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| Niléane / MacStories: |
Apple releases iOS 17.4 with a new default browser prompt in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more — Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long” — Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
After the EU's ruling, Spotify submits an app update to Apple to provide pricing info within its iOS app in the EU and link users to its subscription options — Spotify isn't going to launch the in-app purchases it previously planned for the European Union, at least right now.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing when the company “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him” — Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY to 13M — Google Pixel is coming off of its best-selling year to date, but according to one report, Google shipped fewer Tensor chips in Q4 2023.| Reuters: |
A BlackCat ransomware gang website shows a takedown notice; the UK NCA denies involvement and experts suggest an exit scam after an alleged UnitedHealth payment — A website used by hackers responsible for a breach at UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) has been replaced by a notice saying it has been seized by international law enforcement.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Under regulatory pressure on cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's Azure fees remain — Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, end support for the Amazon Appstore on Windows too — Microsoft is ending support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 next year. The software giant first announced …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Windows11, r/WSA, r/microsoft, r/gachagaming, r/Android, r/Surface, r/windows, r/technology, and r/dotnetMAUI
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products — Tech company policies have put a chill on independent AI research, says open letter — More than 100 top artificial intelligence …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok moves its Creativity Program, now rebranded as the Creator Rewards Program, out of beta, and requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized — A year ago, TikTok introduced a new way for creators on the platform to make money: make longer videos.
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a March 21 announcement of a Surface Laptop 6 and OLED Surface Pro 10, both offered with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips — Microsoft's first AI PCs will be unveiled on March 21, ahead of next-gen Windows 11 AI features coming this fall. — What you need to know
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Forums: r/hardware and r/Surface
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results — Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results …
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LinkedIn: Francesco Lorenzo, Lily Ray, David Gossage, and Emil Protalinski
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce releases Einstein 1 Studio, letting developers customize its Salesforce Einstein Copilot assistant, released in beta last week, at TrailblazerDX — Salesforce is continuing its generative AI push with the availability today of the company's Einstein 1 Studio …
More: SiliconANGLE, CIO.com, Salesforce, and diginomica
| Financial Times: |
Email: Spanish data protection regulator AEPD demands Worldcoin ceases collecting personal data in the country, and gives Worldcoin 72 hours to prove compliance — Spain has moved to block Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
NIST staff, US officials, congressional aides, and tech executives detail a massive resource gap between NIST, tasked with keeping AI safe, and tech companies — Funding challenges at the National Institute of Standards and Technology could jeopardize the Biden administration AI work
X: @kylebrussell and @cat_zakrzewski
| Michael J. Totten / City Journal: |
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers — Machines can now talk with us in ways that aren't preprogrammed. They can draw pictures, write passable (if generic) …
X: @sapinker, @jacobjaber, @cityjournal, @cityjournal, and @bgurley
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google Pay rose almost 6% — - Paytm loses usage even before any disruption to its systems — Services of Walmart, Google capitalize on Paytm's troubles| Diane Brady / Fortune: |
Accenture plans to acquire online learning company Udacity and announces LearnVantage, a learning suite the company pledges to expand with $1B over three years — In her first webcast, on her first day as CEO of Accenture in 2019, Julie Sweet announced the launch of a Technology Quotient program …
More: TechCrunch, Accenture, TechCircle, Constellation Research, and SiliconANGLE
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Dutch government creates a taskforce to address ASML's issues, including expatriate workers and grid congestion, to keep ASML in the Netherlands — - Government has set up a task force to keep ASML in Netherlands — The Netherlands has lost Shell, Unilever to relocations
More: Reuters and The Register
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations — If AI is so magical, why are so many chatbots dumb as rocks? — Amazon is experimenting with an artificial intelligence chatbot to help you figure out what to buy.
More: TechCrunch and Axios
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