Apple pushes back on criticism, says it’s fully complying with the DMA – 9to5Mac
Got a dirty iPhone 15 FineWoven case? There’s still hope for it — a bit of detergent and some elbow grease might clean the grime (though Apple doesn’t recommend it)
New Privacy-Preserving AI Technology in the Pipeline at Apple
MrBeast Strikes Amazon Deal For Biggest Competition Series in TV History
Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state?
BBC to celebrate 50th anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision victory
Apple pushes back on criticism, says it’s fully complying with the DMA – 9to5Mac
With iOS 17.4 this month, Apple debuted a number of new features as part of its efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the EU. These efforts include alternative app marketplaces, new business terms for developers, and support for third-party browser...
Got a dirty iPhone 15 FineWoven case? There’s still hope for it — a bit of detergent and some elbow grease might clean the grime (though Apple doesn’t recommend it)
The iPhone 15 FineWoven case has to go down as one of the least-well-received Apple products of all time. FineWoven was the only mistake in an otherwise spotless iPhone 15 line-up launch. Apple's best iPhones, the shiniest, fastest, most powerful mobile devices it had...
New Privacy-Preserving AI Technology in the Pipeline at Apple
Apple researchers have hit on a new multi-modal method of quickly training large language models (LLMs) that can enable more flexible and powerful machine-learning and "AI" type systems. A research paper posted by the company to research site arxiv.org earlier this...
MrBeast Strikes Amazon Deal For Biggest Competition Series in TV History
MrBeast is headed to Amazon. The hugely popular YouTube star has struck a deal with Amazon MGM Studios for his first traditional TV series: A competition described as “the biggest reality competition series in television history.” The project is based on his YouTube...
Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state?
Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans? These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the...
BBC to celebrate 50th anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision victory
The BBC has announced that it will be broadcasting a series of special programmes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ABBA‘s Eurovision Song Contest victory. Among the programmes are When ABBA Came To Britain and More ABBA At The BBC. The former – an hour long...
APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing campaigns that employ lure documents imitating government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and North and South America....
Apple’s claims about risk of outside payments ‘do not survive scrutiny’,
Apple’s claim that allowing outside payment systems is a security risk does not “survive scrutiny” as it already allows such options for physical goods and the “sky did not fall in”, the firm behind the popular game Fortnite has argued. Monday marked the start of what...
Banksy confirms artwork on London building
Banksy has confirmed a new mural which recently surfaced on the side of a building in London is his. The artwork painted behind a cut-back mature tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it which you can view below,...
Apple in talks to licence Google Gemini AI for iPhones
Google's controversial Gemini generative AI technology could be integrated directly into Apple's iOS to improve Siri. Apple has now regularly been reported to be planning an AI improvement for Siri, and to launch an iOS with much more integrated and prominent AI at...
Apple ID’s ‘Apple Account’ rebrand expected this fall
Apple's potential rebrand of Apple ID to "Apple Account" has seemingly been corroborated, with the change allegedly arriving later in 2024 alongside the macOS and iOS 18 releases. The Apple ID is the term used for the accounts on Apple's various online services, but...
AI girlfriends are 7 times more popular than AI boyfriends
AI girlfriends are seven times more popular than AI boyfriends, according to an analysis from App Radar by SplitMetrics, a company specializing in app growth solutions. The popularity of AI companions has soared, as SplitMetrics found that AI companion apps reached...