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Kuo: Apple to use higher energy density battery cells for iPhone 16 Pro Max and stainless steel battery cases for better replaceability, an EU requirement (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Ubisoft falls ~15% after warning that Q1 net bookings will be ~€275M, below €376M est., and reporting a €401M adjusted operating income in FY 2024 (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
ElevenLabs quietly launches ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio, its first consumer app to read web pages, PDFs and other documents aloud in 11 different voices (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
An undercover investigation details working as a rotating cast of low-wage workers hired to pretend to be influencer girlfriends on OnlyFans (Brendan I. Koerner/Wired)
US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado's bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut's now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure (Mallory Culhane/Politico)
Insiders detail the crypto industry's lobbying efforts ahead of the 2024 US elections, as crypto-focused PACs shape the outcome of some key congressional races (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually (James Reddick/The Record)
Raspberry Pi announces plans for a London Stock Exchange IPO; the company was reportedly valued at ~$560M when Arm acquired a minority stake in November 2023 (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)