Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at iPhone’s upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources: Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro coming next year will have an aluminum top case  —  Also: The... Read more »

Insider: As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers’ professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups  —  Group chats and messaging apps killed it... Read more »

Reuters: Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan’s next president  —  Terry Gou, the... Read more »

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format  —  Concerns... Read more »

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not... Read more »

James Clayton / BBC: EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023  —  Social media companies have... Read more »

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs... Read more »

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China’s approval, and how they deal with sensitive content  —  China has... Read more »

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it’s no longer under active development  —  Microsoft announced today that... Read more »