Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more ( techcrunch.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/18019157...
This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel ( techcrunch.com )
Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7
Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act ( techcrunch.com )
A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company ( techcrunch.com )
iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos ( techcrunch.com )
Mobile games company Voodoo acquires BeReal ( techcrunch.com )
Raspberry Pi is now a public company ( techcrunch.com )
Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms ( techcrunch.com )
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Onyx Motorbikes was in trouble -- and then its 37-year-old owner died | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Onyx Motorbikes owner and CEO James Khatiblou was trying to keep his startup alive. Then, the unthinkable happened.
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt ( techcrunch.com )
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia ( techcrunch.com )
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach ( techcrunch.com )
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search ( techcrunch.com )
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn ( techcrunch.com )
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers ( techcrunch.com )
Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions ( techcrunch.com )
Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract ( techcrunch.com )
This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary