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March 18, 2022, 12:02 PM

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Sameer Manekar / Reuters:
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Meta claiming Facebook “aided and abetted” scam cryptocurrency ads with photos of famous Australians  —  Australian competition watchdog has begun proceedings against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) …
Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News:
The UK's Online Safety Bill, introduced to Parliament in hopes of sensible reform, is an unworkable compromise whose basic elements are shrouded in confusion  —  Even after years of debate, there remain substantive differences of opinion about the nature and purpose of the bill …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Edge now automatically fills in missing image alt text for screen readers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, to be read aloud for blind or low vision users  —  Ideal for blind or low vision web users  —  More than half of the images on the web are missing alt text, according to Microsoft.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
A look at the FIDO Alliance's vision of a passwordless future, based on a passkey-like “FIDO credential” manager that lets users easily switch between devices  —  After a decade of work, the FIDO Alliance says it's found the missing piece in the bridge to a password-free future.
James Ball / MIT Technology Review:
Russia's disconnection from Western online services adds to fears of a “splinternet”, or networks with incompatible protocols diverging from the global internet  —  If Russia disconnects from—or is booted from— the internet's governing bodies, the internet may never be the same again for any of us.
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Sources: the FTC will not challenge Amazon's MGM Studios acquisition as Lina Khan decided not to call for a vote, anticipating opposition from GOP commissioners  —  The Federal Trade Commission will not challenge Amazon's acquisition of MGM Studios after the agency's commissioners split on bringing a suit …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Eli Tan / CoinDesk:
C2X, which is building a gaming platform on the Terra blockchain, raises $25M through a private token sale led by FTX Ventures and others at a $500M valuation  —  FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto and Animoca Brands were among the purchasers in the sale that values CRX, a Hashed-advised gaming platform, at $500 million.
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Bored Ape Yacht Club's $APE token hit a peak of $39.40 per token during its airdrop, but later sank as low as $7.50  —  ApeCoin, the Ethereum token built for the expanding Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT ecosystem, launched this morning and rapidly rose in value before shedding much of its initial momentum.
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Apple Mac Studio review: compact design with lightning fast M1 Ultra and great port selection but expensive, not modular, and unimpressive graphics performance  —  This computer is a historic achievement  —  Apple's 2019 desktop release was supposed to be the computer that professional Mac users had been waiting for.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:

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