Apple
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Deepfakes
App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows
Findings from the Tech Transparency Project claim that Google and Apple’s app stores not only host harmful apps that can undress images of women, but encourage users to find them.
Privacy
Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.
Apple
Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts
For months Apple Podcasts has been randomly opening spirituality and religion podcasts by itself, and in one case directing listeners to a potentially malicious website.
chatbots
Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
iPhone
A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
Court Watch
DHS Cracks Large-Scale Apple Counterfeiting ‘Refund Fraud’ Ring
A traffic stop in Alabama led to the discovery of a large-scale counterfeiting ring.
News
California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations
A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that Apple also miscalculated the effectiveness of its hazardous compound air filters.
airtags
A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.
A man allegedly involved in a Russia-based smuggling operation is accused of placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife's car to surveil her.
repair
Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair Practices
Apple will partially ease its "parts pairing" policy on the same day Colorado is considering a right-to-repair bill that would ban parts pairing, and weeks after Oregon banned the practice.
Apple
Green Bubble Vindication: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'
"This social pressure reinforces switching costs and drives users to continue buying iPhones—solidifying Apple’s smartphone dominance not because Apple has made its smartphone better, but because it has made communicating with other smartphones worse."
Court documents
Here's the U.S. Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple
Here are the court documents for the DOJ's antitrust case against Apple.
repair
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair
"It is our belief that the bill’s current language around parts pairing will undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices."