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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils App Store updates for the EU, including letting qualifying developers offer apps on their websites via a Web Distribution tool from spring 2024  —  Last week, Apple released iOS 17.4 with big changes to the iPhone and App Store ecosystem to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Union.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft launch Speedometer 3.0, a benchmark to “create a shared understanding of web performance”; Speedometer 2.0 debuted in 2018  —  Speedometer has long been Google's preferred benchmark, previously noting how it's the “most reflective of the real world” …
The SP Android:
Analysis: TikTok's app code shows a separate TikTok Photos app, a potential Instagram rival that syncs with the main app and may debut “soon” on iOS and Android  —  Tiktok has dominated the short form video market from a long time and other platform like Instagram and YouTube copied …
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
An interview with Pavel Durov on running Telegram, which has ~50 full-time staff, its Dubai HQ, reaching 1B MAUs in 12-14 months, Russia, moderation, and more  —  As the messaging platform gears up for a potential stock market flotation, it is under pressure to curtail use by criminals
Washington Post:
Sources: in summer 2023, Donald Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social, but no deal was made; Trump advisers say the pair have talked politics  —  The idea went nowhere, but the former president and the billionaire X owner have continued to communicate more than was previously known
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Nigeria has held Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla in Abuja without any charges or their passports since February 26, per their families  —  Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens: 38% say they spend too much time on their phone, vs. 27% for too much social media; girls are more likely to report too much time on both  —  Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don't have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Epic plans to charge non-game developers $1,850 per seat per year to use Unreal Engine from late April with version 5.4, as opposed to a royalty-based game fee  —  Fortnite developer Epic Games will charge non-game developers an annual subscription of $1,850 “per seat” to use its Unreal Engine …
More: 9to5Mac
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
A profile of several AI “doomers”, including AI Impacts researcher Katja Grace, and “effective accelerationists”, as both make arguments about the future of AI  —  Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better.  Others fear it may destroy us.
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more  —  A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user's prompt into a website or video game.  —  A new installment of Silicon Valley's …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
As Google removes nonconsensual deepfake porn video URLs after complaints, experts urge Google to remove the biggest deepfake sites from search results entirely  —  Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News to join CBS News as chief correspondent on January 5, reporting across the network as well as lead correspondent for 48 Hours

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump attacks Paramount owners as “no better than the old ownership”, demanding an apology from 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl for Marjorie Taylor Greene interview

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Steven Bartlett's FlightStory makes a “seven-figure” investment in Maggie Sellers Reum's Hot Smart Rich, whose podcast reached 1.8M+ downloads in its first year

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Isaac Taylor / Wall Street Journal:
Eye Security, which provides cyber protection, incident response, and cyber insurance tools, raised a €36M Series B led by JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Sources: Apple is testing an AI-powered ad tool that automatically decides where to place ads within the App Store, similar to Google's Performance Max ad tool

Earlier Picks

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI rebuts Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying OpenAI didn't violate its founding agreement because “there is no founding agreement, or any agreement at all”
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
AI-powered robot maker Covariant debuts RFM-1, an AI model the company says can process physics, may limit the need for bespoke robotics programming, and more
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.3B, meeting expectations, and cloud services and license support revenues up 12% YoY to $9.96B; ORCL jumps 9%+
Forbes:
A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant
Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune:
TikTok uses a non-disparagement clause in RSU contracts, perhaps to silence staff, an unusual practice; one ex-staffer claims a share buyback offer was withheld
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Airbnb will no longer let hosts use indoor security cameras, starting April 30, citing renters' privacy; previously, cameras in common areas had been allowed
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU privacy watchdog EDPS says the European Commission using Microsoft 365 breached privacy rules and the EU didn't implement adequate data transfer safeguards
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription
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