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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is appealing a European Union decision that would see its App Store hit with tough new obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Reuters reports that its plea argues against the European Commission’s designations of its App Store and the iMessage service. According to Reuters‚ Apple argues that the Commission’s treatment of the App Stores on iPhone‚ iPad‚ Mac‚ Apple TV‚ and Apple Watch as a single store is based on “material factual errors‚” as they all distribute apps for a specific platform and type of device. As well as the App Store‚ the European Commission is also investigating whether iMessage should also be designated as a core platform service under the DMA‚ which could result in Apple being forced to make its... Continue reading…

Apple’s Vision Pro will officially launch in the US on February 2nd‚ and starting that same day‚ you’ll be able sign up to try the headset out for yourself at the company’s retail stores‚ Apple said in an email today. “Starting at 8:00 a.m. on Friday‚ February 2‚ we invite you to sign up for a demo of Apple Vision Pro at your local Apple Store‚” Apple said in the email. “Demo times will be available Friday through the weekend on a first-come‚ first-served basis. We can’t wait to see you there.” That language kind of makes it sound like Apple will only be offering demos through that first weekend of launch. Personally‚ I doubt that will be the case — I’m guessing Apple will want to give lots of people opportunities to try the Vision Pro... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is updating its cyberbullying and harassment policies and will no longer allow content that “realistically simulates” minors and other victims of crimes narrating their deaths or the violence they experienced. The update appears to take aim at a genre of content in true crime circles that creates disturbing AI-powered depictions of victims — including children — that then describe the violence against them. Some of the videos use AI-generated‚ childlike voices to describe gruesome violence that occurred in high-profile cases. Families of victims depicted in the videos have called the content “disgusting.” YouTube’s policy update will result in a strike that removes the content from a channel and also temporarily limits what a... Continue reading…

Image: OpenAI OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times‚ calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet. In a blog post‚ OpenAI said the Times “is not telling the full story.” It took particular issue with claims that its ChatGPT AI tool reproduced Times stories verbatim‚ arguing that the Times had manipulated prompts to include regurgitated excerpts of articles. “Even when using such prompts‚ our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates‚ which suggests they either instructed the model to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts‚” OpenAI said. OpenAI claims it’s attempted to reduce regurgitation from its large language... Continue reading…

Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV wrapped up the final leg of its Fan Festival tour in Tokyo over the weekend. As with the other Fan Festival events‚ players were treated to a wealth of new information on Dawntrail‚ the next expansion in the critically acclaimed MMORPG series — in addition to graphical updates‚ a new playable race‚ and information on the expansion’s new area (and you can check out the full keynote address here). We also got a first look at the second job class being added to the game: Pictomancer. By this point in the Dawntrail hype cycle‚ the most dedicated fans had already figured out the Pictomancer was coming. During the Las Vegas Fan Festival last year‚ game producer Naoki Yoshida made the keynote address wearing a Teenage Mutant... Continue reading…

Image: Abode Your average security camera can easily capture footage of porch pirates — but what if it could trace them turning the corner in their getaway car? Abode has released a new outdoor security camera that can do just that. The Abode Edge Camera has a range of up to 1.5 miles and is designed to be placed in your backyard‚ garden‚ or some other outdoor vantage point. The system works through Wi-Fi HaLow‚ a low-power version of Wi-Fi that can reach longer distances (but at a much lower bit rate) and is meant for IoT devices. Each security camera comes with a base station that goes inside your home; the camera connects to the base station over HaLow‚ then the base station connects to your at-home router using traditional Wi-Fi. HaLow was first... Continue reading…