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January 26, 2024

Daily Tech News 26 January 2024

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Apple is bringing third-party app stores and side-loading to the iPhone. (The Verge)

But only in the EU.
Apple will allow full versions of Firefox and Chrome browsers to run on the iPhone, instead of just hastily-drawn skins on top of Safari. (The Verge)

But only in the EU.
Epic Games will make its app store and the game Fortnite available on iPhones. (The Verge)

But only in the EU.
Twitter has been flooded with risque AI-generated images of Taylor Swift. (The Verge)

But only in the EU. Wait.

Tech News

The Pokemon (with a little thing on the e) Company has announced it intends to investigate Palworld (over eleventy billion sold). (Tech Crunch)

Except that The Pokemon (with a little thing on the e) Company announced no such thing. Tech Crunch includes the full text of the announcement, and it's lawyer boilerplate that TPwaltoteC will take legal action against infringing content.

Palworld has been in development for three years now. No action from TPC.

A mod that made Palworld look just like Pokemon came out this week and it was taken down the same day.
Microsoft has announced layoffs - A Thing of the Past (TM) - of 1900 Xbox and Activision staff. (The Verge)

Including the president of Blizzard, which is part of Activision, which Microsoft owns.
The Hugo Awards are in the spotlight again, for the usual reasons: They are complete garbage and have been for the past decade. (The Guardian)

In this case, the 2023 awards were held in China, and multiple award nominations that received enough votes to be on their respective shortlists... Weren't.

The head of the awards jury, Dave McCarty issued a particularly blatant non-denial:
There was no communication between the Hugo administration team and the Chinese government in any official manner.
But unofficially...
"After reviewing the constitution and the rules we must follow, the administration team determined those works/persons were not eligible." He declined to elaborate on what the rules were.
The rules that let us get out of the country with our kneecaps.

Disclaimer: Oh, those rules.

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