🛒 Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws

Plus: Musk Shakes Up Twitter's Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs, A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia, and more…

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Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws. Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying with strict European Union requirements coming in 2024. Software engineering and services employees are engaged in a… (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman @markgurman

New story: Apple is preparing to allow alternative app stores and side-loading on iOS — along with a slew of other changes to make the iPhone more open — in response to new European Union requirements arriving in 2024.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Musk Shakes Up Twitter's Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs. SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past two weeks, Elon Musk has shaken up Twitter's legal department, disbanded a council that advised the social media company on safety issues and is continuing to take drastic steps to cut costs. Mr. Musk appears to… (Ryan Mac / The New York Times)

Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18

Elon Musk's Twitter is: -No longer paying rent at any of its offices -Reconsidering whether to pay employees severance -Not working with lawyer Alex Spiro -Getting legal help from SpaceX Latest w/ @MikeIsaac, @kateconger, @nytmike

nytimes.comMusk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More CostsTwitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.

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A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia. On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside his home. Amare, who was ethnically Tigrayan, had been targeted in a series of Facebook posts the month before, alleging that… (Vittoria Elliott / WIRED)

dell cameron @dellcam

Because i have no idea what vacation is, my first byline at WIRED (w/ Vittoria Elliott): A petition filed in Kenya High Court today accuses Facebook of failing to remedy hate speech that perpetuated violence and death in Ethiopia's civil war.

wired.comA New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in EthiopiaThe suit claims the company lacks adequate moderation to prevent widespread hate speech that has led to violence and death.

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How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg. We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He's making all these changes, and he's realizing that content moderation decisions are quite complicated, especially when the stakes are high. But talking about Twitter in a vacuum seems… (Nilay Patel / The Verge)

Decoder Podcast @DecoderPod

Tumblr CEO @photomatt shares what it's been like to buy and run a social network—and what advice he has for Elon—on this week's Decoder

theverge.comHow to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt MullenwegMatt Mullenweg explains the myriad challenges now being faced by Elon Musk.

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Apple fixes 'actively exploited' zero-day affecting most iPhones. Apple has confirmed that an iPhone software update it released two weeks ago fixed a zero-day security vulnerability that it now says was actively exploited. The update, iOS 16.1.2, landed on November 30 and… (Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

New: Apple says an iPhone software update it released two weeks ago, iOS 16.1.2, contains a security fix for a WebKit zero-day flaw that is being "actively exploited." Apple also released the security fix for those still running iOS 15.

techcrunch.comApple fixes ‘actively exploited’ zero-day security vulnerability affecting most iPhonesThe iPhone security flaw was discovered by a Google unit that uncovers nation-state spyware, hacking and cyberattacks.

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