Epic, Apple, Russia, Youtube’s AI Eraser
🍎🇪🇺 Epic Wins App Store Battle in Europe! Apple has reversed course and approved the Epic Games Store for iPhones and iPads in the European Union. This comes after Epic publicly accused Apple of blocking the app over seemingly trivial reasons - similarities between buttons and labels in the Epic Games Store and Apple's own App Store. This move follows new regulations in the EU aimed at curbing the dominance of large tech companies. [link]
🍎🇷🇺 Apple Caves to Russia, Removes 25 VPN Apps! Apple has complied with a request from Russia's state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, and removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from the App Store in Russia. This move comes amidst Russia's crackdown on VPNs, which allow users to bypass internet censorship. The removal has sparked concerns about Apple bowing to pressure from authoritarian regimes and limiting online freedoms. [link]
🔎🤖 Google scraps plan to keep AI Overviews exclusive! Looks like they won't restrict their new AI-powered search summaries (AI Overviews) to just Google's own mobile apps, like Chrome. Earlier reports suggested Google considered limiting them to lessen reliance on Safari for iOS, but they've decided against it. This means you might see AI Overviews popping up in other browsers too! [link]
🎶✂️ YouTube's "Eraser" Gets Smarter! YouTube creators, rejoice! The platform has upgraded its "Erase Song" tool with some clever artificial intelligence (AI). This new AI can now automatically detect and remove copyrighted music from your videos, all while leaving the rest of your audio, like dialogue and sound effects, squeaky clean. No more worrying about copyright claims messing with your monetisation or overall video! [link]
😶🌫️🤖 Website owners fight back! ️ Cloudflare is giving website owners a weapon to fight back against data scrapers! They've launched a free tool for all their customers that can block bots from hoovering up content for training AI models. This comes as concerns rise about the ethics of scraping websites without permission. With this new tool, website owners have more control over their content and can decide who can access it for AI training. [link]
