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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's €0.50 Core Technology Fee in the EU would lead to a free or freemium app with 2M annual “first installs” paying $540K+ a year even if no money is earned — App developers in the European Union who choose to opt in to Apple's new business terms must pay an €0.50 …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
More: Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
More: The Platform Law Blog, mjtsai.com, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, Pixel Envy, and MacRumors
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A look at browser-related iOS changes in the EU, including letting users choose one of the 12 most popular browsers in their country's App Store as the default — The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc's Digital Markets Act …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TipRanks Financial, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Wccftech, Android Authority, Gizchina, Mobile World Live, GSMArena.com, The Register, Lifewire, and 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Mysk: iPhone apps including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and X are skirting Apple's privacy rules to collect user data through push notifications — Security researchers say apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and countless other use notifications as a loophole to skirt privacy protections.
More: #Privacy on YouTube, Mashable, Reclaim The Net, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, diginomica, New York Post, ITBusiness.ca, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, The Mac Observer, and BGR
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Forums: Hacker News, r/gadgets, r/technology, r/privacy, and MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise up to $6B from family offices in Hong Kong and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East at a $20B valuation — Tesla chief targets $20bn valuation in bid to take on OpenAI — Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise up to $6bn …
More: The Information, Business Today, TechStartups, Crypto Daily, MSPoweruser, Reuters, and Gizmochina. Forums: r/singularity
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the lack of a Netflix app on the Apple Vision Pro, the WWE deal, content strategy, ads, competition, and more — I am pleased to welcome Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters for a Stratechery Interview. Peters was named the co-CEO of Netflix …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
An NSA letter to Sen. Ron Wyden reveals the agency buys logs related to Americans' domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers without warrants — The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
More: AppleInsider, PCMag, Engadget, TechSpot, Metacurity, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …, Nextgov/FCW, 9to5Mac, The Record, Reuters, The Messenger, and The Verge
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and Slashdot
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Salesforce plans to lay off ~700 employees, or ~1% of its staff, after cutting 10% of its workforce in January 2023; the company has 1,000 open jobs — The layoffs, which will affect around 1% of its workforce, follow a 10% reduction last year — Salesforce is laying off around … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever — From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow's offensive hacking …
Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.exchange and @agreenberg@infosec.exchange
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Review of Honor's Magic V2 foldable, launching in UK and Europe for £1,700: very thin and durable but has a dated OS and processor, and software issues — It's thin and light enough to feel like a regular smartphone when folded. That's impressive. I just wish Honor's software were as svelte.
More: Honor Newsroom, CNET, Forbes, 9to5Google, Android Police, T3, TalkAndroid.com, TechRadar, BGR, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, Mashable, Trusted Reviews, and GSMArena.com
| Bloomberg: |
Omdia: Nintendo plans to introduce a new Switch gaming console in 2024 with an 8" LCD screen; the current seven-year-old Switch has sold over 132M units — - The next console from Kyoto company to have 8-inch LCD — Seven-year-old Switch console has sold over 132 million units
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Mastodon: @topintech@flipboard.social. X: @6d6f636869. Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/Games, r/nintendo, r/NintendoSwitch, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Lightspeed Venture Partners seeks to sell stakes in 10 startups, worth ~$1B, to a private equity-style continuation fund, to let investors cash out — Venture capital firm plans to roll holdings into continuation fund as sector seeks ways to return cash to investors| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Baidu partners with Samsung to integrate its Ernie chatbot into Galaxy S24 smartphones in China, allowing users to translate calls in real time and more — - Chinese tech giant Baidu will partner Samsung to integrate its Ernie chatbot capabilities into Galaxy S24 smartphones.
More: The Economic Times, 9to5Google, Cybernews.com, The Verge, SamMobile, Gizmochina, and TechNode
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple access was revoked due to irregular activity; Beeper: ~3.5K users reported outages — Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones.
Mastodon: @lcruggeri@mastodon.uno and @digfish@masto.pt
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds support for transcripts to the Podcasts app in iOS 17.4 beta and says transcripts will be generated automatically after an episode is published — Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 17.4 today, and there are a couple of changes to the Apple Podcasts app.
More: TechCrunch, Thurrott, MacStories, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, iMore, Podnews, The Verge, SamMobile, PhoneArena, Engadget, NewsBytes, AppleInsider, and Six Colors
X: @stevesi, @benthompson, @benthompson, and @stevesi
| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A federal judge sentences OneCoin lawyer Mark Scott to 10 years in prison for his role in laundering millions of dollars through the crypto scheme — A court convicted Mark Scott of two felony counts related to bank fraud and money laundering in November 2019. — Total views Total shares
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Epic Games plans to launch its Epic Games Store on the iPhone in the EU in 2024, which will include its popular game Fortnite — Epic Games plans to bring its Epic Games Store to the iPhone and the iPad under Apple's new alternative app store policy in the European Union, Epic Games announced today.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Fortune, GSMArena.com, Digital Trends, TheGamer, Game Developer, Video Games Chronicle, TechRadar, Gameranx, iMore, Gizchina, T3, Wccftech, PhoneArena, Thurrott, Business Post, The Information, GameSpot, Gizmodo, Esports.gg, Shacknews, GamesRadar, Hypebeast, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, Eurogamer.net, Wccftech, IGN, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
More: Music Ally, Silicon Republic, HEY, Business Insider, Coalition for App Fairness, The Verge, Android Headlines, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Supercharged, Digital Content Next, and AppleInsider
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