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Sources: the US DOJ plans to sue Apple as soon as Thursday, accusing the company of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing iPhone features — - Lawsuit to be filed in federal court as soon as Thursday — Case comes as iPhone maker also faces scrutiny in Europe
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, MacRumors, Barron's Online, iMore, MarketWatch, 24/7 Wall St., The Overspill, PhoneArena, The Information, Patently Apple, SiliconANGLE, iDrop News, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, Supercharged, and AppleInsider
Threads: @parkerortolani. Mastodon: @sdw@mastodon.social, @johnvoorhees@mastodon …, @paul@tapbots.social, @viticci@mastodon …, and @elkmovie@mastodon.social
X: @mrddmia, @jeiting, @bdsams, @openwebadvocacy, @florian4gamers, @jwsherrod, @dhh, @steipete, and @dhh
Forums: r/apple, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| CNBC: |
Reddit priced its IPO at $34 per share, the top of its expected range, raising $519M and valuing the company at about $6.5B, ahead of its market debut — In this photo illustration a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. — Reddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums …
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X: @yuris, @mikeisaac, @katie_roof, @tomaxwell, and @akhenosiris
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Epic plans to release its Epic Games Store on iOS and Android later in 2024, with the same terms as the PC store, including a 12% commission on sales — With plans to launch its own game store on iOS, it's now been announced that the Epic Games Store is coming to Android.
More: Unreal Engine on YouTube, Unreal Engine, 9to5Mac, GamesIndustry.biz, Android Police, MacRumors, PhoneArena, KitGuru, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Neowin, Gizchina, Android Central, Business Standard, The Indian Express, Ghacks, Press Start, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, How-To Geek, Wccftech, TechRaptor, Dot Esports, Liliputing, Mobilegamer.biz, Android Authority, Pocket Gamer.biz, and Droid Life
Threads: @parkerortolani. Mastodon: @elkmovie@mastodon.social, @elkmovie@mastodon.social, and @thurrott@twit.social
X: @epicgames, @om, @timsweeneyepic, @wilson_boi_101, @timsweeneyepic, @dylanmcd8, @om, @chancehmiller, and @uwukko. Forums: r/Games
| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match Group file an amicus brief in Epic v. Apple protesting Apple's plan to charge a commission for payments made outside the App Store — Four tech companies object to Apple's new app store policies related to payment for services
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, AppleInsider, NewsBytes, MSPoweruser, Business Today, PYMNTS.com, Malay Mail, Business Insider, Forbes, The Information, Supercharged, Engadget, and MacRumors
Threads: @shiraovide, @documentingmeta, and @eshumarneedi
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Neuralink shows its first brain implant patient, a 29-year-old man paralyzed from the shoulders down, playing online chess using the Neuralink device — In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 29-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.
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X: @neuralink, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @cb_doge, @austen, @mayfer, @mayemusk, @nikitabier, @autismcapital, @xnews, @ashleevance, @shaunmmaguire, @pierre_crypt0, @shivon, @cb_doge, @lindayax, and @growing_daniel
Forums: Hacker News, r/gaming, r/singularity, r/Futurology, r/technology, r/teslainvestorsclub, and r/Neuralink
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM claimed to be built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials by legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures — OpenAI claimed it's “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube TV rolls out Multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch four TV channels at once; Android support will roll out “in the coming months” — Google has confirmed that YouTube TV is now rolling out support for Multiview on the iPhone and iPad, but the feature won't arrive on Android for a while.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
BlackRock unveils its first tokenized asset fund, BUIDL, built on the Ethereum network and fully backed by cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements — The asset management giant also made a strategic investment in asset tokenization company Securitize.
More: BlackRock, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Blockonomi, Forbes, CryptoSlate, CryptoGlobe, Unchained, CoinGape, Decrypt, Crowdfund Insider, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, and crypto.news
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
After a classified briefing on TikTok, the Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing” — - But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.
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X: @ashleyrgold, @nathanleamerdc, and @ashleyrgold
| Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: |
X: @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @mark_histed, @theatlantic, @niubi, and @dlberes
Forums: r/technology, r/JordanPeterson, and r/politics
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying the aim is to restrict the use of such devices “to legitimate actors only” — A Canadian regulatory agency says the aim is to restrict the Flipper Zero ‘to legitimate actors only.’ — Michael Kan
More: BleepingComputer, Change.org, and Gizmodo
| Bloomberg: |
A UK jury finds Jian Wen guilty of laundering bitcoin for a Chinese fugitive allegedly behind a ~$6B fraud in China; police had seized BTC worth $2.2B+ in 2018 — - Jury finds Jian Wen guilty on one count of money laundering — Jian helped Chinese fugitive Zhimin Qian launder Bitcoin
More: BBC, Protos, Blockonomi, Sky News, The Guardian, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, CoinGape, CoinDesk, Financial Times, and Reuters
Forums: r/unitedkingdom, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot
| Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
In a research paper, Google Research details how AI helped to provide accurate flood forecasting in over 80 countries up to seven days in advance of the flood — A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods …
More: Google AI Blog, Engadget, Hindustan Times, Nature, Google Research on YouTube, Android Authority, BetaNews, Business Green, and NewsBytes
LinkedIn: Kate Brandt, Juliet Rothenberg, and Adam Elman
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Temu and Shein have supplanted Walmart and Target as focal points in internal Amazon meetings related to retail, as Amazon explores new promo campaigns — The e-commerce companies with Chinese roots have, for now, replaced Walmart and Target as Amazon's central competitive focus| Financial Times: |
Chinese state media: during his visit to Shanghai, Tim Cook says “there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China” — Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country … | Alfred Ng / Politico: |
The US House passes a bill to prevent data brokers from selling personal data to China, Russia, or other “foreign adversaries”; the bill now heads to the Senate — The first major Capitol Hill action on tech in years passes the House with broad support — and steers straight …
More: The Verge, MediaNama, Engadget, The Record, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, and The Michigan Daily. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub releases code scanning autofix, powered by Copilot and CodeQL, in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, to help them fix vulnerabilities — It's a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now …
More: The GitHub Blog, TechRadar, Constellation Research, BleepingComputer, InfoWorld, and Developer Tech News
X: @github. LinkedIn: Thomas Dohmke, Casey Honan, Andrew Labus, and Shawn Kelley. Forums: r/technews
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies — Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies … | NBC News: |
Sources: after more than six months, the FBI has resumed limited outreach to some US tech companies about foreign propagandists using their platforms — The agency put the briefings on pause amid lawsuits and government scrutiny. — The FBI has resumed some of its efforts to share information …
X: @ericgeller and @kevincollier
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm
More: PYMNTS.com, Cryptonews, The Block, Reuters, Financial Times, CoinGape, CoinDesk, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph. X: @niubi
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
X suspends the accounts of some journalists and researchers who posted the alleged real name of neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss, after Stonetoss appealed to Musk — Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss.
More: Advocate, News18, Anonymous Comrades Collective, and Mashable
Mastodon: @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes …, @jalefkowit@octodon.social, @SteveThompson@mastodon.social, and @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @osomatic.bsky.social
X: @hannahgais, @gwensnyderphl, @mollyfud, @stevanzetti, @daithaigilbert, @stevanzetti, @tom___scott, @mauraleelang, @realbugsycat, @imgentledamnit, @blackknight10k, @jaredlholt, @mattbinder, @daithaigilbert, @burger_meister6, @westmm4028, @daithaigilbert, and @mollyfud. LinkedIn: Anthony Duignan-Cabrera. Forums: r/technology
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