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Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive...

A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has...

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Apple and Ericsson reach a licensing agreement over "patented cellular standard-essential technologies" and more, ending a years-long legal battle (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple and Ericsson reach a licensing agreement over "patented...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:Apple and Ericsson reach a licensing agreement over “patented...

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SBF agrees to testify before a House committee on December 13 but remains quiet about a request from a Senate committee, which could issue a subpoena (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

SBF agrees to testify before a House committee on December...

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:SBF agrees to testify before a House committee...

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Twitter emails advertisers about plans to launch controls to prevent their ads from showing up next to tweets with certain keywords, as soon as next week (Sheila Dang/Reuters)

Twitter emails advertisers about plans to launch controls...

Sheila Dang / Reuters:Twitter emails advertisers about plans to launch controls...

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Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from staff and contractor agreements, which limited the ability to speak about harassment and other unlawful conduct (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from staff and...

Patrick McGee / Financial Times:Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from...

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Auditing firm Mazars says Crypto.com users' crypto assets are fully backed one-to-one, after vouching for a similar proof-of-reserves report from Binance (Nick Baker/CoinDesk)

Auditing firm Mazars says Crypto.com users' crypto assets...

Nick Baker / CoinDesk:Auditing firm Mazars says Crypto.com users' crypto assets...

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Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a full-scale investigation into Broadcom's proposed $61B VMware acquisition (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a full-scale...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a full-scale...

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Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to buy and run the site; CEO has now resigned (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block...

Sara Fischer / Axios:Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block...

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Ireland's privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Ireland's privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter...

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:Ireland's privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter...

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Source: the US DOJ is preparing a possible fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried and others, examining cash flows to the Bahamas around FTX's bankruptcy filing (Bloomberg)

Source: the US DOJ is preparing a possible fraud case against...

Bloomberg:Source: the US DOJ is preparing a possible fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried...

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London-based 9fin, which offers AI-powered data analytics for debt markets, raised a $23M Series A+ led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $37.2M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

London-based 9fin, which offers AI-powered data analytics...

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu:London-based 9fin, which offers AI-powered data analytics for...

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Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning commercial spyware after the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was accused of surveillance (Derek Gatopoulos/Associated Press)

Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning commercial...

Derek Gatopoulos / Associated Press:Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning...

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Huawei licenses key 5G tech to Oppo, amid a US crackdown, and says it has patent cross-licensing deals with 20 companies, including extended deals with Samsung (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Huawei licenses key 5G tech to Oppo, amid a US crackdown,...

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:Huawei licenses key 5G tech to Oppo, amid a US crackdown,...

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FTC officials seeking to block Microsoft's Activision deal are potentially more concerned about the future of cloud gaming than console-exclusive games (Bloomberg)

FTC officials seeking to block Microsoft's Activision deal...

Bloomberg:FTC officials seeking to block Microsoft's Activision deal are potentially...

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Vietnam says it will bar ads on content that it deems to be anti-government or otherwise "toxic", which may affect individual YouTube and Facebook user accounts (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

Vietnam says it will bar ads on content that it deems to...

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia:Vietnam says it will bar ads on content that it deems to...

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The FTC will face hurdles to block Microsoft's Activision deal, as courts are skeptical of vertical merger challenges where two companies don't compete directly (New York Times)

The FTC will face hurdles to block Microsoft's Activision...

New York Times:The FTC will face hurdles to block Microsoft's Activision deal, as...