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The FTC sues to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, charging that the deal announced in January may suppress Microsoft's gaming competitors — The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
A look at the reaction to Apple's E2EE news: the FBI is “deeply concerned” and says the change “hinders” its work while the EFF and others applaud the feature — Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data …
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| Kollen Post / The Block: |
The US Senate Banking Committee calls on SBF to testify on December 14, a day after a similar House hearing; House lawmakers also threatened him with a subpoena — - The Senate committee wants Sam Bankman-Fried to testify the day after he's been told to testify in the House of Representatives … | New York Times: |
Sources: US prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated TerraUSD and LUNA markets, leading to the cryptocurrencies' collapse in May 2022 — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried and his hedge fund orchestrated trades in a way that led to the collapse of two cryptocurrencies in May.
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars” — Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Debunking claims on Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment — Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue's $8 per month price to $11 per month on iOS, likely due to Apple's 30% App Store cut, and $7 per month on the web — Twitter has informed some employees that it plans to change the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $7 if users pay …
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the crypto exchange's 2022 revenue to be half “or less” of the ~$7B the company generated in 2021, as coin prices fall — Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said the cryptocurrency exchange's revenue is set to be cut … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like photo and video feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, initially to select customers in the US — The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format
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| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
Some NFTs minted on FTX now show blank images instead of the original art as the metadata points to an FTX.US domain used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm's collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for new smartphones, tablets, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging — We finally have a final official deadline for when new phones sold in the European Union — including future iPhones …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped dismantle zero COVID-19 policies — Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou warned that the government's strict policies would threaten its position in global supply chains
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at CoinDesk's blockbuster Alameda scoop that led to FTX's collapse and bankruptcy, adding to CoinDesk parent company Digital Currency Group's woes — What happens when a story has impact? … Depending on how you look at it, this is either a cautionary tale about how small and entwined …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Cameo launches Cameo Kids, offering personalized videos from animated characters like Thomas the Tank Engine, Blippi, CoComelon's Nina, and Santa for $25 to $30 — Cameo today launched Cameo Kids, its new video messaging service that features personalized videos from popular animated characters … | Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Dyson announces the $949 Dyson Zone headphones, offering active noise cancellation and filters to block unwanted airborne particles, for preorder in March 2023 — The company's first audio product promises to eliminate both unwanted noise and unwanted air particles. — Alerts
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| Fadeke Adegbuyi / Every: |
Some Twitch streamers are migrating to other services, burned out by earnings coupled to hours streamed, parasocial pressure from subscribers, and more — In October 2022, popular streamer Sweet Anita posted a message in her Discord community and then to Twitter: she needed to take a break from Twitch.| Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: |
Disney rolls out its ad-supported Disney+ tier for $7.99 per month after signing up 100+ advertisers; the ad-free tier now costs $10.99 per month, up from $7.99 — The overhaul of Disney+ comes after a slowdown in subscriber growth for streaming services — Walt Disney Co. DIS 0.68%increase …
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Tweets: @jbflint, @business, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia, @tim_bays, @norock, and @sarafischer
| Jamshed Avari / Gadgets 360: |
Q&A with Intel EVP Raja Koduri on bringing Arc GPUs to India, Arc's roadmap and development constraints, GPU design cycles, PC form factors, and more — Having recently launched Intel's first discrete GPU lineup for gamers, Raja Koduri was in India to chat about PC gaming, AI, and future plans.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return $50M of crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts — US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ordered Celsius Network LLC to return cryptocurrency that never touched the lender's interest-bearing accounts to its customers.| Inbar Preiss / The Block: |
The European Commission proposes requiring that digital asset providers report transactions of EU-based clients to tax authorities starting on January 1, 2026 — - Companies offering EU residents crypto services will need to report on transactions to tax authorities.
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CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, European Commission, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, Decrypt, and Micky
| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to merge Waze's 500+ employees into its Maps group starting on December 9; Waze will remain a standalone service but CEO Neha Parikh plans to leave — Search giant to keep navigation apps separate, says no layoffs are planned — How Google Remapped the World: The Tech Behind
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Silicon Valley Business …, The Verge, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, BGR, and Engadget. Tweets: @cfishman
| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
The Court of Justice of the EU rules Google must delete search results about claimants who can prove the information in the content is “manifestly inaccurate” — Claimants have to prove the information about them is ‘manifestly inaccurate.’ — People in Europe can get Google …
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Reuters, Engadget, Silicon Republic, CoinGape, and Associated Press
Tweets: @johnrobb and @dominictsz
| Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: |
Hong Kong will require virtual asset service providers to pass strict anti-money laundering guidelines and investor protection laws from June 1, 2023 — The new legislation will bring a licensing regime for the virtual asset service providers requiring them to pass strict AML and money laundering guidelines.
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