New Price for Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2: Apple stops selling them in its online store in the US

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From CZ to SBF, 2023 was the year of the fallen crypto bro

Looking back, 2023 will likely be remembered as the year of the fallen crypto bro. While celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Matt Damon last year faced public backlash after shilling for cryptocurrency, this year's top headlines traced the downfalls of two of the most successful and influential crypto bros of all time: FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ).

At 28 years old, Bankman-Fried made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2021, but within two short years, his recently updated Forbes profile notes that the man who was once "one of the richest people in crypto" in "a stunning fall from grace" now has a real-time net worth of $0.

Read more: Ars Technica

U.S. Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards for Children

The F.T.C. called for sweeping changes that could curb how social media, game and learning apps use and monetize youngsters' data.

Read more: The New York Times

Google's ChatGPT competitor Bard is nearly as good — just slower

Earlier this month, Google announced the release of Gemini, what it considers its most powerful AI model yet. It integrated Gemini immediately into its flagship generative AI chatbot, Bard, in hopes of steering more users away from its biggest competitor, OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Read more: The Verge

Apple stops selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in its online store in the US

As promised, Apple today removed the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 from its online store in the United States, just days before the ITC's Watch import ban goes into effect.

Read more: MacRumors