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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games files an antitrust suit against Apple, arguing the App Store is a monopoly, seeking no damages but just injunctive relief to “allow fair competition” — Epic has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit following Apple's removal of Fortnite from the App Store
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple has removed Epic Games' Fortnite from the App Store after the developer implemented its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple's standard 30% fee — Apple says Epic is violating its App Store guidelines by using its own payment system — Apple has removed Epic Games' battle royale Fortnite …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic enables a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android alongside the existing method, to get around app store fees; buying direct is up to 20% off — Plus, V-bucks get permanently discounted — Today, Epic announced the Fortnite “mega drop,” a permanent discount on V-bucks …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google removes Fortnite from its Play Store, argues that although its Android ecosystem is open, Epic's decision violates store policies — You can still install it directly from Epic, however — Following its removal from the Apple App Store, Fortnite has also been kicked off of the Google Play Store for Android.
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| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Accompanying its lawsuit, Epic released a 1984-inspired Fortnite short, parodying Apple's iconic Macintosh commercial — Epic is taking on the Apple App Store, with a video and a lawsuit — Epic premiered a new short video in Fortnite on Thursday called “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite.”
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October — Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
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Tweets: @jasongurwin, @ryanfraase, @bzamayo, @pkafka, @arctictony, @genepark, and @markgurman
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations' cryptocurrency accounts” …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees — The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
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Sources: Apple, Disney, and others participated in a White House call over the potential WeChat ban, arguing it could undermine their competitiveness in China — Companies including Apple, Disney and Walmart participate in call with White House over action against China's most important app
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Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Mashable
Tweets: @lingling_wei, @srussolillo, and @ferrotv
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers say a now-patched Alexa vulnerability could have been exploited to hand over users' personal data, voice recordings, banking data history, and more — Subdomains belonging to the service were found to be harboring CORS errors and vulnerable to XSS attacks.
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Check Point Research, Wired, Android Authority, TechRepublic, CNET, Mashable, Silicon Republic, and Neowin. Tweets: @checkpointsw
| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations — The National Security Agency and the FBI are jointly exposing malware that they say Russian military hackers use in cyber-espionage operations.
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Tweets: @nsacyber, @ridt, @us_cybercom, @780thc, @shanvav, @jseldin, and @cnmf_cyberalert
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote — Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row.
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Tweets: @nprinskeep, @cruellaisdevine, @vanitaguptacr, @facebook, @lalasoo, @andymstone, and @theleadcnn
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Braket on AWS, which provides a development environment for designing quantum and hybrid algorithms — Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides …
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| New York Times: |
In discrimination case against Oracle, Labor Department lawyer says Secretary Eugene Scalia broke with normal practice in seeking a smaller settlement — A Labor Department lawyer asserts that she faced reprisal after saying Secretary Eugene Scalia was set to settle a suit for a sum she found too low.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Michigan and Alphabet-backed Cavnue want to build a dedicated road for autonomous vehicles between Detroit and Ann Arbor, plus a software standard to access it — Companies have poured tens of billions into driverless vehicles, but they have yet to change how we get around—we still rely on cars and trucks driven by humans.
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Detroit Free Press, MLive.com, Michigan Daily, Crain's Detroit Business, detroitnews, Associated Press, and CNET. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
TikTok's US-based employees plan to file a lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order claiming the order would make it illegal for TikTok to pay them — Employees say the order would bar TikTok from paying them. — TikTok's US employees are planning to file a lawsuit challenging … Sponsor Posts
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