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The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
The EU's DSA forces Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, handle misinformation during crises, and more — The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world — The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
As the EU finalizes the DMA and the DSA, a report reveals Big Tech companies' last-minute lobbying to limit crackdowns on surveillance advertising and more — A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc's digital rulebook.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple warns it will remove apps from the App Store that haven't been “updated in a significant amount of time” and is giving developers 30 days to update them — Wiping apps that haven't been updated in a ‘significant amount of time’ — Apple may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates.
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| Shruti Shekar / Android Central: |
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a restaurant in the US, with a minimalist design in black and a proprietary Google band — If this is the final design of the Google Pixel Watch, then many of the rumors have come true. — What you need to know
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a patched RCE flaw in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced ALAC in 2011 — Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file. — Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers …
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| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
Elon Musk's bid for Twitter appears to be about preserving Twitter as a means for himself and others to continue influencing vast audiences without interference — The world's richest man seems intent on preserving Twitter as a means for himself and others to continue influencing vast audiences without interference.
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| Joy Press / Vanity Fair: |
Streamers are acting like network TV, as they pull back on edgy content and seek “elevated broadcasts”, like sitcoms, under financial pressure and competition — Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect for iPhone 14: 48MP wide-angle camera, pill-shaped and circular cutouts instead of a notch, and an A16 for Pro models, a larger 6.7" 14 Max — Even though it may feel like the iPhone 13 just went on sale, the iPhone 14 launch is less than six months away.
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| Philip Bump / Washington Post: |
How Telegram became the most prominent platform for the right-wing fringe, including by not having a recommendation algorithm, which helps groups stay hidden — Once conservative America decided that mainstream social media platforms were unfairly censoring them — a belief born of pressure … | The Economic Times: |
Amazon acquires GlowRoad, an Indian social commerce startup focused on women, which has 6M+ resellers in 2,000 cities and has raised ~$31M from Accel and others — - Amazon has acquired Glowroad in an all-cash deal. — Glowroad's team will join Amazon, but will continue to run as an independent unit for now.| The Intercept: |
Leaked sales pitch: US government contractor Anomaly Six, which says it can track ~3B phones in real time, demoed its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA staff — In partnership with — In the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss …
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