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| Damien Geradin / The Platform Law Blog: |
Apple's changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show its disdain for both the DMA and app developers — Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's proposed App Store and iOS changes seek to retain as much control over iOS as possible while staying within the letter of the EU's DMA — Apple yesterday announced a broad, wide-ranging, and complex set of new policies establishing their intended compliance with the European Union's …
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| Spotify: |
Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the EU's established principles — For almost five years - 1,782 days - we have been asking the European Commission to take action against Apple.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
While App Store changes apply to all of Apple's platforms, iPadOS, which doesn't meet DMA thresholds, won't get third-party app stores, browser engines, more — Yesterday, Apple announced some major changes to the App Store and the broader iPhone platform in the European Union, including support for alternative app marketplaces.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Fossil Group plans to leave the smartwatch business, and says the company will continue to keep its existing Wear OS watches updated “for the next few years” — Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. — The company announced this afternoon that it would leave …
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Threads: @durrellb.r, @durrellb.r, and @eshumarneedi
Forums: Hacker News, r/gadgets, r/technology, r/Android, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mozilla criticizes Apple's plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations” — Apple's new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS.
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Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social. X: @opera, @film_girl, @opera, @tomwarren, @keleftheriou, and @baekdal. LinkedIn: Justin Willis
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator's account after researchers said the company's tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall — Company's technology used to create fake Biden recording, researchers say — The creator of an audio deepfake of US President Joe Biden urging people …
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Threads: @brianrbarrett. X: @hackingbutlegal, @pindrop, @samgregory, @sf_mills, @knibbs, and @lynnmdoan. Forums: Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google is testing an ARM64 version of Chrome for Arm-based Windows devices — Google appears to be readying a version of its popular Chrome browser for Windows on Arm. X (formerly Twitter) user Pedro Justo spotted a native version of the browser for Windows 11 Arm-powered devices … | Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF becomes the first of the recently launched spot bitcoin products to reach $2B in assets under management, within 10 days of its debut — The fund now holds nearly 50,000 bitcoin after adding almost another 4,300 tokens on Thursday. — Register Now| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Pixel 8 Pro's Thermometer app, which uses an infrared sensor to scan the forehead, has a fiddly user experience and appears to have accuracy issues — Earlier this week, Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro to let its strange new temperature sensor finally take readings of human bodies.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft says some users may be experiencing “multiple issues” with Microsoft Teams, and that it is applying “mitigations across the affected infrastructure” — Was it a joyous outage where you got to relax, or did something mission-critical go wrong?
More: BleepingComputer, Associated Press, Global News, Microsoft, Business Today, The Register, Cybernews.com, Tech Xplore, Neowin, CRN, and International Business Times
Threads: @fredericl. X: @msft365status, @msft365status, @msft365status, @msft365status, @msft365status, @erikdarlingdata, and @infosecsav
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A look at the US Copyright Office, which is in the spotlight as it plans to release three key reports in 2024 revealing its position on copyright law and AI — The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
More: Internet Archive Blogs. X: @stevelohr, @knibbs, @toddbigphoto, @dm_cooper, @jeffplatsky, and @tvol
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