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March 07, 2024

Daily Tech News 7 March 2024

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With Europe's new DMA laws requiring both smartphone companies to open up their marketplaces, Google is taking a leaf out of Apple's book and imposing a 27% fee on all purchases made through third-party marketplaces running on Android. (Tech Crunch)

Because they can.
Meanwhile with Epic Games planning to open an app store on iOS in Europe Apple has simply terminated their account. (WCCFTech)

The EU is probably rubbing their hands with glee at this, because it gives them grounds to fine Apple more billions of dollars.

Tech News

There's a bunch of new security vulnerabilities in VMWare, including three related to the virtual USB controller. (Ars Technica)

VMWare suggests disabling USB support. That will make your keyboard stop working, but whatever.
If you want a seriously fast desktop PC - and you're spending someone else's money - Dell's Precision 7875 might suit. (Hot Hardware)

The 96 core Threadripper 7995WX CPU is paired with two 48GB Nvidia RTX 6000 graphics cards. The model tested "only" had 128GB of RAM, but you can upgrade that to 1TB.

One small problem: As tested, $31,065.
OpenAI has clarified what the "open" in "OpenAI" means in the face of Elon Musk's lawsuit alleging that the company is not actually open. (Ars Technica)

Apparently the "open" in "OpenAI" means not open.

I'm not sure how they view this as a rebuttal, but it is what they said.
Microsoft also has its idiots. (Thurrott)

Not as prevalent perhaps, or at least better under control than at Google, but one of the companies AI engineers reported the company to the FTC because, as an AI engineer, he could work around the filters deployed by other AI engineers to create content he considered, as an idiot, to be problematic.
Warner Brothers has announced that it will shift its gaming focus from shitty expensive games to shitty cheap games. (GameSpot)

Not under consideration: Making good games.

Disclaimer: Don't eat brown snow either.

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