Jess Weatherbed:
Specifically, the new additions include iTorrent, an iOS torrent client that can be used without jailbreaking iPhones or iPads, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent remote client for iOS devices. PeopleDrop is a dating-focused “social discovery platform” that connects you with other users in the real world as they pass by.
Hartley Charlton:
Apple has consistently banned torrent apps from its App Store, citing that they are “often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights,” but the DMA has weakened Apple’s ability to maintain its walled garden approach, allowing alternative app marketplaces like AltStore PAL to offer apps that do not meet Apple’s guidelines.
I still think it’s wild that Apple banned an entire network protocol because some people used it for copyright infringement.
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Hartley Charlton:
Spain’s competition authority has launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store over potential anti-competitive practices that could result in hefty fines (via Reuters).
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If the CNMC’s investigation confirms these allegations, Apple could face fines up to 10% of its global annual turnover, potentially amounting to billions of euros. The inquiry, which may take up to two years to conclude, adds to Apple’s growing list of regulatory challenges in Europe.
Michael Burkhardt:
The CNMC started their investigation last week, alleging that Apple may be abusing their dominant position to impose unfair commercial conditions to app developers. This could be in violation of the Spanish Competition Act, as well as Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
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C. Scott Brown:
Meta is now scraping Facebook posts to train its AI model. While this isn’t surprising on its own, what is surprising is just how difficult Meta is making it for users to opt out of this process.
Via X Daily News:
Instagram is training AI on your data but makes it nearly impossible to opt out.
Juli Clover:
Social network X (formerly Twitter) recently activated a setting that gives it permission to train Grok AI on user tweets. All X users are opted in by default, with X failing to notify customers about the change.
Kimmy Bestie:
You can disable this using the web but it’s hidden. You can’t disable using the mobile app.
Dare Obasanjo:
I found the outrage about X’s default setting to use user content to train xAI’s Grok to be confusing, at least for public tweets.
If you’ve ever posted anything on the public internet, it has been used to train AI. If you do so today, it will as well.
This is my thinking as well. It’s the same with Reddit and YouTube where the users specifically contributed their content to the Web. This is quite different from the situations with Adobe, Slack, Grammarly, and Zoom where the expectation was that the data was private.
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