Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped accelerate looser COVID-19 rules (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped accelerate looser COVID-19 rules  —  Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou warned that the government's strict policies would threaten its position in global supply chains

The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for all new smartphones, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for all new smartphones, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging  —  We finally have a final official deadline for when new phones sold in the European Union — including future iPhones — will have to use USB-C for wired charging: December 28 2024.

A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding "magic avatars" (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars”  —  Social media is celebrating.  Artists are protesting.  What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?

Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs  —  Dutch officials are planning new controls on exports of chipmaking equipment to China, according to people familiar with the matter …

Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France's digital privacy defender (Elisa Braun/Politico)

Elisa Braun / Politico:
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France's digital privacy defender  —  This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance.  Read the rest.

Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment  —  Hello!  Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.