Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stablecoins. Zoom is going to start showing you ads unless you pay up. Zillow misjudged the housing market. And a security flaw has been found, inside, of all things: Unicode.

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Links:

• Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia)
• Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia)
• Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk)
• Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge)
• ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity)
• Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg)
• Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ)

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