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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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Interfax: Apple has removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by Roskomnadzor — U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store, following a request by Russia's state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Interfax reported on Thursday.| 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.| 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 …
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Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit up 1,452% YoY to ~$7.54B, and revenue up 23% YoY to ~$53.7B, as chip prices keep rising from a mid-2022 to end-2023 trough — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) estimated on Friday a more than 15-fold rise in its second-quarter operating profit …
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| 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
More: CoinDesk, The Verge, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, and crypto.news
| 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.
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Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all its customers — Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.
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Mastodon: @heracles@mastodon.social. X: @cloudflare, @gergelyorosz, @rami_bball_fan, @nfergu, @theobsguy, @carlhendy, @scottkrauss, @mattfthompson, @drale2k, @rustybrick, @youraimarketer, @gergelyorosz, @alex, @iliedaboutcake, @digitalbizweb, @jenstirrup, and @gergelyorosz
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
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The EC asks Amazon to provide more information on its compliance with DSA provisions concerning the transparency of Amazon's recommender systems by July 26 — The European Commission said on Friday it had requesting Amazon (AMZN.O) provide more information on the measures the U.S. e-commerce giant …
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TRM: cryptocurrency stolen through hacks more than doubled to $1.38B in H1 2024 from a year earlier; five large attacks accounted for 70% of the crypto stolen — - Attack on Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin was biggest in 2024 — Amount is still below the record 2022 level, TRM says
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: in early 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging systems and accessed product details; OpenAI told its staff, but not the public or the FBI — A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI's systems.
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X: @oliverrochford. LinkedIn: Michael Spencer. Forums: r/singularity, r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
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