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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
As the EU's DMA takes effect, sources say the Biden administration, which sent two letters protesting the DMA, stopped short of pushing the issue with the EU — The European Union's landmark Digital Markets Act comes into effect today, requiring changes at five U.S. internet giants
More: TechCrunch, Fortune, European Commission, Reuters, TNW, International Business Times, The Hollywood Reporter, FSFE, CNBC, Financial Times, Associated Press, The Irish Times, WinBuzzer, BEUC, Washington Post, The Register, and Chamber of Progress
Threads: @eric_seufert, @documentingmeta, and @benedictevans
| Wall Street Journal: |
How the EU's DMA could impact Apple and Google's rivalry; sources say Google lobbied EU officials in 2023 to let users download apps from alternative app stores — Under the new rules, the iPhone maker will open up parts of its lucrative app ecosystem, providing an opportunity for rivals like Google
More: Open Web Advocacy, The Verge, MacRumors, naked capitalism, and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU confirms requesting further explanations from Apple over removing Epic's developer account under the DMA, and is examining if Apple broke any other rules — - Epic Games barred by Apple from opening own iPhone app store — EU says it is looking to see if firm has broken new tech law
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Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Computerworld, Epic Games, Wall Street Journal, Video Games Chronicle, HotHardware, Reclaim The Net, Laptop Mag, Digital Music News, Gizmodo, Fortune, Root-Nation.com, Silicon Republic, London Evening Standard, AppleInsider, MediaNama, Developer Tech News, TechRadar, GamesIndustry.biz, iThinkDifferent, iMore, MacDailyNews, and The Verge
Mastodon: @ambulephabus@mastodon.social and @ChanceHMiller@mastodon.social
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
MacBook Air (2024) review: sturdy and sleek, fast M3 chip, excellent 13- and 15-inch displays, great keyboard, and solid speakers, but USB-C is only on one side — Apple's M3 chip is a decent speed bump, but the M2 MacBook Air remains a great deal. — It's hard to expect much from Apple's new M3-equipped MacBook Airs.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 — Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 …
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Macworld, AppleInsider, Thurrott, 9to5Google, BGR, and Supercharged
Forums: r/apple, r/Android, r/technology, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending billions on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally across Google services in the past year — Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill — A push notification warns that the move ‘strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.’
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X: @tiktokpolicy, @byrnehobart, @mattocko, @ali_lev, @maxwelltani, @peterhamby, @chrislhayes, @devin_vering, @mattocko, @olivia_beavers, and @roybahat. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Forums: r/technology
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple's only foldable device with a “clear development schedule” is the 20.3-inch MacBook, which is expected to enter mass production in 2027 — We've been hearing a lot of rumors about Apple working on multiple foldable devices. While most of them refer to devices similar …
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X: @mingchikuo and @raywongy
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a New Era of Work event on March 21 at 9am PT, where updates to Windows 11, Microsoft Copilot, Surface Pro, and Surface Laptop are expected — New Surface hardware and Windows 11 features will be announced on March 21. — What you need to know
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Inflection launches Inflection-2.5, which for weeks has helped its chatbot Pi perform “neck and neck with” OpenAI's GPT-4, and says Pi has 1M DAUs and 6M MAUs — - CEO Mustafa Suleyman said he is particularly pleased that Inflection 2.5 achieved these results while using only 40% of the training compute as GPT-4.| Eric Tucker / Associated Press: |
The US DOJ charges former Google software engineer Linwei Ding with stealing AI trade secrets from Google while secretly working with two China-based companies — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company …
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Threads: @thebrianpenny. X: @tastybits, @imposecost, @swiftstories, @ncscgov, @austen, @arekfurt, @kevincollier, @pmarca, @vxunderground, @thejusticedept, @committeeonccp, and @eamonjavers
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Conservative, r/fucktheccp, and r/bayarea
| Reuters: |
Spotify plans to raise its prices in France due to a new tax law that adds a 1.2% tax on streaming companies' revenue to help finance local music creation — Swedish streaming service Spotify (SPOT.N) on Thursday said it would increase its prices in France due to a new tax, which it argued would fail to accomplish its intended goal.
More: Spotify, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Music News, Neowin, Music Ally, and Billboard
| Tatiana Siegel / Variety: |
Sources: Apple spent $700M+ of its reported $1B+ 2023 studio spend on just Napoleon, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Argylle, which earned $466M combined — On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon …
More: MobileSyrup, Dexerto, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Deadline, 9to5Mac, and Business Insider
Forums: r/tvPlus and r/boxoffice
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Paris-based Zama, an open-source cryptography startup developing fully homomorphic encryption technology for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $73M Series A — Zama SAS, an open-source cryptography startup focused on building fully homomorphic encryption or FHE technology to protect privacy …
More: Zama blog, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, Tech.eu, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, IEEE Spectrum, Crowdfund Insider, The Crypto Times, NFTgators, Cointelegraph, FinSMEs, CoinGape, SecurityWeek, TechCrunch, Hackread, Multicoin Capital, Coinspeaker, TNW, Bloomberg, Metaverse Post, Tech Startups, Security Boulevard, Tech Funding News, Cryptonews, and The Block
| Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple's failed EV project: indecision, prototypes, and partnership or acquisition talks with Mercedes-Benz, BMW, VW, Tesla, McLaren, and others — Tim Cook shut down plans to acquire Tesla before cycling through a junkyard's worth of self-driving designs over the past decade.
More: Cult of Mac, Redmond Pie, iMore, iThinkDifferent, Tom's Guide, Spyglass, Benzinga, Business Insider, Financial Times, AppleInsider, Six Colors, MacRumors, and MacDailyNews
Threads: @sokane1. X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @gartenberg, @sdw, @sdw, @counternotions, @tufre80, @stevemoser, and @markgurman
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/cars, and MacRumors Forums
| Dina Genkina / IEEE Spectrum: |
Research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the LLM itself, raising suspicions that a fair portion of prompt engineering jobs may be a passing fad — Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering …
More: VentureBeat and arXiv
X: @calonghurst, @calonghurst, @ieeefuturedir, @dinkazavr, and @ieeespectrum. LinkedIn: Vasudev Lal. Forums: Hacker News
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020 — The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. X: @fxshaw, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @martijnrasser, @mattmday, @rj_gallagher, and @williamturton
| Cynthia Kroet / Euronews: |
After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR — After clarification from Luxembourg, the Belgian Court of Appeal will now rule on the case. — IAB Europe's online advertising …
More: Irish Council …, TechCrunch, and IAB Europe
X: @jason_kint, @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, and @jason_kint
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Denver-based Todyl, a cybersecurity startup focused on SMBs, raised a $50M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $83.8M — Networking and security startup Todyl Inc. said today it has raised $50 million in new funding to grow its cybersecurity platform that enables companies … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: after the resolution of the Sequoia-Klarna ordeal, Klarna's co-founders continue to clash on key governance decisions, like post-IPO control of Klarna — - Recent boardroom spat stemmed from tension between co-founders — Pair continue to clash as company explores potential IPO
X: @mhbergen and @aishagani
| James Reddick / The Record: |
FBI: in 2023, Americans reported $12.5B+ in losses to online fraud, up 22% YoY; losses to investment fraud grew 38% YoY to $4.57B, with $3.94B related to crypto — More than $12.5 billion was lost in 2023 to online fraud in cases reported by the American public, according … Sponsor Posts
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