Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling to stop it from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store
but it's also being sued over it The Macalope / Macworld : Give up the App Store purchase fight, Apple, it's just not worth it Joe Sparrow / Music Ally : Apple approves Spotify app update - and appeal...
Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Australia and Southeast Asia and raises 365's price, a sign of how it aims to turn a profit from its AI investments
and Making Them Pay Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : Microsoft Bundles Key AI Product With Consumer Apps Suite Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Is Microsoft harassing users with AI assistant Copilot? B...
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature
I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do this again. Last year, it seemed like there was no reason to believe Spotify would ever roll … Threads: @joe_rosenthal , @fabiobracht , and @wongmjane . Blue...
Uber is testing Uber Flex, a flexible pricing service that lets riders pick a fare of their choice that will be shared with nearby drivers, in 12+ Indian cities
digital haggling/auction to get a cab — it works in Istanbul... you start with the predicted meter rate and then jack up your surcharge incrementally until a driver bites... [embedded post]
In a Q&A using Meta's photorealistic Pixel Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
Zuckerberg might have just infused life into the Metaverse—by ‘life,’ we mean literally. Denis Omelchenko / crypto.news : Meta's Zuckerberg reveals new photorealistic avatars for metaverse Tom Carter ...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twitter continues its d...
Bluesky publishes proposals for new moderation and safety tooling, focusing on user lists and reply controls for community-driven moderation, hashtags, and more
The goal of Bluesky is to turn social media into a shared public commons. We don't want to own people's social graphs or communities. @bossett.bsky.social , @davidgerard.co.uk , @pfrazee.com , @tana...
Apple announces a 15.3-inch MacBook Air for $1,299+, with an M2, six speakers, a 25% brighter display, a headphone jack, and a 1080p webcam, shipping on June 13
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...