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A group of 18 state AGs backs Montana’s effort to ban TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the January 1, 2024, effective date (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters: A group of 18 state AGs backs Montana’s effort to ban TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the January 1, 2024, effective date  —  A group of 18 state attorneys general… Continue Reading →

Q&A with Apple executives Jeremy Sandmel and Tim Millet on the company’s gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX upscaling, gaming controllers, and more (Taylor Lyles/IGN)

Taylor Lyles / IGN: Q&A with Apple executives Jeremy Sandmel and Tim Millet on the company’s gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX upscaling, gaming controllers, and more  —  Apple is really leaning into the “Pro” aspect of the… Continue Reading →

Visa’s credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Visa’s credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic  —  – Visa fields 90 million disputes… Continue Reading →

Code in Uber’s iPhone app suggests the company is working on a TaskRabbit-like service, codenamed Chore, to let users hire people to conduct various tasks (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Code in Uber’s iPhone app suggests the company is working on a TaskRabbit-like service, codenamed Chore, to let users hire people to conduct various tasks  —  – Uber is looking for new ways to grow beyond rides, deliveries  — … Continue Reading →

Senator Marsha Blackburn, the Kids Online Safety Act’s lead sponsor, says the US legislation would be used to “protect minor children” from transgender people (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning)

Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning: Senator Marsha Blackburn, the Kids Online Safety Act’s lead sponsor, says the US legislation would be used to “protect minor children” from transgender people  —  The lead sponsor of the “Kids Online Safety… Continue Reading →

DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% between January 2022 and July 2023, while monthly NFT sales dropped 61%; bitcoin is up nearly 55% in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% between January 2022 and July 2023, while monthly NFT sales dropped 61%; bitcoin is up nearly 55% in 2023  —  When you look at the charts, “everything is down.”  —  NFTs first… Continue Reading →

Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments  —  CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines,… Continue Reading →

X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” (Joe Wituschek/BGR)

Joe Wituschek / BGR: X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates”  —  Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job?  Nah, those days are… Continue Reading →

China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy (Gian Volpicelli/Politico)

Gian Volpicelli / Politico: China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy  —  China wants to define how a new, promising technology called… Continue Reading →

Western Digital refused to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all the data; the company is being sued over data-loss claims (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Western Digital refused to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all the data; the company is being sued over data-loss claims  —  Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to… Continue Reading →

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