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Bloomberg: Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week  —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips  —  White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nabiha Syed / The Markup: Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office’s guidance on AI-generated work, and more  —  A conversation with Katherine Forrest  —  Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset’s features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs’ BAYC trademarks  —  Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: AI’s mythology as tech for creating independent, intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries  —  There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Pearl / Mashable: Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks  —  If you can’t beat ‘em verify ‘em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter’s revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme