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September 8, 2023, 9:55 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more  —  Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators enter prompts to generate virtual environments, get help with coding, and more  —  Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation on COVID-19 posts  —  The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch any MacBook models with an M3 chip “before the end of this year”  —  Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news for Apple fans hoping to see a lineup of M3-powered Macs this year.  According to Kuo, Apple is no longer planning to release …
Bloomberg:
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software  —  - Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free  — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
The IRS says it has started using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships, large hedge funds, PE groups, and others  —  The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms.
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
X sues California over AB 587, which requires social networks to share moderation rules, arguing it interferes with X's editorial calls protected as free speech  —  Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X is showing some ads in users' Following feeds without an “Ad” label, indicated only by clicking on the three-dot menu, which could attract the FTC's attention  —  X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users' Following feeds …
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit can now translate posts into eight languages, including Spanish and French, when viewing them on its mobile apps or on the web while logged out  —  Reddit can now translate posts into eight different languages when viewing them on Reddit's iOS or Android apps or on the web while logged out …
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Joe Warminsky / The Record:
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware  —  Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push  —  Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks  —  Spotify plans to test …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials  —  Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.

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