Report: Brazil's antitrust regulator is investigating Apple over ATT, saying Apple collects user data “under more favorable conditions”, after Meta complained
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Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which now has support for eight more languages, and Ambient Music via Control Center
Emojis, News+ Recipes, Visual Intelligence, More! Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple Releases tvOS 18.4 John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Updates Its OSes with Mail Parity Across Platforms, Recipes in N...
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 10 Kylie Robison / The Verge : You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT … For the 10th day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landlin...
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to logged-in users, not just subscribers, and says users can set ChatGPT Search as their browser's default search engine
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 8 Alan Velasco / HotHardware : OpenAI Gift Wraps ChatGPT's AI Search For Everyone, Check Out The Demo Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Search the Web With Your Voice ...
OpenAI says ChatGPT, API, and Sora traffic has largely recovered after a multi-hour outage, and that it is monitoring the situation to ensure full resolution
The website appears to be functioning normally again. Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : ChatGPT down for some users; iOS 18.2 integration affected Stephen Schenck / Android Authority : ChatGPT is down, as O...
macOS 15 Sequoia review: window tiling, the new Passwords app, and iPhone mirroring make it a solid update even without the upcoming Apple Intelligence features
but sans Apple Intelligence Zollotech / zollotech on YouTube : macOS 15 Sequoia is Out! - What's New? Brandon Butch / Brandon Butch on YouTube : macOS Sequoia Released - What's New? (75+ New Features)...
Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally
Watch Out iMessage Sheena Vasani / The Verge : WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly users in the US GSMArena.com : WhatsApp reaches 100 million monthly users in the US Mahmoud Itani / Android Authorit...
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
and even Threads is warming to it Leo Grieco / Proactiveinvestors UK : Meta's Threads hits milestone but lags social media giants Sean Tilley / We Distribute : A Beginner's Guide to the Fediverse, for...
Bluesky now lets users send DMs and says the service is working on adding support for messages with images and end-to-end encryption
Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is officially launching DMs … Carrie Marshall / T3 : Bluesky just gave you a great reason to finally quit Twitter Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Bluesky fin...