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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants

The Verge

While Amazon has allowed companies to build skills for Alexa and allows pretty much any consumer electronic device maker to integrate Alexa into a compatible product, the e-commerce giant has not licensed the underlying AI tech for use in other assistant-like products. Amazon is calling the new offering Alexa Custom Assistant.

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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

The Verge

Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a silicon wafer platter | Screenshot: Sean Hollister / The Verge. Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. Apple claims improved performance over the original version of Rosetta from 2006.

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Scott Lowe

A new zero-click, zero-day exploit was announced and Apple has released an update for all affected systems. Here’s another take on the future of Terraform following the license switch. Daniel Stenberg rails about everything that is wrong about CVEs. Grafana recently had to rotate their GPG signing key.

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

Vox

Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple , Amazon , Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Its library of games will expand significantly, potentially giving its Xbox console and Game Pass subscription program an edge over Sony’s PlayStation and rumored Game Pass rival. This conspicuous merger threatens to upend that.

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Former U.S. Intelligence Personnel Turn 'Hackers-for-Hire'

SecureWorld News

Prosecutors say, “despite being informed on several occasions” that the defendants’ work required a license to be issued, they pressed on anyway. SecureWorld’s Bruce Sussman, for instance, reported on the patch Apple released earlier in the week for an attack of this kind that targeted iPhones. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mark J.

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