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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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| 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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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill, affecting the success of new platforms like Vision Pro — Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced by state entities and governing bodies: Alternative payment methods … | Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
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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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the browser-related iOS changes in the EU, including letting users set their default out of the 12 most popular browsers in their country's App Store — The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc's Digital Markets Act …
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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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| 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 … | 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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 17.4 code shows that Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and Messages, comparing their responses to results from OpenAI's ChatGPT — Apple is widely expected to unveil major new artificial intelligence features with iOS 18 in June.
More: AppleInsider, AppleInsider, and The Verge
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft details the techniques that the Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard used to breach the email accounts of its executives and other organizations — Microsoft confirmed that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service hacking group, which hacked into its executives' email accounts in November 2023 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
| 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?
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| CNBC: |
Layoffs.fyi: so far in January, around 23,670 workers have been laid off from 85 tech companies, the most since March 2023 when ~38,000 people were laid off — - So far in January, some 23,670 workers have been laid off, the most in any month since March, according to the website Layoffs.fyi.
More: NBC 7 San Diego, International Business Times, and NBC News
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: Flexport plans to lay off ~20% of workforce, its third round of cut in just over a year; it has ~2600 employees after cutting 20% of staff in October — Flexport plans to lay off nearly 20% of its workforce in the coming weeks, representing several hundred roles, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: Fortune, FreightWaves, and TechCrunch
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple that the company had revoked access due to irregular activity — Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Now, they say Apple has blocked the messaging service on their Macs.
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, AppleInsider, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more — WIRED spoke with a member of Meta's Oversight Board about how the company plans to handle elections around the world in 2024.
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| PYMNTS.com: |
Proof, which provides legal document serving, e-filing, and other online litigation services, raised a $30.4M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners — Proof Technology has secured $30.4 million in Series B funding to advance its online litigation services marketplace.| 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.
More: Benzinga, Yanko Design, KnowTechie, and TechCrunch
| 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 …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Chamath Palihapitiya shelved plans to raise $1B for an early-stage investment fund, in part due to fundraising challenges — - Social Capital last summer reportedly sought to sell a large number of its investment holdings. … - He continues to invest via his own balance sheet.
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Source: MGM Resorts International's BetMGM is partnering with X to showcase betting odds on X and provide a direct link to BetMGM, allowing users to place bets — Elon Musk's X to incorporate online gambling statistics into platform. — MGM Resorts International's online gambling subsidiary BetMGM …
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