Apple Supreme Court battle pause means app developers still need to share a cut of digital item sales
Apple still doesn’t need to change its App Store anti-steering laws, but that could all change soon.
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Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers at Black Hat detail a months-long investigation into Deckmate, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, finding a flaw to give “full control” — Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Researchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections — Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The first One UI 6 beta was supposed to go live today for the Galaxy S23 phones in the United States, Germany, and South Korea. It looks like the release has been delayed for a second time. Update: August 10, 2023 (5:46 AM ET): It looks like Samsung has
Read MoreFrom vinyl to photos, blogs to music streams, chronicling 50 years of culture involves reckoning with what can and cannot be saved—and the tools that can do it.
Read MoreAs the international tech giant moves toward Russian ownership, the leak raises concerns about the volume of data it has on its users.
Read MoreThe father of modern computing would have opened his arms to ChatGPT. You should too.
Read MoreAlexander Marrow / Reuters: Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, who quit as CEO in June 2022, denounces Russia’s Ukraine war as “barbaric”, as Yandex plans to spin off from its Dutch parent — The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O), Arkady Volozh, on Thursday condemned what he described as Russia’s …
Read MoreBloomberg: Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$32.2B, beating analyst estimates of ~$31.1B, and a ~$4.7B net income, as its core e-commerce arm returned to growth — – Core e-commerce returned to growth for first time in a year — Alibaba is trying to revive its business in a volatile economy
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple is changing the placement of the end call button on the caller screen in iOS 17. The latest iOS 17 beta 5 moves the button to the bottom right corner alongside the other group of buttons. This small change is expected to greatly impact user experience as it
Read MoreGoogle has introduced Project IDX, a browser-based development environment that combines templates and generative AI assistance to make it easier to build and deploy full-stack and multiplatform applications with popular languages and frameworks. Would-be users of the preview service must start by joining a waitlist. Built on Google Cloud and powered by the Codey foundational
Read MoreUnit testing is an integral part of the software development lifecycle that allows us to verify the implicit and explicit assumptions in our application’s code. When you’ve used unit tests properly, your application will have fewer errors. Fluent Assertions is a popular C# library that can enhance your unit test methods by making them both
Read MoreTracking the annual flurry of announcements at Microsoft Build is a good way to understand what the company thinks is important for its developer customers. Build 2023 pushed artificial intelligence and machine learning to the top of that list, with Microsoft unveiling a full-stack approach to building AI applications, starting with your data and building
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads plans to add several features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt-text for media — Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/OnePlus OnePlus will bring a ‘Rain Water Touch’ feature to the Ace 2 Pro smartphone. This will allow for a more responsive touchscreen when using the phone in the rain. We’re guessing the company could bring this feature to future flagship phones. One issue with using your phone in the rain is that the
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Samsung will reportedly have Exynos 2400 variants of the Galaxy S24 series to offset the costs of other upgrades. The base RAM is apparently going up on all Galaxy S24 models, with a base storage upgrade in store for the standard Galaxy S24. Samsung is also expected to equip
Read MoreUsers will be able to request full signatures or initials, with the ability to auto-generate a date for when it was signed. | Image: Google Google is adding native support for eSignatures to Docs and Drive in an attempt to make it easier for users to request signatures and sign documents from within its cloud-based
Read MoreGerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: A profile of James Manyika, Google’s first SVP of Technology and Society, who signed a statement warning AI poses a “risk of extinction” to humanity — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Amid the excited hype about artificial intelligence at Google’s annual developer conference in May …
Read MoreNicola Agius / Search Engine Land: X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager — The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
Read MoreJennifer Hassan / Washington Post: Some TikTok content creators are using AI to recreate the likeness of deceased or missing children, giving them “voices” to narrate what happened to them — These are some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases involving children. These are stories of abuse, abduction …
Read MoreCredit: Luke Pollack / Android Authority Google has rolled out unknown tracker alerts for Android devices The alerts will notify you if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is traveling with you. Users will be able to get more information on the tracker and actions they can take. Users can manually scan for nearby trackers. Update: August
Read MoreRosie Perper / CoinDesk: Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and which moved to Polygon in 2022, says it is migrating to Ethereum and will return the $3M Polygon grant — The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the
Read MoreTom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws — Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk.
Read MoreIt’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. But like so many such pieces of received Opinion, this one is full of holes. As [Lunduke] investigates, there were several ways to multitask DOS,
Read MoreDisney Plus has hinted at an upcoming password and account sharing crackdown. Prices of Disney Plus plans are also going up. The service has introduced a new bundled subscription for Disney Plus Premium and Hulu without ads. Disney Plus is the latest streaming service to join Netflix in its crusade against password sharing. Disney CEO
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