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Anja Karadeglija / National Post:
Meta plans to remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the Online News Act passed Canada's Senate and received Royal Assent  —  With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches
Anand J / Moneycontrol:
Sources: Apple is in talks to launch Apple Card in India, meeting with HDFC and the RBI; a source says Apple is holding discussions with the NPCI over Apple Pay  —  This comes in the wake of Apple's decision to stop card payments in India on its App Store and for its iCloud services.
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
A look at Apple Vision Pro features based on the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode”  —  Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023.  But even so, there are still a lot of details …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
In a private email, PlayStation chief Jim Ryan said the Microsoft-Activision deal wasn't about Xbox exclusives, countering Sony's public arguments and filings  —  We're only minutes into the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, and we've already had a bombshell revelation.
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Filing: Microsoft says Xbox “lost the console wars”, with a 16% share of console sales in 2021, behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and a 21% installed base share  —  Xbox “in third place” behind PlayStation and Nintendo, with a sales market share of 16%.
Wall Street Journal:
Thierry Breton says he sees a “strong willingness” from Twitter to comply with the EU's DSA and the company was the first to undergo a stress test to prepare  —  Social-media platform did voluntary stress test as a dry run before law takes effect late August
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS plans to invest $100M in a new program to help companies, including Highspot and Twilio, build generative AI products by connecting them with AWS AI experts  —  - Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use generative artificial intelligence.

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From Mediagazer

Sara Fischer / Axios:
PBS and a public TV affiliate in Minnesota sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights

Max Tani / Semafor:
The California State Senate opens an inquiry into whether Paramount's reported $15M proposed settlement with Trump violated bribery and unfair competition laws

Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift acquires the rights to her first six albums from Shamrock Capital; sources say the deal was in the mid-$300M range

More News

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Filing: the SEC has agreed to forego a $30M fine from bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi until after investors are repaid
Lee Harris / American Prospect:
Sources: most of the ~12,000 workers at TSMC's Arizona fab are non-union contractors; workers describe issues of wage theft, unsafe working conditions, and more
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Micron plans to invest up to $825M in its first DRAM and NAND assembly and test facility in India, slating a two-phase construction in Gujarat to begin in 2023
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
NYC-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $250M valuation, bringing its total funding to $40M

Earlier Picks

Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer, announced in 2015, which will come online later in 2023 with 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS of processing power
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas steps down after five years at the company to refocus on “entrepreneurial passions”
CoinDesk:
BitGo ends its bid to acquire rival Prime Trust, which in turn halts all deposits and withdrawals; a judge dismissed BitGo's lawsuit over the failed Galaxy deal
Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Robinhood acquires X1, a startup offering a no-fee income-based credit card with rewards, for $95M in cash; X1 had raised $62M, including $15M in December 2022
Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica:
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Apple patches three zero-days in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, exploited by the Triangulation iMessage spyware reported by Kaspersky earlier in June 2023
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