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September 28, 2022, 11:05 AM

Top News

Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple tells suppliers to pull back from increasing the supply of iPhone 14 models by ~6M units in H2, instead aiming for 90M units, on par with 2021  —  Apple Inc. is backing off plans to increase production of its new iPhones this year after an anticipated surge in demand failed to materialize …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Apple confirms it removed apps from VK, which owns Mail.ru and Russia's largest social network VKontakte, citing UK sanctions; the apps are still on Google Play  —  The translated statement says “some VK applications are blocked by Apple” but that it will “continue to develop and support iOS applications.”
Financial Times:
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Source: FTX is in the process of raising a $1B round, which hasn't closed, as Sam Bankman-Fried considers bidding for bankrupt lender Celsius Network's assets  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire who has been bailing out distressed industry players in recent months …
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg:
The US SEC and CFTC fine 16 financial firms $1.1B and $710M in penalties, respectively, for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps  —  US regulators reached settlements with a dozen banks in a sprawling probe into how global financial firms failed to monitor employees' communications …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Tumblr introduces “community labels” to let users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; its content rules remain unchanged  —  Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel  —  It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Milan-based Satispay, an independent payment network that bypasses banks and credit card companies, raised a €320M Series D led by Addition at a €1B+ valuation  —  More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers …
Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk:
Luxury auction house Christie's launches Christie's 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for NFT art in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial  —  Christie's 3.0 has teamed up with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial to sell NFT artwork on Ethereum.  —  Luxury auction house Christie's …
Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer:
Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance  —  That's the same MSRP as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 it goes up against, but Intel says that the green team's card isn't actually that cheap.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
The latest iPadOS 16 developer beta makes Stage Manager work with older A12X and A12Z iPads, but does not support extending the display to an external monitor  —  Probably the biggest change Apple announced with iPadOS 16 earlier this year is Stage Manager, a totally new multitasking system …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolls out narration voiceovers for Shorts on iOS, a popular feature on TikTok  —  YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok by adding loads of new features that are popular on the other app.  Today, the Google-owned platform is rolling out a narration voiceover feature on iOS, a tool that is already often used on TikTok.
More: YouTube
Financial Times:
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Adobe's Scott Belsky says the company plans to integrate Figma without changing its pricing or UI, add support for other Adobe tools, and more  —  Adobe Inc. plans to add technology from its creative software portfolio to Figma without tweaking pricing or simplicity after its acquisition …

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