Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Apple faces a £785M class action lawsuit, claiming to represent over 1,500 app developers, over its App Store fees at the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal — Apple (AAPL.O) on Tuesday found itself the target of a 785-million-pound ($1 billion) class action lawsuit brought …
Read MoreA microservices architecture for application development in the cloud is an architectural approach that builds a software application as a collection of small (“micro”), loosely coupled services. Each service in the architecture represents a specific business capability or functionality, such as adding an inventory item to a database or checking the credit on new customers.
Read MoreOver the last decade, we’ve witnessed organizations of all sizes adopt containers to power the great “lift and shift” to the cloud. Looking ahead to the next decade, we see a new trend emerging, one dominated by distributed operations. Organizations are struggling to meet their goals for performance, regulation compliance, autonomy, privacy, cost, and security,
Read MoreChief technology officers (CTOs) are charged with discovering technology solutions that can help their organizations gain a competitive edge. These leaders also keep an eye out for tools that can help them and their teams work more efficiently and achieve great results. I asked CTOs about the products and services they’re using for collaboration and
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A US District Court has ruled that Google violated three Touchstream Technologies patents relating to “presenting and controlling content on a display device.” Consequently, Google will have to pay $338.7 million in damages for this patent infringement. Google says it will appeal the decision. Chromecast has been one of
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 is changing the way work profiles suspend apps in the background. Google is now using the same mechanism as the Extreme Battery Saver function in Android to suspend apps in work profiles when you switch out of them. Update, July 25, 2023 (03:10 AM ET): Google has
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Microsoft has started pushing out Bing Chat to Safari and Chrome. The chatbot has character and conversation limits on these browsers, though. Microsoft introduced its GPT-powered Bing Chat early this year, beating Google to the punch with an AI-powered chatbot of its own. Unfortunately, one big limitation was that
Read MoreUpdate, July 25, 2023 (02:20 AM ET): We have updated the Samsung Galaxy S24 series rumor hub with a leak regarding the processor. Original article: Every year, smartphone fans look forward to the latest flagship Android phones from Samsung. In 2023, those flagships were in the Galaxy S23 series. Next year, however, we expect to
Read MoreSudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: Paris-based defense electronics and cybersecurity company Thales agrees to buy US-based cybersecurity firm Imperva from Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.6B — French defence electronics and cybersecurity company Thales (TCFP.PA) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. cybersecurity company Imperva …
Read MoreWe don’t know if you’ve looked into it recently, but the prices for vintage computers are through the roof right now. These classic machines are going through something of a renaissance at the moment, with even relatively commonplace computers commanding several hundred dollars if they’re in good condition. For those looking to start a collection
Read MoreUkraine’s deputy prime minister has helped the country bootstrap and innovate its war effort, creating a defense industry from scratch, and using his Big Tech ties to cut Russia off from the world.
Read MoreThomas Seal / Bloomberg: The UK plans to force social media and ad platforms like Google Ads to stop scam ads including fake celebrity endorsements, pop-ups with malware, and more — – Ad-tech will be forced to crack down on scam advertisements — Measures are intended to complement the Online Safety Bill
Read MoreAndrew Hudson / Ars Technica: An in-depth look at mainframe computers, their 50+ year history, and the IBM mainframe, a business mainstay that represents most of the estimated 10,000 in use — In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay. — Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs.
Read MoreA heat advisory sign is shown along US Highway 190 during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16th, 2023. | Photo by Ronda Churchill / AFP via Getty Images It’s been a viciously hot July for much of the planet thanks to heatwaves made worse by climate
Read MoreSo you want to play some games from the early days of 32-bit iPhone OS that no longer run on recent OS versions? [Hikari-no-yume] wrote a sweet high-level emulator, touchHLE, to do so on modern iOS phones. But maybe you don’t have an iPhone? [Ciciplusplus] has your back. He ported the iPhone OS emulator, written
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023 — The response to the CFTC complaint is due on July 27 and the defendants plan to submit motions to dismiss, according to a court
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism — RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter’s headquarters on Market Street.
Read MoreGoogle has announced that Google Play services will discontinue support for Android KitKat. The active device count for Android 4.4 has reportedly fallen to under 1%. Devices on KitKat will stop being supported by August 2023. It’s hard to believe, but it has been 10 years since Google rolled out Android 4.4, better known as
Read MoreThe Twitter sign is coming down in San Francisco. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Twitter, in case you somehow haven’t heard, is rebranding as “X,” ditching one of the world’s most iconic and theoretically valuable brands in exchange for Elon Musk’s personal idea of cool. Today, the theoretically-not-Musk-led company owned by Musk
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: A Web Integrity API standard proposal from Google employees aims to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, but is a nightmare for the open web — It’s just a “proposal,” but it’s also being prototyped inside Chrome right now. — Google’s newest proposed web standard is…
Read MoreSam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, is accused by prosecutors of witness tampering due to his communications with a reporter from the New York Times. The criminal fraud defense team denied the allegations in a letter to the judge in charge of the case but agreed to abide by the gag order. If the judge
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Mastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, is rife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford’s Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts on the platform — with the
Read More[Jon] wanted to keep track of his home power use, but didn’t want to have to push his data up to some cloud service that’s just going to leave him high and dry in the future. So he went completely DIY. This simple and sweet build is now in its third revision, and the refinements
Read MoreWashington Post: Researchers find, in a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags — Happy Monday! Send news tips and summer podcast recommendations to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
Read MoreFrom corporate rebrands to AI-powered video reels to text threads, social media companies are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
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