Apple revises its US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, but will charge a 27% commission, or 12% for small business developers
In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple's appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has announced a handful …
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min
We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.
Filing: Apple seeks $73.4M in legal fees from Epic, including a 10% discount since Epic prevailed on one of 10 counts, after SCOTUS declined to hear the appeals
Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the North Carolinian games maker.
SCOTUS refuses to hear Apple's and Epic's appeals, allowing an appeals court ruling that lets app developers steer users to other payment systems take effect
which is that Apple can no longer block in-app links to web-based account management portals — is that Apple (and Google) can still charge a fee on external purchases, as I detail here: https://mobile...
Apple details select streaming and sports apps available on Vision Pro at launch, including Disney+, ESPN, MLB, PGA, Max, and TikTok; some will have 3D movies
from Avatar: The Way of Water to Avengers: Endgame Wes Davis / The Verge : Apple Vision Pro will launch with 3D movies from Disney Plus Samantha Wiley / iLounge : HBO Max to be natively supported on V...
Researchers describe a GPU vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate data from local memory on some devices with Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and other chips
Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
FCC filings seem to indicate that the Apple Vision Pro lacks the chips needed to support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, and Wi-Fi 7
but there's a good reason for that Abid Iqbal Shaik / SamMobile : Apple Vision Pro lacks Wi-Fi 6E and UWB connectivity Jade Bryan / nextpit : Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro is Stuck with a Slower Wi-Fi 6 N...
Google updates Chrome's Incognito disclaimer after a privacy settlement, saying that Incognito mode “won't change how data is collected” by Google and others
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The US Treasury and the IRS say they are not currently enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report getting $10K+ in digital assets within 15 days of receipt
The tax law would require business-related crypto transactions over $10,000 to be reported like cash, but it's not quite ready yet.
A study monitoring product review queries on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo for a year suggests that search engines are losing the cat-and-mouse game of SEO spam
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The CISA and the FBI warn that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet to steal credentials for AWS, Microsoft 365, and other cloud apps
CISA and the FBI warned today that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet focused on cloud credential theft …
CoinShares: US bitcoin ETFs had $871M of net inflows in the first three days of trading, including $723M inflows at BlackRock and $1.18B outflows at Grayscale
Grayscale has outflows of $579mn as investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products
Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five of the top suppliers that helps hackers infect devices with malware
PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. — UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers …
Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU's DMA
Google will tweak online search results to give comparison sites more prominence, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday …
Alphabet's Wing unveils a new drone that can carry up to five pounds, fly a 12 mile round trip, and cruise at 65mph, set for deployment in the next 12 months
If drone delivery is going to go mainstream, it's going to need bigger aircraft that can handle more stuff.
Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level
Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch. — For four years, the computer scientist …
The Internet Watch Foundation: 100K+ webpages featured self-generated CSAM in the past year, up 66% YoY; a record 275,655 webpages in total had CSAM, up 8% YoY
Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption
Amazon now lets US users create AI-generated backgrounds using Alexa prompts on the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series
Amazon is officially rolling out the ability to create AI-generated images on Fire TV devices. Starting today, the feature is available …
Omdia: the healthcare sector suffered more cyberattacks than any other sector between January and September 2023, with 241 publicly disclosed attacks
The vast amount of information held by health services makes them a prime target for cyber criminals — An increase in cyber attacks …
Lexington, Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage's Pinegrove, and StepStone are raising billions to buy stakes in VC-backed tech startups via secondary share sales
Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates — Investment firms are raising billions …
Global chip revenue dropped 11% YoY to $533B in 2023; Intel regained top spot with $48.7B, followed by Samsung's $39.9B; Nvidia was top five for the first time
Gartner charts big changes in semiconductor business revenue in 2023 Kim Joo-heon / IT | Aju Korea Daily English : Samsung Electronics records semiconductor revenue of $39.9 bln in 2023, down 37.5% pe...
WhatsApp updates Channels to add voice updates, polls, and additional admins
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Scotland-based game studio Build a Rocket Boy raised a $110M Series D ahead of the much-anticipated launch of its first titles and immersive open world platform
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Vodafone and Microsoft sign a 10-year, $1.5B deal to develop AI, digital payments, IoT, and other businesses; Vodafone will use OpenAI tech for customer service
As someone with family ties to African continent … Satya Nadella : We're delighted to partner with Vodafone to apply the latest cloud and AI technology to enhance the customer experience for hundreds ...
Uber is working with Tesla to urge its drivers to switch to EVs in a bid to be emissions-free in the US and Canada by 2030, including by sharing trip data
Joann Muller / Axios :
Google partners with NPCI, which runs India's Unified Payments Interface, to expand beyond India; the UPI platform had ~$209B in transactions in November 2023
Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg :
OpenAI forms a Collective Alignment team to design a process for collecting and using input from the public “to train and shape the behavior of our models”
After months of hush hush, OAI meetings … Tyna Eloundou : I'm thrilled to be able share this update; We have been working with 10 brilliant teams who designed and tested ambitious prototypes aimed at ...
Magic Leap's CEO and CTO talk about the future of the company, as a filing shows Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has invested $590M in debt funding
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
OpenAI VP Anna Makanju says the company is developing tools with the US DOD on open-source software and held talks on ways to assist preventing veteran suicide
Thomson Reuters acquires a 53.81% stake in Swedish e-invoicing provider Pagero, and raises the buyout offer by 25% to $789M, seeking to ward off rival bids
Gokul Pisharody / Reuters :
Generative AI is just the latest innovation to put pressure on the copyright system, but might be the one that brings down the whole legal copyright structure
Louis Menand / New Yorker : X: @artsjournalnews and @newyorker X: @artsjournalnews : Does AI Mean The End Of Intellectual Property?: My right of ownership of some piece of intellectual property bars ...
Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China plans to review Shein's data handling and sharing practices, which could delay the company's forthcoming US IPO
Wall Street Journal :
Australia unveils a plan to mandate safeguards around the use of higher-risk AI, such as self-driving technology, potentially requiring auditing and labeling
Jake Evans / ABC :
HashKey, which runs a licensed Hong Kong crypto exchange, raised a nearly $100M Series A at a $1.2B+ valuation; sources say OKX Ventures is a lead investor
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Filing: Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz's CEO and other shareholders plan to sell 9M shares for $873M; Kaspi.kz's Super App had 13.5M MAUs in 2023
Bloomberg :
Sources: African neobank Kuda raised $20M in 2023 at a $500M valuation, same as its 2021 valuation; it has 7M retail and business users, short of projections
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
In 2023, US metaverse VC funding was ~$910M, the lowest in at least six years and below a $3.11B peak in 2021; no consumer metaverse US startup raised $100M+
A look at Tencent's bet on Weixin Palm Payment, a palm scanning system launched in China in May 2023 for users of Weixin Pay, WeChat's sister app
Source: Google has increasingly awarded large grants of restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars to select DeepMind researchers to rival OpenAI's offers
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