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Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)

SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create "content authenticity" detection tech, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google rejected 2.28M "policy-violating" Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data to aggregators "without customer consent" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, allowing ChatGPT Plus users to tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company)

Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill (Wall Street Journal)

TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard (Washington Post)

EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board (Eugen Rochko/Mastodon Blog)

Google is testing "Speaking practice" in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments (The Baltimore Banner)

As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P's worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company's missteps (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business (Kate Kelly/New York Times)

Nagomi Security, which has developed a proactive security and threat exposure management platform, emerges from stealth with a $23M Series A and a $7M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Stripe says some of its products will be available to companies that are using other payments providers, and unveils new embedded finance features and AI tools (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ (Brian McGleenon/The Block)

WhatsApp rolls out passkey support on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes, six months after introducing the feature on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)