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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's proposed App Store and iOS changes seek to retain as much control over iOS as possible while staying within the letter of the EU's DMA — Apple yesterday announced a broad, wide-ranging, and complex set of new policies establishing their intended compliance with the European Union's …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
While App Store changes apply to all of Apple's platforms, iPadOS, which doesn't meet DMA thresholds, won't get third-party app stores, browser engines, more — Yesterday, Apple announced some major changes to the App Store and the broader iPhone platform in the European Union, including support for alternative app marketplaces.
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| Spotify: |
Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the EU's established principles — For almost five years - 1,782 days - we have been asking the European Commission to take action against Apple.
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| Damien Geradin / The Platform Law Blog: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple removes a requirement in EU where apps with third-party logins must offer Sign in with Apple, but requires an equivalent option with some privacy features — There's another small but notable change coming to the App Store. Apple has revised its App Store guidelines to remove …
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| Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US plans to award billions in subsidies to Intel, TSMC, and other chip makers in coming weeks, amid concerns about slow implementation of CHIPS Act — Industry, lawmakers worry semiconductor production could take years because of negotiations, permitting and worker shortages
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Patently Apple, and Cryptopolitan
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF becomes the first of the recently launched US spot bitcoin products to pass $2B in assets under management, within 10 days of its debut — The fund now holds nearly 50,000 bitcoin after adding almost another 4,300 tokens on Thursday. — Register Now| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
In his new book, a16z VC Chris Dixon argues blockchain is a morally neutral tech that regulators must differentiate from the crypto industry's casino culture — In his new book Read Write Own, investor Chris Dixon mounts a defense of blockchain, arguing it can save society from the monopoly power of tech giants.
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| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
FTX is unloading cryptoassets as bankruptcy advisers look to repay customers; filings: its affiliates' cash pile grew from $2.3B in October to $4.4B at 2023 end — - Cash of key affiliates rose to about $4.4 billion at end-2023 — Increased cash coincided with rising value of customer claims
More: CoinGape
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Fossil Group plans to exit the smartwatch business but update its Wear OS watches “for the next few years”; the Gen 6 from 2021 will be Fossil's last smartwatch — Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. — The company announced this afternoon that it would leave …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Microsoft Teams service and features “have been restored or have returned to optimal health”, after going down on January 26 for over eight hours — Was it a joyous outage where you got to relax, or did something mission-critical go wrong?
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people — Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth …
Mastodon: @abominabledrh@mastodon.ie. Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @jwherrman, @nymag, and @jwherrman. Forums: Hacker News
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A look at the US Copyright Office, which is in the spotlight as it plans to release three key reports in 2024 revealing its position on copyright law and AI — The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
More: Internet Archive Blogs. X: @knibbs, @stevelohr, @toddbigphoto, @dm_cooper, @jeffplatsky, and @tvol
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