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Apple will have to face an antitrust lawsuit alleging iOS Apple Pay dominance (www.theverge.com)

Google Antitrust Judge Told Android Contracts Blocked Startup Search App - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)

cross-posted from !google...

YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each...

Nothing's budget-friendly brand CMF debuts a $69 smartwatch and $49 earbuds (www.engadget.com)

The products will initially be available in the UK and India....

X previews its 'shadowban' alerts (www.engadget.com)

Accounts that share "sensitive content" will be labeled and restricted from search, recommendations and other features....

GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...

Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)

Taliban weighs using US mass surveillance plan, met with China's Huawei (www.reuters.com)

Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)

cross-posted from !apple...

Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit by FTC, 17 states (thehill.com)

The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)

FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.

How to make a Contact Poster in iOS 17 (www.engadget.com)

Now you can force your friends to stare at your giraffe Memoji whenever you call....

Bo’s sublime e-scooter of the future is finally ready to buy (www.engadget.com)

All of its technology has changed, but it remains exactly the same....

Threads is struggling to retain users — but it could still catch up to X (www.theverge.com)

Firefox 118 Released With Killer New Feature - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score (stackdiary.com)

US FCC chair to seek reinstating net neutrality rules rescinded under Trump (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: dubvee.org/post/205595...

Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....

Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part for Its New iPhones (www.wsj.com)

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else “soon after”. You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.

X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature (techcrunch.com)

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