Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over location tracking practices, after agreeing to pay ~$392M to 40 US states (Jared Gans/The Hill)

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Grubhub was ordered to pay $3.5M to settle a lawsuit filed by the Washington DC AG's office for charging hidden fees and using deceptive marketing techniques (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

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First pretrial hearing in the FTC's case against Microsoft's $69B bid to take over Activision Blizzard set for January 3, 2023 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

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Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but didn't in 2022, probably due to more security, streaming, and shorter release windows (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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A look at 2022's worst breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored hacking campaigns, and digital takeovers, including at least two Twilio breaches (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Meta buys Netherlands-based Luxexcel, which uses 3D printing to make prescription lenses for smart glasses; Meta reportedly worked with Luxexcel on Project Aria (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

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Report: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others are slashing their orders with TSMC, with the contract manufacturer's Q1 2023 sales projected to decrease by 15% QoQ (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon's labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech (Brian Merchant/The Atlantic)

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Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon)

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Source: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week (Wall Street Journal)

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Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

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Accounting software maker Sage threatens to turn off UK customers' long-term licenses, citing security issues to push them to buy costly monthly subscriptions (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)

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Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them (Reuters)

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Canada's competition tribunal approves Rogers' $14.77B bid to acquire Shaw, saying the deal is "not likely to prevent or lessen competition substantially" (Reuters)

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Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft plan to connect data centers to heating systems in Europe; Meta began in 2020 in Denmark, and Google is assessing its opportunities (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, reducing training for new staff, and canceling janitorial services (New York Times)

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A look at India's plan to build a semiconductor supply chain, including via a ~$10B incentive program, issues with the Foxconn-Vedanta joint venture, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

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India says it will prioritize the development of global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, including their possible prohibition, under its G20 presidency (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jon Peddie Research: shipments of discrete GPUs fell 42% YoY to ~14M in Q3 2022, including ~6.9M units for desktop PCs, the lowest number since at least Q3 2005 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 (CNBC)

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Ukraine was ‘sea change' for spies – GCHQ head Sir Jeremy Fleming interviews head of US intelligence agency as guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme. December 29, 2022 at 05:34AM

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Some Twitter users are reporting widespread service interruptions; Downdetector: the issues mainly affect its website and started around 7pm ET on Wednesday (Kate Conger/New York Times)

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A hacker leaks API keys belonging to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, which said its users were "phished"; 3Commas CEO confirms the leaked data (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

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CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Group: US sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Kraken says it is closing its cryptocurrency exchange services in Japan, operated by Payward Asia, on January 31 2023, weeks after cutting its workforce by 30% (Bloomberg)

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Southwest Airlines says the operational meltdown over the holiday weekend was partly caused by its scheduling software, which a union rep called as "outdated" (Taylor Rains/Insider)

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Court filing: Intel and VLSI Technology agreed to end a patent dispute in Delaware where Intel previously said VLSI had asked for more than $4B in damages (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Sources: Instacart cuts its internal valuation to ~$10B, down ~75% from $39B in March 2021; the company slashed its valuation every quarter in 2022 (Erin Woo/The Information)

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Filing: US prosecutors charge a man with fraud and manipulation, accusing him of trying to steal ~$110M in October by rigging the DeFi platform Mango Markets (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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An interview with AI researcher and MacArthur Fellow Yejin Choi on misconceptions about AI, GPT-3, training models to make moral decisions, and more (David Marchese/New York Times)

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A profile of Senegal-based Wave, Francophone West Africa's only unicorn and the first non-telco, non-bank offering mobile money services in eight countries (Bloomberg)

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Jakarta-based Akulaku, a digital banking startup which offers a virtual credit card, neobank, and more, raised $200M from Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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Q&A with Apple App Store Vice President Matt Fischer on Apple Arcade's inception, its lack of a flagship exclusive game, approaching game developers, and more (Shelby Brown/CNET)

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Experts say Hua Hong, China's second-largest chip foundry, is barely affected by US sanctions and its focus on older chips could make it Beijing's new favorite (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)

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Chinese government data for January to October 2022 shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY from 275.3M to 214.5M units (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

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Stack Overflow's 2022 Developer Survey shows ~40% use a Linux-based system, up from ~25% in 2021 and ~23% in 2018, compared to ~62% for Windows and ~31% for Mac (Justin Garrison/Justin Garrison)

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FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz (Freddy Brewster/Los Angeles Times)

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A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings (Omer Benjakob/Haaretz)

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A look at Elon Musk's tightening finances as TSLA dropped 65% in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power, and his fortune fell from an estimated $340B high to $140B (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

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Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions (Financial Times)

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Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don't while making them believe their code has no safety issues (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

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A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)

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Supply chain experts warn of a months-long disruption risk to Apple's iPhone production and operations due to worker absenteeism, amid China's COVID-19 wave (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

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Twitter employees shed light on Elon Musk's erratic leadership; a Signal message shows Musk wanted "full access" for Bari Weiss, which staff refused to grant (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

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A new California law effectively bans Tesla and other carmakers from deceptively naming or marketing their semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving (Ricardo Cano/San Francisco Chronicle)

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Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency lacking a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership is often focused on its PR (CyberScoop)

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A look at XRAI Glass, an Android app for the deaf and hard of hearing that can caption real-life conversations when paired with $379 Nreal Air AR glasses (Simon Hill/Wired)

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Joe Biden signs into law an $858B defense policy bill that confers more power and obligations on US Cyber Command (Martin Matishak/The Record)

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The FTC orders Mastercard to provide customer data to its competitors for debit card payments, alleging Mastercard used tokenization to block competing networks (Bloomberg)

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