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Apple approves the Epic Games Store on iPhones and iPads in the EU, after Epic said it was blocked due to buttons and labels being similar to the App Store's — Apple (AAPL.O) said on Friday it has approved Epic Games' games marketplace app on iPhones and iPads in Europe, after the “Fortnite” …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this” — Mere hours after reports circulated that Apple had declined to approve the Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU …
More: Thurrott, The Verge, PhoneArena, Gizchina, and Notebookcheck
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Interfax: Apple removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor — U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store, following a request …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about reuniting with Square Enix to bring his company Mistwalker's Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian to PC and consoles — More than two decades ago, video-game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi parted ways with the company now called Square Enix Holding Co. At the time, it was an unexpected move.
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LinkedIn: Rafael Brown and Jason Schreier
Forums: r/TerraBattle, r/FinalFantasy, r/PS5, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Mt. Gox starts repaying customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoins, but now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings — Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it's a $9 billion windfall.
More: Mt. Gox, CNBC, CoinDesk, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Decrypt, NewsBTC, Coinbay, Quartz, NBC News, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, NBC News, CryptoGlobe, and The Crypto Times
Threads: @lovingnotworking. X: @intangiblecoins, @cnbc, @krugermacro, @dotkrueger, @lastcallcnbc, and @ashcryptoreal. LinkedIn: Coinbay
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/Bitcoin
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: to lessen its reliance on Safari for iOS, Google considered limiting AI Overviews to its own mobile apps, but ultimately decided against such a move — Sometime in the next few months, a judge is expected to rule on the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of internet search.| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
A test of seven Copilot+ PCs, representing all four Snapdragon X chips, against similar laptops with Apple Silicon, Intel Core Ultra, and AMD Ryzen processors — We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.
More: 9to5Mac, Spyglass, iMore, Notebookcheck, ZDNet, and Mashable
Threads: @amartino. Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org. X: @liliputingnews. Forums: r/Surface and r/hardware
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs launches Voice Isolator, a freemium AI tool for removing background noise from audio files for film, podcast, and interview post production — ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup known for its voice cloning, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech models, has just added another tool to its product portfolio: an AI Voice Isolator.
More: ElevenLabs, Maginative, and Cryptopolitan
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
French AI research lab Kyutai, which launched in November with €300M in funding and is backed by billionaire Xavier Niel, demos its AI voice assistant Moshi — A French artificial intelligence research lab backed by billionaire Xavier Niel showed off a new voice assistant with a variety …
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Mastodon: @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com. X: @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, @ryanmorrisonjer, @guillaumgrallet, @ryanmorrisonjer, @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, @javilopen, and @kyutai_labs
LinkedIn: Bernardo Perobeli and Joshua Meyer
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates its Erase Song tool for creators with an AI algorithm to detect and remove any copyrighted music from their videos without impacting other audio — On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music …
More: Creator Insider on YouTube, Google Help Center, 9to5Google, Boing Boing, Android Authority, Neowin, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Mashable, and NewsBytes
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
California court complaint: two ex-executives at Tether-backed Northern Data say they were fired after raising concerns about alleged fraud by the CEO and COO — Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe's biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre- builder| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
As Glaze, a free tool to help artists prevent AI from copying their style, sees an “explosion in demand”, researchers say its protections can be bypassed — Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates. — For many artists, it's a precarious time to post art online.
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