Apple has handled its response, including its proposed App Store changes, to the EU's DMA with aplomb, despite the law being an assault on Apple's brand promise
An essay on the EU Digital Markets Act and Apple's “Update on apps distributed in the European Union” (and some personal history)
Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the EU's established principles
Apple is trying to frame it as dangerous. — Sadly it will only possible to run those browsers in the EU and browser makers need then to provide different browsers in the EU and outside. … Frank Reif...
X blocks Taylor Swift searches as a “temporary action and done with an abundance of caution”, days after explicit AI-generated images of her flooded the site
Singer's name yielded error messages Saturday, days after her fans swarmed the social-media platform vowing to ‘protect Taylor Swift’
Apple's proposed App Store and iOS changes seek to retain as much control over iOS as possible while staying within the letter of the EU's DMA
Apple yesterday announced a broad, wide-ranging, and complex set of new policies establishing their intended compliance with the European Union's …
X plans to build a new “Trust and Safety center of excellence” in Austin, Texas, and hire 100 full-time moderators to fight child sexual exploitation material
- Employees will be full-time, primarily focused on CSE content — X CEO Yaccarino to testify before Senate committee next week
Sources: the US plans to award billions in subsidies to Intel, TSMC, and other chipmakers in the coming weeks, amid concerns of a slow CHIPS Act implementation
Industry, lawmakers worry semiconductor production could take years because of negotiations, permitting and worker shortages
FTX unloads cryptoassets as bankruptcy advisers look to repay customers; filings: its affiliates' cash pile grew from ~$2.3B in October to $4.4B at 2023's end
- Cash of key affiliates rose to about $4.4 billion at end-2023 — Increased cash coincided with rising value of customer claims
Researchers: financial sextortion of young users on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube is rising, driven by Yahoo Boys, a West African cybercriminal gang
“Yahoo Boys” is an informal network of cybercriminals who have gained cultural clout over the last several years in West Africa.
While App Store changes apply to all of Apple's platforms, iPadOS, which doesn't meet DMA thresholds, won't get third-party app stores, browser engines, more
but they may not be enough MacDailyNews : EU threatens Apple with ‘strong action’ if App Store changes fall short Threads: Ian Betteridge / @ianbetteridge : Incredible, petty, insulting to its custome...
Sources: DJ Novotney, an Apple VP of hardware engineering who led work on home devices and helped start Apple's electric vehicle project, is leaving for Rivian
- DJ Novotney, VP of hardware, helped start Apple's car project — Apple has seen multiple senior leaders leave in recent months
The Biden admin plans to use the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI models
The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.
Mozilla criticizes Apple's plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations”
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Apple no longer requires apps with third-party login services to also use Sign in with Apple; now they must offer an additional login with some privacy features
There's another small but notable change coming to the App Store. Apple has revised its App Store guidelines to remove …
With high-stakes elections in 2024, some experts are worried that a piece of disinformation potentially involving a deepfake might soon have a calamitous impact
It's merely a matter of time until disinformation leads to calamity via @FT https://giftarticle.ft.com/... @ftweekend : 'With high-stakes elections taking place across the world this year, deepfake ex...
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF becomes the first of the recently launched US spot bitcoin products to pass $2B in assets under management, within 10 days of its debut
Helene Braun / CoinDesk :
Sources: Meta believes Apple's Vision Pro can reinvigorate its $50B metaverse effort, with the Quest ecosystem filling the role played by Android in smartphones
Company executives are optimistic about competition as billions spent have yet to translate into wide consumer adoption
Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal steps down from the company's board, after selling his entire stake in recent years; Flipkart was acquired by Walmart in 2018
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Europe's blue-chip stocks index Euro Stoxx 50 hits its highest level since 2001, with ASML and SAP, the region's two biggest tech stocks, powering the surge
- Rally in megacaps SAP, ASML and LVMH boosts Euro Stoxx 50 — Diversification by sector and geography seen as tailwinds
In his new book, a16z VC Chris Dixon argues blockchain is a morally neutral tech that regulators must differentiate from the crypto industry's casino culture
Joel Khalili / Wired :
Proof, which provides legal document serving, e-filing, and other online litigation services, raised a $30.4M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners
PYMNTS.com :
Supporters of Israel are using apps to mass report pro-Palestinian content online, raising questions for tech platforms over “citizen-led propaganda” campaigns
which is not actually real.https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @washingtonpost : Experts who study communication online say the widespread use of such tools is warping the online discussion of the war...
Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people
John Herrman / New York Magazine : Mastodon: @abominabledrh@mastodon.ie . Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social . X: @jwherrman , @intelligencer , and @jwherrman . Forums: Hacker News Mastodon: @abomi...
A look at the US Copyright Office, which is in the spotlight as it plans to release three key reports in 2024 revealing its position on copyright law and AI
Cecilia Kang / New York Times : X: @knibbs and @stevelohr X: @knibbs : great explainer on the US Copyright Office, which was a chill place to work until generative AI exploded: https://www.nytimes.co...
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