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| Venkat Eswarlu / MSPoweruser: |
Google updates Chrome's Incognito disclaimer after a privacy settlement, saying that Incognito mode “won't change how data is collected” by Google and others — Readers help support MSPoweruser. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple revises its US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, but will charge a 27% commission, or 12% for small business developers — In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple's appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has announced a handful …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Filing: Apple seeks $73.4M in legal fees from Epic, including a 10% discount since Epic prevailed on one of 10 counts, after SCOTUS declined to hear the appeals — Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the North Carolinian games maker.
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| Bloomberg: |
More: AppleInsider, Reuters, CNN, Tech.co, PC Gamer, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GamesIndustry.biz, MediaNama, Wall Street Journal, O'Grady's PowerPage, Fortune, MSPoweruser, SamMobile, Polygon, Associated Press, Android Headlines, The Information, PYMNTS.com, games fray, Daring Fireball, iClarified, Mobilegamer.biz, and Financial Times
Mastodon: @b_fung@masto.ai. X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @dhh, @munster_gene, @macton93, @eric_seufert, @carnage4life, @games_fray, @rizstanford, @stephentotilo, @games_fray, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @drbarnard, @florian4gamers, and @kaelandc
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five of the top suppliers that helps hackers infect devices with malware — PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. — UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers …
More: Quarkslab's blog, HotHardware, US-CERT, and iTnews
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Wired: |
Researchers describe a GPU vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate data from local memory on some devices with Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and other chips — Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Engadget: |
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min — We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU's DMA — Google will tweak online search results to give comparison sites more prominence, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, AppleInsider, TNW, and Euractiv. X: @lutherlowe
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA and the FBI warn that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet to steal credentials for AWS, Microsoft 365, and other cloud apps — CISA and the FBI warned today that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet focused on cloud credential theft …
More: Cybersecurity …, SC Media, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, WinBuzzer, CSO, Infosecurity, Security Affairs, The Register, and SiliconANGLE
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app on Mac, Windows, iOS, and the web with an optional Notion integration, after buying the calendar app Cron in June 2022 — Does the world need more calendar apps? That's the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion … | Financial Times: |
CoinShares: US bitcoin ETFs had $871M of net inflows in the first three days of trading, including $723M inflows at BlackRock and $1.18B outflows at Grayscale — Grayscale has outflows of $579mn as investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products
More: Bloomberg, NYDIG, The Block, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, Blockworks, and Bloomberg. X: @jseyff
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Alphabet's Wing unveils a new drone that can carry up to five pounds, fly a 12 mile round trip, and cruise at 65mph, set for deployment in the next 12 months — If drone delivery is going to go mainstream, it's going to need bigger aircraft that can handle more stuff.
More: Wing Blog, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, The Messenger, and DroneDJ
| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level — Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch. — For four years, the computer scientist … | Gartner: |
Global chip revenue dropped 11% YoY to $533B in 2023; Intel regained top spot with $48.7B, followed by Samsung's $39.9B; Nvidia was top five for the first time — - Memory Revenue Poised to Record One of the Worst Downturns in History — Intel Regained No. 1 Spot from Samsung
More: Tom's Hardware, IT | Aju Korea Daily English, and Neowin
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The US Treasury and the IRS say they are not currently enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report getting $10K+ in digital assets within 15 days of receipt — The tax law would require business-related crypto transactions over $10,000 to be reported like cash, but it's not quite ready yet.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon now lets US users create AI-generated backgrounds using Alexa prompts on the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series — Amazon is officially rolling out the ability to create AI-generated images on Fire TV devices. Starting today, the feature is available …
More: The Verge, About Amazon, ZDNet, TechHive, TechRadar, SlashGear, 9to5Toys, Cord Cutters News, Android Central, and Digital Trends
| Financial Times: |
Lexington, Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage's Pinegrove, and StepStone are raising billions to buy stakes in VC-backed tech startups via secondary share sales — Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates — Investment firms are raising billions … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
The Internet Watch Foundation: 100K+ webpages featured self-generated CSAM in the past year, up 66% YoY; a record 275,655 webpages in total had CSAM, up 8% YoY — Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption
More: Sky News, The Internet Watch Foundation, and The Independent
X: @iwfhotline and @suojellaanlapsi
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A study monitoring product review queries on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo for a year suggests that search engines are losing the cat-and-mouse game of SEO spam — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
More: Mashable, Webis, Search Engine Land, The Overspill, and Search Engine Roundtable
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