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The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more — Justice Department says iPhone maker leveraged its dominance to block software and limit functionality of competing devices
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay — Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
More: US Department of Justice, Wired, Fast Company, Wccftech, Hollywood Reporter, InsideEVs, and Carscoops
Threads: @parkert, @jonathansposts, @ashzade_, @davie_jens, @reckless1280, @gergelyorosz_, and @gergelyorosz_. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @niedermeyer.io. X: @dorajfacundo
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ — The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.
More: MacStories, Hypebeast, Ars Technica, Spyglass, PCWorld, Neowin, Daring Fireball, and The Verge
Threads: @benedictevans, @eric_seufert, @agraham999, and @benedictevans
| Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: |
The DOJ's Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was — The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia sued Apple for antitrust this morning in federal court.
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Threads: @parkerortolani, @bzamayo, @pkedrosky, @pkedrosky, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
Mastodon: @siracusa@mastodon.social and @danilo@hachyderm.io
X: @parkerortolani, @swiftonsecurity, @mgsiegler, @benbajarin, @stevesi, @thurrott, @jonfortt, @asteveparker, @charlesarthur, @eriqgardner, @stevesi, @gchampeau, @s8mb, @papscun, @ryanaraine, @modestproposal1, @mgsiegler, @mattrosoff, @munster_gene, @charlesarthur, @briancalbrecht, @benbajarin, and @hbkirb. Forums: r/apple
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says the US DOJ winning its lawsuit “would set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology” — The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of operating …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, Daring Fireball, XDA Developers, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Payments Dive, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, London Evening Standard, and The Register
Threads: @eshumarneedi, @mossbergwalt, @chancehmiller, and @technicallymims
X: @jolingkent, @sdw, and @sdw
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an unpatchable vulnerability in Apple's M-series of chips that lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs during cryptographic operations — Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance. — A newly discovered vulnerability baked …
More: GoFetch, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, iThinkDifferent, SiliconANGLE, and Six Colors
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social, @threatresearch@infosec …, @harrysintonen@infosec …, @ilumium@eupolicy.social, @ngorby@mastodon.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @aram@aoir.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @Kensan@mastodon.social, @Kensan@mastodon.social, and @Kensan@mastodon.social
X: @sweis, @danielgenkin, and @matthew_d_green
LinkedIn: Ken Tindell and Avesta Hojjati, Ph.D.
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/apple, r/mac, r/MacOS, r/technology, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI to encourage protecting personal data, monitoring AI for risks, and safeguarding human rights — The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence …
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Forums: r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon — Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Reddit closes up 48%, at $50.44 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9.5B on a fully diluted basis — - Social media company, holders raised $748 Million in IPO … The San Francisco-based company's stock closed at $50.44 each on Thursday in New York …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/stupidpol, r/news, r/CryptoCurrencyMoons, and r/wallstreetbets
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator: |
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny — - Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU's Big Tech clampdown — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines
More: The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, MSPoweruser, The Crypto Times, Gizchina, CoinGape, and Channel NewsAsia
Mastodon: @malwaretech@infosec.exchange and @tob@hachyderm.io
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more — Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won't be sold directly to consumers.
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X: @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @markhachman, and @tomwarren
| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure — Microsoft doesn't want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI's co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition.
More: Benzinga, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and The Decoder
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Changing policy, X bans the posting of real names of people behind anonymous accounts, after it suspended accounts that unmasked a suspected neo-Nazi cartoonist — Some X users said the move was another example of Musk going out of his way to defend neo-Nazis, antisemites and white supremacists.
More: Advocate. Threads: @vpsreports, @lorakolodny, @e.w.niedermeyer, and @esqueer_
Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange and @SteveThompson@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
X: @leftcoastist, @msymchuk, @tomcoates, @tomodell, @martinimaas, @tweetbynatasha, @pavldozer, @drmistercody, @rontech777, @blakmaclives, @gschifanelli, @pan_dejo_, @hawksgirl80, @stealthmedical1, @ellamae_content, @shnozzmoana, @ttecclesbrown, @raderje, @romanvalentinus, @aridrennen, @taliaotg, @network_synth, @evan_r_mclaren, @beneluxtesla, @againstgrmrs, @sikataraeda, @eyesontheright, @stevanzetti, @agoldmund, @mehdirhasan, @acabylonbee, @daithaigilbert, @safety, and @ldrogen. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone delivery in the US, starting in Christiansburg, VA, after launching a pilot program in Australia in 2022 — DoorDash is expanding its partnership with Alphabet's Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.
More: DoorDash, Wing Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, New York Post, and Business Insider
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Foundry, a cloud computing service provider focused on AI workloads, comes out of stealth after raising $80M across a seed and a Series A at a $350M valuation — Jared Quincy Davis was inspired by AlphaGo. You know, the AI program that plays Go, the 2,500-year old Chinese strategy game?| Buster Benson / The Medium Blog: |
Medium says it will revoke Partner Program enrollment from writers who publish AI-generated stories, even with disclosure, and other low-quality content — Protecting Medium's mission and authentic writers means doing more to protect quality — We know you've seen it: spammy comments that say nothing of value.
X: @ruialves_rnh, @ltm, and @burkr_
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally — The letter, also signed by CrowdTangle's former CEO, claims shutting it down is a “direct threat” to researchers' work
More: Mozilla Foundation. Threads: @silvermanbrandon, @silvermanbrandon, @andymstone, and @silvermanbrandon
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M — The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
Threads: @moys1lva. Mastodon: @andyn@social.lol. X: @browsercompany, @_shankarganesh, @jackrandalll, @joekndy, and @vanlancker. Forums: r/ArcBrowser
| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Baiju Bhatt plans to step down to pursue other entrepreneurial interests, but will remain on the company's board — Bhatt to remain a member of the board — Robinhood Markets co-founder Baiju Bhatt will step down from his chief creative officer role … | Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
MediaTek introduced Dimensity Auto Cockpit, its automotive-focused SoCs, this week, becoming the first third-party company to use Nvidia's GPU IP in its chips — MediaTek this week has introduced a new lineup of Dimensity Auto Cockpit system-on-chips, covering the entire market spectrum from entry-level to premium.
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