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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 …
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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.”
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Cloudflare releases Turnstile, a “privacy-preserving” CAPTCHA alternative that tests the browser, not the user, through JavaScript-based challenges, in beta — The company calls it Turnstile, and it's designed to spare us from performing those mundane click-the-traffic-light kinds … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission proposes the AI Liability Directive, seeking to make it easier to sue the makers of drones, robots, and other AI-based products — The European Commission on Wednesday proposed rules making it easier for individuals and companies to sue makers of drones …
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In a hearing, Twitter says Elon Musk's consultants estimated spam accounts at 5%-11% of users and Musk didn't share Signal texts, including with Marc Andreessen — Social media group seeks sanctions as billionaire attempts to pull out of $44bn takeover deal
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| 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 …
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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 …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Verily's opioid addiction rehab clinic in Dayton, Ohio, which was meant to highlight a futuristic approach but went low-tech to treat ~5,200 patients — Christopher Boggs started smoking pot in his teens, moved on to cocaine, and finally settled on opioids, which allowed him to evade …
Tweets: @jenn_elias, @miller7, @byjulialove, and @mhbergen
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
OpenAI plans to remove the waitlist for DALL-E today, giving anyone immediate access; Sam Altman says a public release is an essential step for safe development — None of these photos were taken by a camera. — All of these images were created by the artificial intelligence text …
Tweets: @austinj, @nitashatiku, and @kantrowitz
| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Coral, which is building an “xNFT” wallet called Backpack for accessing DeFi apps and assets across blockchains, raised $20M led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto — - Coral, known for creating Solana developer framework Anchor, has raised a $20 million strategic funding round co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto.
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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.
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| 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 …
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Tweets: @applenews, @fastcompany, @fastcompany, @racheltobac, and @madebyuche
| 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 …
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After California became the latest state to require salary transparency in job postings, Meta, Alphabet, Disney, and others will have to comply by January 2023 — Ready or not, what your job pays is about to get a lot less private. — California, with its roughly 19 million workers …
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Netflix's password sharing crackdown sparked protests on social media in Argentina, but a source says the anger didn't translate into a mass subscriber exodus — New prices sparked outrage in Latin America, with some threatening to boycott the platform. — • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Coalesce, which helps model, clean, and govern data in Snowflake's cloud, raised a $26M Series A led by Emergence Capital, bringing its total funding to $31.92M — Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers.
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Luxury auction house Christie's launches Christie's 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for selling 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.
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Tweets: @christiesinc, @christiesinc, @spatialxr, @seanelliottoc, @richerd, @manifoldxyz, and @tropofarmer
| Financial Times: |
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart warns UK ministers against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes — Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says
Tweets: @webdevlaw, @mattnavarra, @webdevlaw, @webdevlaw, and @pt
| 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 … | 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.
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Swedish PE firm EQT plans to acquire New Jersey-based Billtrust, which offers tools for businesses to manage billing, for $1.7B in cash — Billtrust, a company developing a platform to automate the invoice-to-cash process, today announced that it agreed to be acquired by EQT …
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