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European regulators want to question Apple after it blocks Epic Games app store
TechXplore· 2024-03-07 15:10
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: An Apple logo adorns the facade of the downtown Brooklyn Apple store in New York, Saturday, March 14, 2020. European Union regulators said they want to question Apple over accusations that it blocked video game company Epic Games from setting up its own app store, in a possible violation of digital rules that took effect in the ...
Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking?
TechXplore· 2024-03-07 15:00
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A logo of the Apple company is pictured in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday Jan. 4, 2017. Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone's digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial informati ...
Google opens new cybersecurity hub in Japan
TechXplore· 2024-03-07 14:51
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Google has launched a cybersecurity hub in Japan. Google on Thursday launched a new cybersecurity hub in Japan, aimed at helping to upgrade defenses in the Asia-Pacific. The region faces a growing cyber threat from a range of actors, including criminal gangs looking for big payouts and state-backed actors pursuing intelligence ...
Epic-Apple feud tests EU big tech law
TechXplore· 2024-03-06 21:38
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Epic Games on Wednesday called on the EU to swiftly enforce its major new law governing big tech after Apple halted the Fortnite-maker's effort to develop a competing app store for its devices. "We see Apple's decision to block us from competing as a blatant effort to kneecap their leading com ...
Chinese national arrested in US for stealing Google AI technology
TechXplore· 2024-03-06 21:37
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The files allegedly related to the hardware infrastructure and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data centers to train large AI models through machine learning. A Chinese software engineer was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing artificial intelligence technology from Google while secretly working for t ...
Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company's board
TechXplore· 2024-03-06 21:36
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A Copilot page showing the incorporation of AI technology is shown in London, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm Wednesday, March 6, 2024, about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool. Credit: AP Photo/Alastair Grant, F ...
Microsoft Ignite conference returns to Chicago in November after 9-year hiatus
TechXplore· 2024-03-05 15:10
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly a decade after holding its first Microsoft Ignite event in Chicago—and then abruptly pulling up stakes for other cities—the software giant's annual information technology conference is coming back to McCormick Place in November. Microsoft's return engagement is expected to bring thousan ...
Apple's $2 billion fine heralds a new antitrust dawn
TechXplore· 2024-03-05 15:05
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Another day, another multibillion-dollar regulatory fine from Europe that will barely dent the balance sheet of a technology giant. Only this time the European Commission's $2 billion penalty against Apple Inc. marks the end of an old, clunky era, and the start of a new one where trust-busters ...
Apple hit with 1.8-bn-euro EU fine for music streaming restrictions
TechXplore· 2024-03-04 16:03
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Spotify has been one of the most vocal critics of Apple's changes to comply with the EU's new law, the Digital Markets Act. The EU on Monday hit Apple with a more than 1.8-billion-euro fine ($1.9 billion) for violating the bloc's laws by preventing European users from accessing information about alternative, cheaper music stream ...
Google trims jobs in trust and safety while others work 'around the clock'
TechXplore· 2024-03-04 11:48
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.'s Google is laying off a handful of employees on its trust and safety team as part of broader staff cuts, even as it's asking members of that group to be on standby over the weekend in order to troubleshoot problematic outputs related to its flagship generative AI tool, Gemini. The cuts ...