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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
An EU court backs the European Commission's decision to fine Google over Android antitrust breaches but trims the fine from €4.3B to €4.1B; Google can appeal — Google lost most of the first round of its battle to topple a record 4.3 billion-euro ($4.3 billion) …
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| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
A South Korean court issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and five others located in Singapore, following the collapse of LUNA and UST — A court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency ecosystem …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Patreon cuts ~17% of its staff, or 80 positions, and closes offices in Dublin and Berlin; the company raised $155M in April 2021 at a $4B valuation — The creator subscription company Patreon is the latest company to be affected by a long line of tech layoffs.| Brady Dale / Axios: |
The US Treasury clarifies its Tornado Cash guidance and tells users who used the service for lawful transactions can apply for a license to withdraw their funds — New guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control provides a roadmap for people who used Tornado Cash …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
In an email to developers, Apple says that new App Store ad placements will be available for the 2022 holiday season — - Apple is planning to release new ad “placements” as soon as the holiday season of this year. — The new ad units represent a significant expansion in Apple's advertising inventory …
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| Reuters: |
South Korea's privacy regulator fines Google ~$50M and Meta ~$22M for failing to obtain users' consent when collecting behavioral data to show tailored ads — South Korea levied fines running into millions of dollars on Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O) … | Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info — Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko's former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to use TSMC's N3E 3nm chipmaking process, expected in H2 2023, for its A17 chips in some 2023 iPhones and its M3 chips for Macs — Move will mark industry's first adoption of updated production technology — TAIPEI — Apple aims to be the first company to use …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is being actively exploited, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
EA unveils EA AntiCheat, a kernel-level anti-cheat system for some PC games, launching September 23 to take on cheat developers building kernel-level exploits — Electronic Arts is determined to keep cheaters at bay. The company has developed a kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
A NY federal judge dismisses the state AGs' claim that Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue but rules the ad tech antitrust lawsuit against Google can proceed — An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.'s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: after its funds performed poorly, SoftBank considers launching a third Vision Fund; Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49B invested — Despite massive losses, Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son has tried to chart a new path for the tech investment giant| The Verge: |
PlayStation VR2 hands-on: easy to set up, a joy to use, the OLED display looks great, refreshed Sense controllers are an improvement, gameplay is fun, and more — And it's pretty good … Sony's PlayStation VR2 may not be coming out until next year, but after months of drip-feeding news …
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After surprising CPI data, the Nasdaq closes down 5.16%, Nvidia down 9.47%, Meta down 9.37%, Coinbase down 8.84%, Amazon down 7.06%; BTC fell 9%+ in 24 hours — Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a key August inflation report came in hotter than expected, hurting investor optimism …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.
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Tweets: @messenger, @varunmayya, @sulamatraore, @ldignan, @sulamatraore, @venkatananth, @evanhamilton, @vader7x, and @farokhshahabi
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Google signs a cooperative research and development agreement with the US NIST to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices with open-source designs — Chips used to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices oftentimes have a large price tag, posing a big obstacle for innovation.
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NIST, The Register, Fierce Electronics, SiliconANGLE, CRN, and FedScoop
Tweets: @commercegov, @research_purdue, and @nist
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
SWIFT tests a blockchain project with crypto startup Symbiont to drive “efficiencies in communicating significant corporate events”, like dividends and mergers — SWIFT, the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to convey instructions on tens of millions … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Dig Security, which helps companies protect and manage cloud data, raised a $34M Series A led by SignalFire, bringing its total funding to $45M — Data security startup Dig Security Solutions Inc. said today it has raised $34 million in new funding to accelerate go-to-market efforts and deliver new enhancements to secure cloud data.
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| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, and others announce cryptocurrency exchange EDX Markets, leveraging tech from US stock market MEMX — The exchange will be led by Jamil Nazarali, a former senior executive at trading giant Citadel Securities.
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