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Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP — A major win for Epic Games and Fortnite — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple says it won't let Epic Games back in the App Store unless Epic agrees to “play by the same rules as everyone else” — Unless Epic complies with App Store rules, that is — Apple says it won't let Epic Games back in the App Store until they agree to “play by the same rules as everyone else.”| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS — - Judge says all apps can bypass the company's purchase fees — Apple makes majority of its App Store revenue from games
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| TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp will start rolling out e2e encrypted backups to iOS and Android users in the coming weeks as an optional feature — WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Internal docs: Google realized last year it illegally underpaid temp staff in many countries for years, but was slow to fix the issue fearing negative publicity — The company realized months ago that it could be running afoul of pay laws in a number of countries but has been slow to fix the problem, according to internal documents.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Apple intends to double its output of TV shows and movies next year to at least one a week and plans to spend $500M+ on marketing Apple TV+ this year — When Apple launched its Apple TV+ service nearly two years ago, executives throughout Hollywood and Silicon Valley snickered about the streaming video service.
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone will be the next CEO of Yahoo following the closure of Apollo's acquisition of Yahoo on September 1 — Mr. Lanzone will join Yahoo as CEO later this month — Apollo Global Management Inc. is naming Tinder Chief Executive Jim Lanzone the new CEO of Yahoo …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple has resolved its Apple Watch Series 7 production issues and will start mass production mid to late September, with shipping set for late September — Apple has resolved its Apple Watch Series 7 production issues and will start mass producing the new model in mid to late September …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Sonos says it is raising prices for a majority of its product range amid the supply chain crunch — Its devices will cost from $10 to $100 more — Sonos has announced that many of its speakers will be getting a price increase, ranging from $10 more for its portable Roam, to $100 more for its Arc soundbar.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Twitch sues two anonymous users, accusing them of “hate raids” harassing Black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist, and other content — The lawsuit accuses two anonymous users of “targeting black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple has fired senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking confidential information; Gjøvik has been tweeting about workplace issues — For months, Gjøvik has been tweeting allegations about harassment and intimidation at Apple| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Facebook says data it provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed — More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted with posts … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint — The law is an escalation of a conservative critique of Silicon Valley and will likely to face legal challenges from the industry
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| Financial Times: |
In a consultation document, UK government suggests removing human review of some AI decisions, in a reversal of EU data protection laws — Excising Article 22 of Brussels regulations would alarm privacy campaigners — The government will put itself on a collision course with data privacy campaigners …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Toronto-based Cohere, founded by two ex-Google Brain team members to commercialize natural language AI models, raises $40M Series A led by Index Ventures — The ability of computers to understand and generate language took a huge leap forward in 2017 when researchers at Google developed …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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