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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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| Damien Geradin / The Platform Law Blog: |
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Fossil Group plans to exit the smartwatch business but update its Wear OS watches “for the next few years”; the Gen 6 from 2021 will be Fossil's last smartwatch — Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. — The company announced this afternoon that it would leave …
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| 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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple removes a requirement that apps with third-party log-ins must offer Sign in with Apple, but requires an equivalent option with certain privacy features — There's another small but notable change coming to the App Store. Apple has revised its App Store guidelines to remove the requirement …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator's account after Pindrop's researchers said ElevenLabs' 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 …
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| 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| Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US plans to award billions in subsidies to Intel, TSMC, and other chip makers in coming weeks, amid concerns about slow implementation of CHIPS Act — Industry, lawmakers worry semiconductor production could take years because of negotiations, permitting and worker shortages
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people — Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth … | 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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