The Last of Us season 2 has found its Abby in Kaitlyn Dever, confirming previous reports. In a tweet, HBO confirmed that the Booksmart star will be playing the second protagonist — some prefer seeing her as a villain — in the post-apocalyptic series, posing a new challenge to Ellie Williams (Bella Ramsey). Interestingly, Dever […]

Damien Geradin / The Platform Law Blog: Apple’s changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show disdain for both the DMA and app developers  —  Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response

Wi-Fi 7 was announced by the Wi-Fi Alliance earlier this week at CES 2024, bringing several improvements to the connectivity standard. In addition to faster speeds — Wi-Fi 7 will be up to four times faster than the previous version, Wi-Fi 6E — customers can look forward to new improvements like Multi-Link Operation, support for 320MHz

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Microsoft details the techniques that the Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard used to breach the email accounts of its executives and other organizations  —  Microsoft confirmed that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service hacking group, which hacked into its executives’ email accounts in November 2023 … Source link

Amazon Great Republic Day Sale will begin on January 13, the company announced on Wednesday. The annual sale event that takes place before Republic Day will allow Prime subscribers to access deals and discounts for a few hours before other users on the e-commerce platform. In addition to discounts on various products, customers can also

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple access was revoked due to irregular activity; Beeper: ~3.5K users reported outages  —  Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Source link

OpenAI has launched an online store where people can share customized versions of the company’s popular ChatGPT chatbot, after initially delaying the rollout because of leadership upheaval last year. The new store, which rolled out Wednesday to paid ChatGPT users, will corral the chatbots that users create for a variety of tasks, for example a

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: A look at browser-related iOS changes in the EU, including letting users choose one of the 12 most popular browsers in their country’s App Store as the default  —  The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’s Digital Markets

Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday it is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and is eliminating a similar number of roles in the company’s Devices and Services team. The layoffs at Google Assistant, first reported by news platform Semafor, are a part of organizational changes that have been in

Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Some developers say Apple’s new Core Technology Fee in the EU is eerily similar to the controversial Runtime Fee that Unity touted and withdrew after a backlash  —  App Store devs interested in using third-party services in the EU will need to agree to new terms-and a fee that could