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Apple’s new App Store guidelines put scammers and bounty hunters on notice

The Verge

Apple is warning fraudsters it’s coming for their entire accounts. Apple already had a section titled “5.6 Now, it also includes two clear warnings and a possibility of redemption: Repeated manipulative or misleading behavior or other fraudulent conduct will lead to your removal from the Apple Developer Program. Discovery Fraud.

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Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial

The Verge

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Similarly, Apple just released OpenELM under the “Apple Sample Code License,” which is also invented for the occasion and covers only copyright permissions while excluding patent rights. Neither Apple nor Meta use commonly accepted open source licenses, but the code is, in fact, open.

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The Importance of an Online Encryption Policy

CTOvision

Though you may have the best IT department in the world and advanced computing resources, if there are no written methodical steps that will serve as guidelines or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for computing and data storage, then all these hiring-sprees of IT talents and investments are doomed to fail. Symmetric key encryption.

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Apple’s still not catching scammy apps, and this time they’re on the Mac

The Verge

Scam app hunter / developer Kosta Eleftheriou, known for catching egregious scams that make it past Apple’s review process, has once again brought attention to a new crop of shady apps being peddled through the App Store. In theory, App Review should’ve tried them out and rejected them for violating Apple’s guidelines.

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Technology Short Take 158

Scott Lowe

A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. See this list of guidelines from Richard Bejarano. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs. Kat Traxler discusses abusing the AWS S3 replication service to exfiltrate data. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Apple’s Fortnite ban, explained

Vox

Apple is facing increasing pressure to change its App Store practices. Apple’s App Store war against developers and its ongoing antitrust issues appear to be coming to a head. Apple, a $2 trillion company, has not only refused to consider changing its lucrative business model, but it’s also kicked Fortnite out of the App Store.

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