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Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax (www.theverge.com)

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform (www.platformer.news)

YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)

Users of those services will be steered toward the web...

Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)

Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge (www.kansascity.com)

Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge::undefined

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again (www.tomsguide.com)

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

Platform Tilt: Tracking issues which disadvantage Firefox relative to first-party browsers on major software platforms (mozilla.github.io)

Mozilla:...

Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years (arstechnica.com)

Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years::The former Theranos CEO is barred from receiving payments from federal health program.

Apple’s no-good week was great for the company and bad for you (www.washingtonpost.com)

Apple’s no-good week was great for the company and bad for you::undefined

Memory chip production at risk as North Korea ramps up threats against South Korea, which produces 71% of global memory supply, 51% of NAND for SSDs | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)

Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” (arstechnica.com)

A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.

Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history (arstechnica.com)

AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman (www.cnn.com)

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? (www.nytimes.com)

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)

“This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system.”

Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report (www.tomshardware.com)

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same (www.theguardian.com)

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term (fortune.com)

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store (bgr.com)

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. (grist.org)

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day (edition.cnn.com)

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day::JPMorgan Chase says it has seen a sizable increase in attempts by hackers each day to infiltrate its systems over the last year, highlighting the escalating cybersecurity challenges the bank and other Wall Street titans are facing.

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