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January 27, 2024, 7:30 AM

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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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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 …

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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

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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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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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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 …

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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

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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.

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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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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 …

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

A look at Midnight Blizzard, also known as Cozy Bear, a Russia-linked hacking group that has allegedly recently hacked the email systems of Microsoft and HPE

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