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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games files an antitrust suit against Apple, arguing the App Store is a monopoly, seeking no damages but just injunctive relief to “allow fair competition” — Epic has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit following Apple's removal of Fortnite from the App Store
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple has removed Epic Games' Fortnite from the App Store after the developer implemented its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple's standard 30% fee — Apple says Epic is violating its App Store guidelines by using its own payment system — Apple has removed Epic Games' battle royale Fortnite …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic enables a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android alongside the existing method, to get around app store fees; buying direct is up to 20% off — Plus, V-bucks get permanently discounted — Today, Epic announced the Fortnite “mega drop,” a permanent discount on V-bucks …
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| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Accompanying its lawsuit, Epic released a 1984-inspired Fortnite short, parodying Apple's iconic Macintosh commercial — Epic is taking on the Apple App Store, with a video and a lawsuit — Epic premiered a new short video in Fortnite on Thursday called “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite.”
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Tweets: @fortnitegame, @michaelpachter, @snazzyq, @shiraovide, and @caseynewton
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google removes Fortnite from its Play Store, argues that although its Android ecosystem is open, Epic's decision violates store policies — You can still install it directly from Epic, however — Following its removal from the Apple App Store, Fortnite has also been kicked off of the Google Play Store for Android.
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9to5Google, Wccftech, SlashGear, Android Central, and GameSpot
Tweets: @lexnfx, @martinsfp, @dannypage, @benbajarin, @zhugeex, @lanceulanoff, @aaron_pearce, and @tomwarren
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October — Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
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Tweets: @genepark, @pkafka, and @markgurman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple, Disney, and others participated in a White House call over the potential WeChat ban, arguing it could undermine their competitiveness in China — Companies including Apple, Disney and Walmart participate in call with White House over action against China's most important app| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees — The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
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Engadget, On my Om, Axios, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, Financial Times, Sacramento Business Journal, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @talkpoverty, @phonesoldier, and @wagatwe
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote — Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row.
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Tweets: @facebook, @theleadcnn, and @andymstone
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers say a now-patched Alexa vulnerability could have been exploited to hand over users' personal data, voice recordings, banking data history, and more — Subdomains belonging to the service were found to be harboring CORS errors and vulnerable to XSS attacks.
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Check Point Research, Wired, TechHive, Voicebot.ai, TechRepublic, CNET, Mashable, Silicon Republic, and Neowin. Tweets: @checkpointsw
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations' cryptocurrency accounts” …
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Bloomberg, Decrypt, CNET, Wired, Engadget, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, New York Times, Fortune, Reuters, and irs.gov
Tweets: @lachlan, @cbs_herridge, and @theryanford
| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations — The National Security Agency and the FBI are jointly exposing malware that they say Russian military hackers use in cyber-espionage operations.
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Threatpost, International Business Times, Federal Bureau …, Reuters, Federal Computer Week, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @nsacyber, @ridt, @us_cybercom, @780thc, @shanvav, @jseldin, and @cnmf_cyberalert
| Brian J Barth / OneZero : |
A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders — Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn't play along. — October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Michigan and Alphabet-backed Cavnue want to build a dedicated road for autonomous vehicles between Detroit and Ann Arbor, plus a software standard to access it — Companies have poured tens of billions into driverless vehicles, but they have yet to change how we get around—we still rely on cars and trucks driven by humans.
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Detroit Free Press, MLive.com, Michigan Daily, Crain's Detroit Business, detroitnews, Bloomberg, CNET, Associated Press, and TechCrunch. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel offers a first look at its next-gen Tiger Lake processors and Xe graphics, both of which promise higher performance and lower power consumption — Architecture Day 2020 offers a preview of Intel's future — Intel's Architecture Day 2020 brought a first look at the company's upcoming …
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CNET, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Hardware, SemiAccurate, Reuters, Ars Technica, PCWorld, VentureBeat, AnandTech, TheStreet, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, and Thurrott
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
YouTube bans videos containing info obtained through hacking that could interfere with the election and will remove content that encourages meddling in voting — The Google-owned video site will also take down content that encourages meddling in the voting process.| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
Beike, a Chinese online property brokerage backed by Tencent and Softbank, raises $2.12B in its US IPO, with the stock up 87%, despite US-China tensions — KE Holdings stock shot up 87% in first day of trading, as CFO tells MarketWatch it is 'affirmation of our company's culture of transparency and collaboration'
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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