Apollo, a popular third-party Reddit app, will close on June 30, 2023, due to Reddit’s new API pricing plans, which would cost Apollo $20 million per year to operate. This is unsustainable for an indie developer. Christian Selig, the app’s creator, was one of the first to point out that …
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How Elizabeth Holmes was imprisoned
Theranos was worth $10 billion ten years ago. Wire fraud indicted her five years ago. Holmes began her 11-year-and-3-month sentence today. A defendant is usually convicted and imprisoned soon after indictment. Holmes’ legal team has played every card to delay her fall, which was once hailed as the next Steve …
Read More »Portal’s Mac software focuses with lifelike backgrounds and sounds
Productivity app Portal’s Mac app launched. With vivid backgrounds and natural sounds, the company helps customers focus and work better. The PC and iOS apps share goals. The company reported over a million app downloads. The native Mac program, compatible with Apple silicon, targets professionals who work from home and …
Read More »Months after being launched on Google Play, a popular Android app started snooping on users
A cybersecurity group claims that a popular Android screen recording software with tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store began spying on its users, capturing microphone recordings and other phone data. ESET observed that the Android app “iRecorder — Screen Recorder” released the malicious code as an app …
Read More »Celebrities fund consumer savings startup Checkmate
Everybody has. Shopping online and desperate for a promo code to save money. I was there. Enter Checkmate. The startup wants to end promo/discount/coupon code hunting. For that, it raised $15 million in Series A funding. This raise had some interesting features. Checkmate recently raised $5 million. Raising capital soon …
Read More »OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in 6 days
Before today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app was successful in the U.S. and iOS. According to data.ai, the app has reached half a million downloads in its first six days. Only the Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social’s February 2022 launch outperformed it. As demand for AI …
Read More »11 more countries have the official ChatGPT app
OpenAI tweeted that the official ChatGPT mobile app is available in more countries. Last week, OpenAI launched its iOS-only mobile app in the U.S. Europe, South Korea, New Zealand, and more can now download the app from the App Store. Ad-free ChatGPT is free. Since it’s just a chatbot interface, …
Read More »First-time researchers found wartime spyware
Security researchers and digital rights organizations believe the Azerbaijani government used NSO Group spyware to target a government worker, journalists, activists, and Armenia’s human rights ombudsperson as part of a years-long conflict that has sometimes escalated into war. Access Now, a digital rights group that investigated some of the cyberattacks, …
Read More »WhatsApp allows 15-minute edits
Today, WhatsApp announced message editing, a long-awaited feature. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that users can now edit messages within 15 minutes. Press and hold a message and tap “edit” to change it. Edited messages will be marked “edited” next to the time stamp. The app won’t save corrections. Edited …
Read More »Meta ordered to suspend Facebook EU data flows after record €1.2BN GDPR privacy fine
Meta, formerly Facebook, has been ordered to stop exporting EU user data to the U.S. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) fined Meta €1.2 billion (close to $1.3 billion) today, the largest GDPR fine ever. Amazon was fined $887 million in 2021 for misusing customer data for ad targeting. Meta …
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