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June 23, 2023, 12:00 PM
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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
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 …
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.
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
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
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan expands its JPM Coin, launched in 2019 for USD transactions, to euro payments; the digital token has been used to process ~$300B in transactions so far  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. expanded one of the most high-profile projects to bring blockchain technology to traditional banking …
Bloomberg:
A mistakenly released FDIC doc lists SVB customers before its collapse: Sequoia with $1B, Beijing-based Kanzhun with $902.9M, Altos Labs with $680.3M, and more  —  When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8  —  In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS plans to invest $100M in a new program to help companies, like Highspot and Twilio, build generative AI tools by connecting them with AWS AI and ML experts  —  - Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use generative artificial intelligence.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Precision Neuroscience, founded by a Neuralink co-founder, claims to have conducted its first in-human clinical study to map brain signals via a neural implant  —  - Founded in 2021 by a co-founder of Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, Precision Neuroscience …

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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

More News

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Court filing: the US SEC agreed to forego $30M of bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi's $50M fine, for not registering with the regulator, until investors are repaid
Lee Harris / American Prospect:
Sources: most of the ~12K workers at TSMC's Arizona fab are non-union contractors; workers detail wage theft, accidents of loads dropped from cranes, 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

Earlier Picks

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
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 quits after five years at the company to refocus on “entrepreneurial passions”; chief of staff Adam Presser becomes head of operations
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
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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