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Today we observe a spot of oversight implicit an manufacture that has been allowed to prey connected those little fortunate for mode excessively agelong — Devin reports that the FCC is taking a much steadfast manus successful overseeing the situation telephone system successful a elemental bill, giving the regulatory assemblage the powerfulness “to guarantee conscionable and tenable charges for telephone and precocious communications services successful correctional and detention facilities.”

In different captivating news, the Daily Crunch volition beryllium backmost adjacent week successful a somewhat diminished form, arsenic some Christine and Haje vanish for the holidays. The afloat newsletter volition beryllium backmost soon, and the 2 of america privation you a precise blessed Christmas if you celebrate, a precise peaceful vacation if you bash not, and a magnificently prosperous 2023, successful either case. Much love, Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch Top 4

• Meta settles: After years of pushing backmost against a lawsuit, Meta has agreed to a $725 cardinal colony to resoluteness a class-action suit implicit Cambridge Analytica harvesting information from Facebook users. Paul has more.
• Breathe successful that caller air: Mila, the shaper of a astute aerial purifier that came from humble beginnings connected Kickstarter, scored $10 cardinal successful a circular led by Electrolux. This gives it a $52 cardinal valuation and the backing to adhd immoderate smarts to a caller merchandise — a humidifier, Haje writes.
• Charge it up: It looks similar Tesla is #winning successful a abstraction that Apple couldn’t marque work. The automaker unveiled its $300 charging mat that tin recharge 3 devices astatine once, Matt reports.
• The results are in: Dominic-Madori surveyed 3 Black investors astir what they are prepping for successful 2023. Read the afloat mentation connected TechCrunch+.

Holiday shipping is easier this year, but the tech is inactive lagging

Global proviso lines are successful amended signifier than they were this clip past year, but that doesn’t bode good for the future, writes Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen.

“This year’s improvements successful shipping mostly bespeak a pullback successful depletion alternatively than immoderate betterment successful the underlying infrastructure,” helium says, noting that labour shortages, planetary instability and precocious substance prices person created persistent bottlenecks.

“Fortunately, the information disposable contiguous is affluent beyond measure, and we besides person the tools to leverage it successful ways that tin boost efficiency.”

Three much from the TC+ team:

• Cloud wealth makes it rain: While Amazon had a rocky year, AWS remains a reliable currency cow, by Ron.
• Big, cleanable stacks of money: Clean vigor investments whitethorn adjacent 2022 hitting caller heights, mounting signifier for lofty 2023, by Tim.
• Tearing down the Card Blanch: Pitch Deck Teardown: Card Blanch’s $460K platform for its angel round, by Haje.

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Big Tech Inc.

We enjoyed Ingrid’s in-depth look astatine however decentralized societal media subordinate Mastodon is scaling arsenic Twitter users decamp to hunt for different ways to station everything they are thinking. TechCrunch+ subscribers — if you’re not one, you tin beryllium easy — tin besides work her Q&A with Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko.

If you are a LastPass idiosyncratic similar galore of america present astatine TechCrunch, you mightiness privation to cheque your email if you haven’t already. LastPass says hackers stole immoderate customers’ password vaults. Zack says it’s clip to alteration your passwords.

Google isn’t taking India’s latest good lying down. Manish reports the hunt motor elephantine is appealing the hundreds of millions of dollars successful fines ordered against it over concern practices connected Android.

And we person 4 much for you:

• Can determination beryllium a just predetermination successful societal media land?: Annie writes that “botched contented moderation” during Kenya’s elections past twelvemonth leaves different countries with questions astir what societal media companies, similar Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, volition bash to uphold predetermination integrity successful Africa as their elections happen.
• Persistence oregon annoyance?: @ElonJet creator Jack Sweeney has a caller Twitter grip now, inactive pursuing Elon Musk’s jet, but present delayed, writes Connie. Meanwhile, if you’re Twitter Blue, you can present upload 60-minute videos, Ivan reports. Not definite immoderate of america volition enactment agelong capable to ticker one, truthful bully luck with those caller presumption counts.
• Separated: India’s e-commerce elephantine Flipkart nary longer owns a involvement successful PhonePe, Manish writes.
• This determination has Tesla investors shaking their heads: Tesla’s $7,500 discount feels hopeless and is “giving investors the ick,” writes Rebecca, causing 1 to chopped its terms people for the automaker.