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May 15, 2023, 4:45 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Developer logs: Apple tests an M3 with 12 CPU cores, 18 GPU cores, and 36GB of RAM; Meta pulls Messenger from Apple Watch and launches WhatsApp on WearOS  —  As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Research finds that AI assistants may be able to influence users without them knowing, akin to humans swaying one another through collaboration and social norms  —  AI assistants may be able to change our views without our realizing it.  Says one expert: 'What's interesting here is the subtlety.'
Malcolm Harris / Wired:
A profile of Douglas Rushkoff, an internet theorist since the 1990s and a former techno-optimist who all but renounced being a digital revolution spokesperson  —  The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn.  He says it's the only human option.
Kate King / Wall Street Journal:
Nearly half of online footwear, apparel, and accessories brands tracked by Coresight have expanded to physical stores due to rising digital advertising costs  —  Warby Parker planned to sell glasses online and shake up retailing.  Now it's discovered the value of real stores—900 of them, in fact.
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Bloomberg:
Swedish cybersecurity company Truesec and experts: Russia-linked “Anonymous Sudan” is one of the most prolific hacktivist groups targeting Swedish organizations  —  Since February, a mysterious hacker group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has targeted dozens of Swedish airports …
Fortesa Latifi / Washington Post:
A look at TikTok's #medicalmoms, where mothers of disabled and chronically ill kids share parenthood journeys, raising privacy, consent, and autonomy concerns  —  When Bella was born in 2013, she didn't leave the hospital for the first two years of her life because of a combination of a rare form …
Matt Novak / Forbes:
Ahead of Turkey's May 14 presidential election, Twitter restricts access to some content “in response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available”  —  Twitter announced on Friday that it's blocking some content in Turkey ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the country.
Maysoon Khan / Associated Press:
New York AG Letitia James says three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to back the FCC's 2017 net neutrality repeal will pay $615K  —  Three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
US-based sports merchandise retailer Fanatics agrees to acquire the US assets of Australia-based online sports betting company PointsBet for $150M in cash  —  Fanatics, the sports merchandise giant valued at over $30 billion, has reached a deal to acquire the U.S. assets of PointsBet, an online sportsbook operator based in Australia.

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