Apple has settled a major antitrust case in Brazil, agreeing to overhaul its App Store rules. The company must now allow app sideloading and external payment links for users in the country, with a tight deadline to implement the changes.
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that provides an API for scraping search engine results to train AI models. This legal move highlights the intensifying battle over data ownership in the AI era, with Google playing both offense and defense.
A former Rockstar animator has weighed in on the two biggest questions surrounding GTA 6: price and release date. Mike York expects a $70 base price and a firm November 2026 launch, countering analyst predictions of a $100 game.
Microsoft’s Xbox console sales are getting crushed, with hardware revenue down 29% year-over-year. The company’s new strategy abandons the console race, focusing instead on an open system across PC, cloud, and even rival platforms.
The open-source graphics driver ecosystem is heating up. A new Vulkan driver for PowerVR GPUs and the Rusticl OpenCL driver are showing serious progress, which is great news for Linux hardware support.
In a massive data scrape, the shadow library group Anna’s Archive claims to have downloaded metadata for Spotify’s entire library. The trove includes info on 256 million tracks and 86 million actual song files. This move blurs the lines between digital preservation and outright piracy.
Spotify is taking action against a shadow library site that claims to have scraped nearly its entire music catalog. The site, Anna’s Archive, says it’s sitting on 300 terabytes of data for 256 million tracks.
Microsoft has enabled hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025. The feature, announced at Ignite 2025, leverages new CPU and SoC tech to slash encryption overhead, promising near-native SSD performance.
A growing industry is training executives on social media best practices, with roles like PayPal’s “Head of CEO Content” paying over $300k. But recent posts from leaders at Blockworks and Snowflake highlight how quickly a personal brand push can backfire, causing real business and legal headaches.
According to Fortune, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” to his team, pushing them to improve ChatGPT or risk falling behind. This comes as Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest over $10 billion into the AI company, joining Microsoft as a major backer.
