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December 16, 2024, 7:25 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros for 2028, a Magic Mouse revamp, and an AirTag with triple the range of the current one  —  Apple's new vision for the future of computing is a giant, iPad-like foldable device.  Also: The company rethinks the mouse …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands  —  Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025  —  - Ofcom released first guidelines for Online Safety Act  — Rules require firms to remove illegal content or face fines
Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk:
Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers  —  Ethereum remained the blockchain with the most devs, and the overall population of software builders in crypto was flat, the VC firm said in its annual survey.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Arm and Qualcomm's chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia acquisition  —  Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies' relationship
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% of the US workers already use the tech weekly  —  Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so
Jack Ryan / Bloomberg:
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports  —  - Metal has applications in semiconductors and TV screens  — Prices assessed by Fastmarkets reached $595 per kilogram
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos  —  Ricardo Martinez, an 11th grader, was in his high school lunchroom in April when a mass brawl erupted.
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