US Commerce Dept. adds 7 Chinese tech companies to economic blacklist for complicity in human rights violations, including Softbank-backed CloudMinds (Reuters)

Reuters: US Commerce Dept. adds 7 Chinese tech companies to economic blacklist for complicity in human rights violations, including Softbank-backed CloudMinds — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would add 33 Chinese firms and institutions to an economic blacklist …
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Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data — Terms of the deal give large foreign investors access to confidential information about the social media platform https://bit.ly/3TYS0ix

Apple unveils features specific to international markets, like smart downloads in India to get Indian Siri voices and Apple TV+ shows over mobile networks (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Apple unveils features specific to international markets, like smart downloads in India to get Indian Siri voices and Apple TV+ shows over mobile networks — Apple is rolling out a range of new features and improvements that are aimed at users in India, China and other international markets … https://bit.ly/3etqhSn

Apple confirms that the Bluetooth AAC codec used by AirPods Pro and AirPods Max does not support Apple Music's new lossless streaming (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple confirms that the Bluetooth AAC codec used by AirPods Pro and AirPods Max does not support Apple Music's new lossless streaming — Apple today announced that starting in June, Apple Music songs will be available to stream in Lossless and Hi-Resolution Lossless formats … https://bit.ly/3uYdrDT

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