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Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15% for any developer that earns less than $1M in revenue per year from their apps, starting January 1 — Any developer that earns less than $1 million in revenue per year is eligible — On Wednesday, Apple announced a reduction to its longstanding App …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's move will affect ~98% of developers that pay the company a commission, but they accounted for less than 5% of App Store revenue last year — App makers bridled at the 30 percent commission, which has drawn scrutiny from regulators looking into antitrust claims.
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
Trump says he has fired CISA Director Christopher Krebs, baselessly calling Krebs' previous statement on the security of the 2020 election “highly inaccurate” — - President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter that he has “terminated” top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg says Facebook won't moderate Trump differently once he leaves office but spokesman says he'll be fact-checked; Twitter will end special treatment — Many world leaders generally have wider latitude on Twitter and Facebook because their comments and posts are regarded as political speech …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Fortnite now offers Houseparty video calls on PC, PS4, and PS5; users need the Houseparty app installed on an iOS or Android device, which functions as a webcam — Houseparty wants to change the way that people communicate while playing video games. The company, which offers …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Marissa Mayer's Lumi Labs, now called Sunshine, unveils Sunshine Contacts, an AI-powered contact organizer app for iOS — Marissa Mayer shoves her iPhone toward her MacBook's webcam until it overwhelms the screen on the Google Meet video call we are sharing. — “I admire Apple,” she declares.
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
M1 completes Steve Jobs' vision of Apple making “the whole widget” for all the devices in the company's product line — Even as Apple's final event of 2020 gradually becomes a speck in the rearview mirror, I can't help continually thinking about the new M1 chip that debuted there.| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse — Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French social app Yubo, with 40M+ users, raises $47.5M Series C led by existing and new investors including Iris Capital and Gaia Capital Partners — French startup Yubo is the biggest social media app you've never heard of — unless you're a teen. With a focus on young people under 25 …
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SoundCloud says it's rolling out verified badges for users who are “well-known and/or highly searched-for artist, collective, DJ, label, curator or podcaster” — Big news: SoundCloud is rolling out profile verification. Official blue checkmarks will now show up in search and on profiles of verified creators.| Henny Sender / Nikkei Asia: |
Inside the collapse of Ant Group's $37B IPO as Jack Ma underestimated the extent to which he was regarded as a threat by the CCP — the date of Singles' Day, the Alibaba-led shopping extravaganza — Jack Ma released a short film. A slick, 22-minute production titled “Gong Shou Dao” … | Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
One month after its discovery, researchers say a Telegram bot that makes fake nudes of women continues to operate and the service has done little to stop it — A bot automated deepfake abuse online. Researchers say their warnings have been ignored and Telegram has failed to remove it| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Abnormal Security, which uses behavioral profiling to identify fraudulent emails, raises $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, source says at a $500M valuation — Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar do not come from cybersecurity backgrounds. The pair linked up at TellApart …
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Google can help remove a strong incentive for criminals to steal and leak emails by rotating and publishing DKIM keys, which provide proof of an email's origin — The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Trust & Will, a digitally native will and estate planning startup, raises $15M Series B, led by Jackson Square Ventures — Let's get something morbid out of the way right up front: estate planning is a growth business in 2020. Whether you need to create or update a will, build a family trust …
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