitter more than a dozen questions about its security practices Monday, on the eve of a company whistleblower's testimony …

More: Washington Post, Financial Times, Associated Press, Engadget, Livemint, and Reuters. Tweets: @bendreyfuss

Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters:

Sources: a majority of Twitter's shareholders voted in favor of the $44B sale to Elon Musk, whose $54.20-per-share deal looks pricey in the current environment

More: Coinspeaker, City A.M., MarketWatch, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Slate, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @newstalk780koh, @tuviae, @vermontgmg, and @gregbensinger

Wall Street Journal:

Internal Meta research: Instagram users spend 17.6M hours/day on Reels vs. 197.8M hours/day on TikTok; ~1/3 of Reels are recycled posts from other platforms — Reels faces formidable competition from the leading short-video platform; creators follow the views

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:

The new Apple Watches' S8 chip appears to have the same CPU as the S6 and S7, which may explain why Apple has lately only used the S5 or earlier for comparisons — The S8 chip in the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and second-generation Apple Watch SE features the same CPU as the S6 and S7 chips …

More: XDA Developers, Wccftech, Wired, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Lifewire, How-To Geek, Gearrice, The Apple Post, The Mac Observer, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gadget Tendency, 9to5Mac, and Appleosophy

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @vadimyuryev, and @appleswupdates

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Canalys: Samsung passed Huawei to become the world's second-largest smartwatch maker in Q2 2022, shipping 2.8M units, up 58% YoY, on strong Galaxy Watch 4 sales

More: Patently Apple, Gizchina, and The Verge

Tweets: @appletesterrus, @appletesterrus, and @appletesterrus

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:

The US SEC charges VMware with misleading investors by obscuring financial performance; VMware will pay $8M to settle without denying or admitting the findings — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday it has charged cloud computing company VMware Inc (VMW.N) …

More: The Economic Times, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, VMware, iTWire, SiliconANGLE, and iTnews

Tweets: @secgov and @quinnypig

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

CEO Kyle Vogt says that Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona, “in the next 90 days and before the end of 2022” — GM's self-driving technology unit Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin, Texas and Phoenix …

More: The Verge, Digital Trends, and The Last Driver License Holder

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:

Robert Hallock, AMD's director of technical marketing and a public-facing figure on Reddit, Discord, YouTube, and others, is leaving the company after 12 years — The director of technical marketing is stepping down. — Robert Hallock, AMD's director of technical marketing …

More: Club386 and TechPowerUp

Financial Times:

Fears of Chinese retaliation and regional tensions are hampering US efforts to rally South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan behind the “Chip 4” semiconductor alliance — Internal tensions and concerns over China undermine proposed grouping with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan

More: Associated Press. Tweets: @huoncurtis and @edwardwhitenz

Dade Hayes / Deadline:

HBO and HBO Max won 37 awards in the 74th Emmy Awards, while Netflix won 26, Hulu eight, Apple TV+ seven, NBC seven, Disney+ six, and Amazon Prime Video six — The combined HBO and HBO Max surged past rival Netflix in this year's overall Emmys tally, winning a dozen prizes tonight for a total …

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Washington Post:

More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM

Wall Street Journal:

The US DHS says it is considering taking part in a reality show where immigrants compete for US citizenship, an idea that was pitched by producer Rob Worsoff

Advanced Television:

Dailymotion acquires Archery, the company that develops Mojo, an AI-assisted video creation and editing app, which has been downloaded 50M+ times

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Hasan Chowdhury / Insider:

Northzone, the European VC firm that backed Spotify and Klarna, has raised a €1B fund, its largest to date, and will allocate ~40% to later-stage investments

More: The Block, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and Sifted

Jason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly:

How Apple's Cooperative R&D Agreement on digital IDs with the TSA in March 2019 could disadvantage its rivals in developing mobile identity credentials

Tweets: @mikulaja, @mdudas, @mdudas, @joetourville1, @nikmilanovic, @sytaylor, @lmatem, @arturo_p_a, and @alexh_johnson

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:

Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $11.4B, total cloud revenue up 45% YoY to $3.6B, and health data provider Cerner, acquired in June 2022, generated $1.4B

More: Oracle, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Investing.com, Morningstar, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, CNBC, and SiliconANGLE

Cade Metz / New York Times:

Uber pays New Jersey $100M for four years of back taxes plus interest, after the state said the company had misclassified its drivers as independent contractors

More: Reuters. Tweets: @terrigerstein, @chrisopfer, @rkgwork, and @nytwa

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

Internal memo: Amazon VP of Workplace Health and Safety Heather MacDougall is leaving the company on October 7, 2022; MacDougall joined Amazon in April 2019

Thanks:@mattrosoff

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:

London-based Cledara, a management service giving companies control of and insights into their SaaS subscriptions, raised a $20M Series A led by CommerzVentures

More: Silicon Canals, FinSMEs, and Tech.eu. Tweets: @cledara

Charles Mandel / BetaKit:

Goldsky, a crypto infrastructure startup helping companies aggregate and process on-chain data, raised a $20M seed led by Felicis Ventures and Dragonfly Capital

More: The Block. Tweets: @betakit

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

Meta plans to give control of its PyTorch AI framework to the Linux Foundation's new PyTorch Foundation that includes AMD, AWS, Google, Meta, Azure, and Nvidia

More: Meta AI, Meta, Neowin, Protocol, PYMNTS.com, Ars Technica, Axios, The Register, Adweek, VentureBeat, Linux Foundation, BigTechWire, HPCwire, PyTorch Blog, and Engadget

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Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:

Nintendo says Splatoon 3 for Switch sold a record 3.45M copies in Japan in its first three days, nearly 600K above Animal Crossing: New Horizons' first week

More: Nintendo, TechSpot, Nintendo Life, Reuters, Game Rant, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, IGN, Kotaku, GamesRadar, Twinfinite, VentureBeat, Polygon, Nintendo Everything, GameSpot, Forbes, and GamingBolt

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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:

In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company's decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Zoom Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and Meet

More: Zoom Blog, The Verge, TechRadar, CIO Dive, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com

Tweets: @zoom, @harrymccracken, and @harrymccracken. Thanks:@technologizer

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Roku refreshes its $30 Roku Express streaming player, launches a $130 Roku Wireless Bass subwoofer, and details Roku OS 11.5, including a short-form content hub

More: 2PM, US - The Official Roku Blog, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Roku, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget, The Streamable, Pocket-lint, CNET, Pocket-lint, 9to5Toys, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @_rachelbraun