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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account — Apple today announced major changes to its app ecosystem in the European Union, implementing updates that will allow iPhone …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple's “anticompetitive scheme rife with new junk fees” is illegal under the EU's DMA and an example of “malicious compliance” — Apple announced a slew of App Store policy changes today to conform to the EU's Digital Market Act …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Epic Games plans to launch its Epic Games Store on the iPhone in the EU in 2024, which will include its popular game Fortnite — Epic Games plans to bring its Epic Games Store to the iPhone and the iPad under Apple's new alternative app store policy in the European Union, Epic Games announced today.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says anyone looking to develop an alternative app marketplace needs to submit a €1M “letter of credit” to “guarantee support for developers and customers” — Apple today officially announced support for third-party app stores in the European Union, as part of iOS 17.4.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
More: MSPoweruser and The Information
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| The Verge: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Apple begins allowing game streaming apps and services globally, meaning that Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce Now, and others can be turned into full-featured apps — Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. This means that services …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Microsoft plans to lay off ~1,900 staff at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, or ~8% of its Microsoft Gaming workforce, this week — Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
An NSA letter to Sen. Ron Wyden reveals the agency buys logs related to Americans' domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers without warrants — The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to allow default third-party browsers, like Chrome, Edge, and Brave, and web engines in the EU with iOS 17.4, prompting Safari users on first launch — Apple is making major changes to how web browsers can operate on iPhone for customers in the EU. iOS 17.4 will introduce …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Mysk: iPhone apps including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and X are skirting Apple's privacy rules to collect user data through push notifications — Security researchers say apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and countless other use notifications as a loophole to skirt privacy protections.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The US FTC opens a probe into investments by Microsoft in OpenAI and by Amazon and Google in Anthropic, to assess how the deals alter the competitive landscape — The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI announces 25% to 50% lower GPT-3.5 Turbo prices, a GPT-4 Turbo preview model to reduce cases of “laziness”, improved text embedding models, and more — OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion.
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
The George Carlin estate sues Dudesy, which released a comedy special featuring an AI-generated recreation of George Carlin, alleging copyright infringement — “We have to draw a line in the sand,” says daughter Kelly Carlin, who sued creators of an hourlong special titled 'George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead.'| New York Times: |
A Cruise report finds its top executives' adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet — A law firm's review found that executives had failed to fully explain an October crash, which the Justice Department is also investigating.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.4B vs. $15.15B est., Data Center and AI down 10% YoY to $4B, and Q1 revenue guidance below estimates; INTC drops 10%+ — - Intel issued an outlook for the first quarter of 2024 that lagged analyst estimates. — Intel shares are down slightly …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
X is flooded with AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift; one post, live for 17 hours, had 45M+ views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and 24K reposts — Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Bastille, which uses hardware sensors for wireless monitoring to stop espionage in offices, raised a $44M Series C led by Goldman Sachs' venture arm — - Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round. — Zartasha Chaudhry, vice president at Goldman, is also joining Bastille's board.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
LA County agrees to pay $5M to election software maker Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, who was wrongly arrested and charged in 2022 with mishandling voter data — Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of breaching election data. Those charges were dropped weeks later.
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google's web-based app development suite Project IDX adds an Android emulator, an iOS simulator, new project templates, and more — Project IDX, Google's all-in-one web-based, AI-enhanced app development suite, is delivering on some of its early promises. Among other improvements …
More: Android Central, The Register, Thurrott, ZDNet, InfoWorld, SD Times, and TechCrunch
X: @_davideast, @burnsworthryan, @jaydanurwin, and @googledevs
| Jennifer Creery / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan plans to spend ~$7.4M on the Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine, or Taide, an LLM for businesses, banks, and other customers, to counter China's influence — - Island developing secure tool for companies, lenders to use — Taiwan has been striving to move up AI development chain| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds support for transcripts to the Podcasts app in iOS 17.4 beta and says transcripts will be generated automatically after an episode is published — Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 17.4 today, and there are a couple of changes to the Apple Podcasts app.
More: MacStories, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, and Six Colors
X: @stevesi, @benthompson, @benthompson, and @stevesi
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