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Sources: the EU plans to hit Apple with a ban on anti-steering App Store rules for music streaming rivals and a possible fine in 2024, after Spotify’s complaint (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU plans to hit Apple with a ban on anti-steering App Store rules for music streaming rivals and a possible fine in 2024, after Spotify’s complaint — – EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with

Etsy plans to lay off 11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce marketplace grapples with slow consumer spending and increased competition (Theo Wayt/The Information)

Theo Wayt / The Information: Etsy plans to lay off 11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce marketplace grapples with slow consumer spending and increased competition — Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell …

Pixel Watch Unlock is very neat on phones, but I wish it worked both ways

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority As part of the December Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a new feature that lets you quickly and automatically unlock your phone if your Pixel Watch is nearby and unlocked too. The option showed up for me today. I quickly jumped on board and decided to test

Amazon launches Your Books, a hub to let users organize all of their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while also providing recommendations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Your Books, a hub to let users organize all of their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while also providing recommendations — Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.

Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange as part of a global expansion, letting investors trade bitcoin and ether against USDC (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange as part of a global expansion, letting investors trade bitcoin and ether against USDC — – Hazy regulatory outlook deters some investors from US venues … Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether …

The US Supreme Court Will Decide the Fate of Medication Abortion

The Supreme Court will hear a case to determine access to the abortion pill in the US. If the court decides to curtail the availability of mifepristone, it would be a major blow to reproductive health care.

Amazon is making it easier to browse your entire library of books

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Amazon is rolling out a new feature that puts every book you’ve ever purchased on the site — whether it’s digital, physical, or an audiobook — into a single searchable hub. The new feature, called Your Books, lets you sort through all your titles while also providing recommendations

Politico, Business Insider parent Axel Springer inks deal with OpenAI

Illustration by William Joel OpenAI and Axel Springer, the parent company of Business Insider and Politico, signed a deal to share content on ChatGPT. The deal allows ChatGPT to pull information to user prompts from articles published on Axel Springer’s publications and provide links to full stories for transparency. It will also enable Axel Springer

This Samsung Galaxy S23 deal is better than Black Friday

Not for the first time, we’ve spotted a flagship Samsung device with a bigger discount than it had on Black Friday. It’s the Samsung Galaxy S23 this time around, with the Android phone currently $125 off before you even consider any trade-in discount. Samsung Galaxy S23 for $674.99 ($125)

Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Kyivstar

A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia’s notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a disruptive breach of Kyivstar, a major Ukrainian mobile and internet provider.

Netflix is bringing the excellent Sonic Mania to mobile

Image: Sega Netflix has figured out that the only thing better than having a bunch of Sonic cartoons on its platform is having a Sonic game. The streamer has announced that Sonic Mania Plus — y’know, the best Sonic game this decade — is coming to mobile via Netflix in 2024. Sonic Mania launched on

A profile of Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit ad watchdog that works to cut off the revenue streams of far-right creators and publishers (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: A profile of Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit ad watchdog that works to cut off the revenue streams of far-right creators and publishers — Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer …

Apple’s Self Service Repair now offers a remote diagnostic tool for the iPhone 15 and more

Apple is expanding its Self Service Repair program to the iPhone 15 series and the M2 lineup of Macs and Macbooks. The company is also opening up access to its Diagnostics tool to users in the US. Diagnostics access is promised to expand to Europe next year. Apple runs a Self Service Repair program allowing

The Drucker Institute’s Management Top 250 shows tech remains at the top; Microsoft was first for the fourth year, followed by Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, and IBM (Tom Corrigan/Wall Street Journal)

Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal: The Drucker Institute’s Management Top 250 shows tech remains at the top; Microsoft was first for the fourth year, followed by Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, and IBM — Technology giants led the way, with Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet and IBM rounding out the top 5 — Technology giants strengthened …

Night Court (2023) season 2: Plot, cast, release window, and more

NBC’s revival of the classic 1980s sitcom Night Court was a surprise hit when it debuted in January 2023. With strong viewership and positive reviews, the network quickly renewed Night Court for a second season. Here’s everything we know about the Night Court 2023 season 2 release date and plot development. Is Night Court Renewed

Instagram is going to let you set video statuses

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is going to help you spice up your Notes by letting you post video Notes, Meta announced on Wednesday. Notes have so far been text-based, meaning they currently function like the AIM status messages of my millennial youth. (You can even share what song you’re listening to!)

Radio Station WWV: All Time, All the Time

Of all the rabbit holes we technical types tend to fall down, perhaps the one with the most twists and turns is: time. Some of this is due to the curiously mysterious nature of time itself, but more has to do with the various ways we’ve decided to slice and dice time to suit our

Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting developers build apps, available for free at launch with limits, and adds Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting developers build apps, available for free at launch with limits, and adds Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI — Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features …

Google releases Imagen 2, announced in preview in May 2023 and built with Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google releases Imagen 2, announced in preview in May 2023 and built with Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features — Google’s making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt …

Google announces MedLM, a family of AI models fine-tuned for the medical industries and based on Med-PaLM 2, available to Google Cloud customers in the US (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google announces MedLM, a family of AI models fine-tuned for the medical industries and based on Med-PaLM 2, available to Google Cloud customers in the US — – Google on Wednesday announced a suite of new health-care AI models called MedLM. — The move marks Google’s latest attempt …

Range Rover opens a waiting list for its upcoming EV

The Range Rover EV waiting list is open for signups. | Image: Jaguar Land Rover Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that it has opened up waiting list signups for its first fully electric Range Rover EV, along with a teaser video today. The electric SUV, which it says will debut in 2024 (it had previously

Tesla will update nearly every car sold in the US to address Autopilot ‘defect’

Because Autopilot is a standard feature on new Tesla models, almost every X, S, 3, and Y (pictured) model sold within the US is impacted. | Image: Tesla Tesla is pushing software updates to over 2 million vehicles in the US — or almost every Model S, Y, X, and 3 ever sold in the

The U.S.’ biggest carmaker is ditching Apple CarPlay because it might be dangerous

GM is removing a key Apple feature from future cars for safety purposes.

This smart mixer did not make me a better baker

The $800 GE Profile Smart Mixer improves on the category — but not enough to justify its high price tag and hefty size. Continue reading…

Sources: ByteDance cancels an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, the Pico 5, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: ByteDance cancels an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, the Pico 5, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags — Chinese tech giant ByteDance might have set Facebook owner Meta Platforms on its heels with its hugely popular TikTok app.

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