Why Uber may be in legal trouble in Australia

Australia's competition watchdog is suing Uber Technologies Inc and seeking a A$26 million ($18.69 million) fine https://ift.tt/q8ROZgv

Fidelity will let retirement savers put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts starting later in 2022, the first major retirement plan provider to do so (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)

Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
Fidelity will let retirement savers put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts starting later in 2022, the first major retirement plan provider to do so  —  Investment giant's move could send cryptocurrency investing further into mainstream if employers decide to offer option

SonarSource, which helps companies detect reliability and vulnerability issues in code, raises $412M co-led by Advent and General Catalyst at a $4.7B valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SonarSource, which helps companies detect reliability and vulnerability issues in code, raises $412M co-led by Advent and General Catalyst at a $4.7B valuation  —  Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face.  In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph …

Twitter, Tesla and other companies owned by Elon Musk

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Facebook-owner Meta fights to overturn UK order to sell Giphy

Facebook owner Meta started its appeal on Monday against Britain's ruling that it must sell Giphy, arguing the fact that rival Snap offered far less to buy the animated-images provider undermined the rationale used to block the deal. https://ift.tt/jbleED0

Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020  —  Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …

Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps ~4% (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps ~4%  —  Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.

Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants  —  Tech companies are facing increasing momentum from workers trying to organize  —  At a Staten Island warehouse set to start …

Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more  —  A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.  —  Organizations using newer versions …

Sources: Twitter's board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk's bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk's filing detailed $46.5B in financing (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: Twitter's board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk's bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk's filing detailed $46.5B in financing  —  Twitter's 11-member board met on Sunday morning to discuss Mr. Musk's offer to buy the company and take it private.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Reliance Industries calls off its $3.4B acquisition of core parts of Indian retail chain Future Group, following Amazon's legal fight against the deal (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance Industries calls off its $3.4B acquisition of core parts of Indian retail chain Future Group, following Amazon's legal fight against the deal  —  Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire core parts of retail chain Future Group after the latter's secured …

Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that it has received a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that it has received a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city of Guangzhou  —  - Self-driving start-up Pony.ai announced Sunday it received a taxi license, the first of its kind in China.

What to expect for iPhone 14: 48MP wide-angle camera, pill-shaped and circular cutouts instead of a notch, and an A16 for Pro models, a larger 6.7" 14 Max (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect for iPhone 14: 48MP wide-angle camera, pill-shaped and circular cutouts instead of a notch, and an A16 for Pro models, a larger 6.7" 14 Max  —  Even though it may feel like the iPhone 13 just went on sale, the iPhone 14 launch is less than six months away.

How Telegram became the most prominent platform for the right-wing fringe, including by not having a recommendation algorithm, which helps groups stay hidden (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Telegram became the most prominent platform for the right-wing fringe, including by not having a recommendation algorithm, which helps groups stay hidden  —  Once conservative America decided that mainstream social media platforms were unfairly censoring them — a belief born of pressure …

Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing (Bill Curry/Globe and Mail)

Bill Curry / Globe and Mail:
Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing  —  Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator …