Apple plans to halt Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling under US review until December 25
In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
Beeper debuts Beeper Mini for Android, which lets users send iMessages using E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month
Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky's DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple's iMessage …
What Biden's EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models' riskiness, but may work in aggregate
Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details — The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence.
At a congressional hearing, FTC Chair Lina Khan defended herself against GOP attacks over her alleged ethics violation and aggressive antitrust enforcement
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US law enforcement officials and other experts say TikTok has emerged as the biggest and fastest-growing danger zone for child sexual exploitation online
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @repkenbuck and @tomcottonar Tweets: Rep. Ken Buck / @repkenbuck : A very disturbing article. CCP owned TikTok is a “venue for chi...
Internal messages: Twitter's EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY and weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees
Revenues are in free fall, employees say. Can Musk turn the tide? — and Zoë Schiffer
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions
With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.
In an email chain mistakenly forwarded to Politico, an Amazon spokesperson asked a consultant to push a narrative that the AICO Act would harm people of color
A look at Democrats' efforts to pass the AICO Act, which bans Big Tech companies from favoring their products, before November's US midterms or the end of 2022
- A major piece of legislation that could reshape the tech industry is just a few steps away from becoming law.
Sources: data obtained through fake legal requests have been used to harass women and sexually extort minors; Meta, Apple, Google, and others handed over data
Major technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response …
Sources: the SEC is investigating how Amazon disclosed its use of third-party seller data for its business; source: the probe has been under way for over a year
Tech giant's use of third-party sellers' data is a focus of regulator's probe, a person familiar with the matter says
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems
in the face of millions in Big Tech lobbying and assaults from all the think tanks they pay — would have been unimaginable three years ago. Probably even two years ago. You love to...
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google for allegedly deceiving users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014
it's actually one of several state lawsuits that all contend Google's privacy settings are purposefully confusing, all under different consumer protection laws https://www.theverge...
Dutch antitrust regulator orders Apple to let dating apps in the App Store offer alternative payment systems by January 15 or face up to a €50M fine
company has been part of a growing coalition anti app store-practices. South Korea was another win for them, as we reported in November: https://pro.politico.eu/... https://twitter...
Dutch antitrust regulator orders Apple to let dating apps in the App Store offer alternative payment systems by January 15 or face up to a €50M fine
The Netherlands' top competition regulator on Friday said Apple Inc (AAPL.O) broke the country's competition laws and ordered changes …
Dutch antitrust regulator orders Apple to let dating apps in the App Store offer alternative payment systems by January 15 or face up to a €50M fine
The Netherlands' top competition regulator on Friday said Apple Inc (AAPL.O) broke the country's competition laws and ordered changes …
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations
letting all kinds of awful content flow, and saying “the law won't let us hide hate anymore!” (You know they'd do this.) Anil Dash / @anildash : More broadly, this class of solutio...
Google appears to be using its Business Profile rebranding to solicit SMB opposition to possible antitrust legislation
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Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive
@Google, @Amazon, @Facebook, @Apple — that are crushing competition, shuttering small businesses, and canceling conservatives. Break. 'Em. Up. https://twitter.com/... Ron Knox / @r...
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more
but Facebook doesn't have people who speak all those languages to adequately monitor for hate speech and harassment. https://www.cnn.com/... DK Shivakumar / @dkshivakumar : This is...