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Apple announces App Store updates under the EU's DMA, including letting developers offer apps on their websites via a new 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.
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| 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” …
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| 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 … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google confirms rolling out restrictions to limit Gemini surfacing answers on election queries globally; the update is live in the US and rolling out in India — If you want to ask Google's AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place.
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| 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
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 phone time — Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don't have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious.
More: The Guardian, 9to5Mac, CNN, Associated Press, NBC News, Washington Post, NBC Bay Area, and Axios
| 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.
More: PetaPixel, The Markup, and Cryptopolitan
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| 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
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| Associated Press: |
The IRS launches Direct File, a free online tool to let some taxpayers in 12 US states file their federal income taxes; the IRS says 19M people may be eligible — After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available for taxpayers from 12 selected states.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta sues ex-VP Dipinder Singh Khurana for allegedly stealing documents related to employee pay and private contracts before leaving for a stealth AI startup — - Khurana allegedly took employee pay docs and private contracts — Meta says eight employees followed Khurana to new startup
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| 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 — - Apple is testing a new AI-powered tool for optimizing App Store ad campaigns. — The tool mimics Google's Performance Max … | Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel survived an effort to halt laptop chip sales to Huawei under a Trump-era license, after AMD pressured Biden; source: AMD sought a similar license — Intel has survived an effort to halt hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of chip sales to Huawei, two people familiar with the matter said …
More: Tom's Hardware, Investing.com, and Huawei Central
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