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The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023 — The move means Apple has six months to make sure its tablet ecosystem complies with a raft of preemptive measures under the EU's flagship Digital Markets Act.
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Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full-Self Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit — - Carmaker to partner with tech giant Baidu on maps, navigation — Musk sought clearance from Beijing for potential revenue boost
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The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles — Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models
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| Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: |
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam — The Manor Lords video game released this weekend by a small independent studio in Poland has sold more than a million copies …
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Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback — Apple's top rivals are revamping their strategies for smartphones and headsets in a sign they smell an opportunity.
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Sources: Meta's Oversight Board told some staff last week that their jobs were at risk, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly — The Oversight Board, which Meta started in 2019 as an experiment in content moderation, has faced criticism for moving too slowly and cautiously| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so — Seven years ago, a cyberattack left many of the most popular websites based in the United States inaccessible.
More: GOV.UK, 9to5Mac, The Register, and BetaNews
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Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season — Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic … | Scott Nover / Fast Company: |
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram — Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. Soon enough, Meta AI will be everywhere …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave his incorrect birth date — OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Getir plans to close its quick grocery delivery operations in the US, the UK, and Europe to focus on its home market of Turkey, impacting 6,000+ jobs — True to its business concept, Turkey's “instant delivery” juggernaut Getir rose quickly. Now, with the quick commerce industry in free fall, it is nosediving just as fast.| Wall Street Journal: |
US lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill — Combination of coordinated efforts by its critics and missteps by the company led to the law forcing a sale or ban of the popular app
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