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To comply with the EU's DSA, TikTok plans to let users turn off personalized recommendations in For You, remove targeted ads for users aged 13 to 17, and more — Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has announced a raft of new features for European users aimed at improving compliance with incoming European Union regulations.
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| Dan Garisto / Nature: |
Scientists have so far failed to show that a South Korean team's LK-99 material is a claimed room temperature superconductor, which could transform computing — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A Korean team's claim to have discovered a superconductor …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Coinbase asks a judge to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit, arguing that the case “falls outside the agency's delegated authority” as Coinbase doesn't trade securities — Coinbase is asking a judge to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against it.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Samsung, HP, and others freeze new imports of laptops and tablets to India; sources say India's sudden import license rules caught the industry off-guard — - India surprised industry with new import license requirement — Modi government seeks to promote domestic manufacturing| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a German company to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting auto, and then mobile and IoT — - Venture will be focused on building RISC-V technology — Unnamed business will initially focus on applications for cars| CNBC: |
Ilya Lichtenstein, who earlier pled guilty to laundering $4.5B in bitcoin stolen via Bitfinex's 2016 hack, admits in court to being the original Bitfinex hacker — - A New York man admitted being the original hacker of bitcoin in the 2016 hack on Bitfinex he pleaded guilty in federal court …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Background actors describe studios scanning their bodies and worrying over the lack of control of their digital likenesses, a key issue in the SAG-AFTRA strike — After four weeks of working as a background actor on the Disney+ series WandaVision during the pandemic, Alexandria Rubalcaba …
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| New York Times: |
A profile of TSMC founder Morris Chang, who left the US for Taiwan in 1985 to build a chip manufacturing titan now at the center of the US-China tech Cold War — At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows. — Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
SoftBank sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi for fraud after investing $150M in IRL in 2021 on user metrics claims; IRL allegedly paid to fill the site with bots — SoftBank sued former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi and five siblings and cousins for allegedly misleading the investor about the messaging app's growth …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Alphabet sold nearly 90% of its Robinhood stake as of June 30, as part of paring back large positions in public companies like 23andMe and Duolingo — - Google parent Alphabet has pared back large positions in multiple publicly traded firms, including the trading platform Robinhood, 23andMe and Duolingo.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Window Snyder, who helped secure the early internet while at Microsoft and Mozilla, and pushed Apple to enable encryption by default in its devices — Snyder has made Windows, Mac computers, iPhones, and other technologies more secure for almost 25 years.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Revolut plans to start closing its US cryptocurrency services on September 2, citing regulatory uncertainty, impacting less than 1% of its crypto users globally — - Revolut is closing its cryptocurrency platform in the U.S., citing regulatory uncertainty.| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google will face a scaled-down antitrust lawsuit over search after a judge ruled that state AGs didn't show that Google's search results harmed rivals like Yelp — - Google still faces DOJ, state suits over search contracts — Combined trial over claims set for Sept. 12 in federal court
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