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
The order opens up a new avenue for purchases on the iPhone — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a permanent injunction …
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 .
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
one of the linchpins of the internet economy — may be ending.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Great summary/quotes. Look beyond the (one) headline. #epicvapple It is very rar...
Apple won the Epic battle but is too arrogant to see that it still has to make some major App Store changes to both appease the courts and please developers
Apple v. Epic indeed... It depends on what your definition of a link is. Or really, in some ways, what your definition of the internet is.
Small developers say the Epic ruling could lead to a windfall but some researchers say it is unclear if consumers will actually use alternative payment methods
After a judge opened up a way to avoid Apple's commission on their sales, companies big and small are seeing dollar signs.
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 …
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
A close read of the injunction in Epic v. Apple — Today the judge in Epic v. Apple issued a lengthy ruling holding …
Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation
A new study finds that Microsoft's companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside … Source: Nature .
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 …
Kuo: iPhone 13 Pro lineup will gain 1TB storage option; Apple to announce AirPods 3, but will continue to sell current generation AirPods too
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has chimed in on what he expects to see during Tuesday's Apple Event, and is taking some stabs at pricing.
Google says it handed over user data in response to three requests from Hong Kong in H2 2020, despite earlier saying that requests must 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.
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/... Patrick McGee / @patrickmcgee_ : Judge finds Apple *is* engaging in anticompetitive condu...
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.
How FBI and Australian police built and marketed the An0m chat service for criminals, which cost $1,700 for a handset and $1,250 for an annual subscription
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem … Tweets: @evansthecrime , @chey_cobb , @simonparkin , and @awinston Tweets:...
NYC-based Orchard, which offers cash to homebuyers upfront for a new home before selling their old one, raises $100M Series D at a valuation of more than $1B
- Company raises $100 million in round led by Accomplice — Modernizing housing market is ‘capital intensive,’ CEO says
Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone will be the next CEO of Yahoo following the closure of Apollo's acquisition of Yahoo on September 1
Denmark-based Corti, a SaaS startup using AI to help health professionals improve patient consultations on phone or video in real time, raises $27M Series A
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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
Noam Cohen / Wired : Tweets: @mattzollerseitz , @evilgalprods , @drewmcweeny , @jonathbruns , @leonidragozin , @sol_orwell , @garius , @ffrafaction , @janedarnell , @manvbrain , @noamcohen , and @rau...
Sources: US officials are considering a Financial Stability Oversight Council review into whether Tether and other stablecoins threaten financial stability
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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
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Bezos' biggest legacy could be “Bezosism”, using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jensmithwsj , @mims , @mims , @jathansadowski , @greg_ip , @mims , @gregbensinger , @todd_yancey , and @hypervisible Tweets: Jennifer Smith / @jensmi...
Number of UK unicorns grew 10x in the last decade, with invested capital growing from €1B/year to €13B/year, but some worry Brexit will counteract the change
Financial Times : Tweets: @nathanbenaich , @danielthomasldn , @financialtimes , and @tbraithwaite Tweets: Nathan Benaich / @nathanbenaich : The environment for UK tech founders has come leaps and bou...
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
Rick Klau / California Department of Technology : Tweets: @drhew Tweets: David Rhew / @drhew : Thank you California Department of Technology (@rklau) for making available CA's digital vaccine record ...
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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