Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP
A major win for Epic Games and Fortnite — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case … Source: United States District Court .
Apple warns that long-term exposure to vibrations, like those from high-power motorcycle engines, can degrade iPhone cameras by damaging their gyroscopes
Apple today published a new support document warning iPhone users that the cameras on their devices can be damaged by exposure … Source: Apple Support .
Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed
More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …
A fair reading of the Epic vs. Apple injunction suggests that Apple needs to allow third-party payment methods in the app and not just links to ones on the web
it specified buttons and external links, which means they are presumed to be distinct. So a button can't just be an external link that kicks you to Safari.” - good read by @reckless https://www.thev...
Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in South Korea, after passage of a bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems
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Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp will start rolling out e2e encrypted backups to iOS and Android users in the coming weeks as an optional feature
WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put …
Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS
- Judge says all apps can bypass the company's purchase fees — Apple makes majority of its App Store revenue from games
The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump's last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change
Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a cybersecurity pilot project.
Benioff says Salesforce will help employees and their families “exit Texas” if they are worried about access to reproductive healthcare in the state
- Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they're concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care …
Judge rules that Apple is not required to reinstate Epic's App Store account, orders Epic to pay damages for selling IAP on the iOS version of Fortnite directly
Profile of Ksenia Coffman, who has made 97K edits and created 3,200 pages on Wikipedia, and her efforts to remove glorified Nazi history from the site
Ksenia Coffman's fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources. Tweets: @sol_orwell , @ffrafaction , @jane...
Internal docs: Google realized last year it illegally underpaid temp staff in many countries for years, but was slow to fix the issue fearing negative publicity
it's about the life that it allows workers to build for themselves outside of the workplace. But for years Google executives chose to deny their workers a better quality of life due to fears of “incre...
Canon to acquire Canadian chipmaker Redlen after buying the remaining 85% stake for $270M; Redlen's tech to help Canon reduce radiation exposure in CT scanners
Nikkei Asia : Source: Canon Global .
Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone will be the next CEO of Yahoo following the closure of Apollo's acquisition of Yahoo on September 1
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Twitch sues two anonymous users, accusing them of “hate raids” harassing Black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist, and other content
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Google says it handed user data in response to three requests from Hong Kong during H2 2020, despite earlier saying that requests have to be made through US DOJ
The US tech giant told HKFP it complied with a data request over a “credible threat to life” and two others involving human trafficking.
Kuo: Apple has resolved its Apple Watch Series 7 production issues and will start mass production mid to late September, with shipping set for late September
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California releases front end and middle tier code for its Digital Vaccine Record on GitHub to help other states deploy SMART Health Card systems of their own
By Rick Klau State Chief Technology Innovation Officer September 10, 2021 - Soon after we launched the Digital Vaccine Record portal in June … Tweets: @drhew Tweets: David Rhew / @drhew : Thank you Ca...
Zoom has invested an additional $30M in Norway-based Neat, which makes video conferencing devices, bringing its total investment to $41M
Joseph F. Kovar / CRN :
Sonos says it is raising prices for a majority of its products amid the supply chain crunch
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Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021
Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren. Tweets: @kevincollier , @kevincollie...
Antitrust action in Europe and the US is inevitable and Apple should rethink its stance towards regulators, often described as arrogant to inflexible
in service of a greater W on the privacy, security, and trust that are core to its brand. https://time.com/...
Sources: Stripe is in early discussions with investment banks about going public as soon as next year, either through a direct listing or an IPO
- Stripe is still deciding on an IPO vs. a direct listing — Company would be one of the biggest ever to go public
Toronto-based Cohere, founded by two ex-Google Brain team members to commercialize natural language AI models, raises $40M Series A led by Index Ventures
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Tweets: @blancheminerva , @jordanjacobs10 , @jordanjacobs10 , @nathanbenaich , and @nickfrosst . Thanks: @jenholmes Tweets: Stella Rose Biderman / @blancheminerva : The...
Match Group appoints Renate Nyborg as the new CEO of Tinder; Nyborg last served as Tinder's general manager of Europe, Middle East, and Africa
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Kakao and its subsidiaries have lost $16B+ in market value this month amid S. Korea's tech crackdown and as some lawmakers call the company “a symbol of greed”
Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg :
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint
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Sources: US and EU are in talks to allow companies, including Facebook and other US tech firms, to keep storing and accessing Europeans' personal data in the US
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