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Apple worked with the Trump administration to remove ICE-tracking apps from its App Store, according to a lawmaker. Whether officials pushed decides whether this is a First Amendment matter, and so far the public record is that claim plus a reader thread.
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DeFiLlama says months of trademark reports achieved nothing, so it fed a funded wallet to the impersonator. Brand enforcement on the App Store now looks like a cost line, not a right.
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Meta opened Muse to outside developers last week, and it will review and feature the connectors they submit. The App Store's arrangement is the model, one week into Muse's run at the top of the free chart.
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Discord says activity data and account age will label 90% of accounts correctly with no user effort. The other tenth picks from five ways to prove an age, including the ID scan whose vendor breach exposed 70,000 government IDs in October.
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Discord's age-assurance rollout places accounts in Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed groups using signals such as the servers a user joined and how old the account is. The company expects more than 90% of users will never see a confirmation prompt.
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Discord's delayed age assurance starts this week, filing accounts as Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed from signals like account age, servers and games. The seven ways to prove you are 18 exist for the minority the model cannot place.
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Meta's Muse agent reached the top of Apple's free app chart by doing users' shopping for them, and Amazon shut it out of its store on contract grounds, a theory Amazon already lost a ruling on against Perplexity.
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Meta's first TV spot for its personal AI agent shows Muse sorting email, fixing a schedule and buying school supplies unsupervised. That picture of what an agent does now reaches employees through consumer advertising before any workplace pilot does.
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A one-line logic error took about 8 hours to fix on Android and 12 on iOS through the stores, so one Flutter team moved Dart fixes to code push, where the wait is a background download and a restart.
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Anthropic's investigation counted 2.36 million messages over two weeks in April 2026. The operators put paid humans on video calls and let a second AI model draft their lines, so the face on the call and the words in the chat came from different places.
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A Benzinga reviewer's two-night Marriott booking went through while Muse reported that the card had not been charged. Shown a screenshot of the charge, the agent booked a second room, and a clerk canceled it.
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Sensor Tower puts Muse past 83,000 iOS downloads in the United States in its first two days. Threads did more than 4.3 million on its launch day, and the Meta AI app did 108,000 on its first. Muse is No. 2 anyway.
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A dev.to walkthrough wires Shorebird's three official actions into a Flutter repository, where seven of the eight secrets exist only to sign store binaries and the patch workflow itself is never shown.
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Chief Judge Colm Connolly treated the words "formerly known as Twitter" in X's app listing as live use of the brand, while Musk's 2023 posts about blow torches and all the birds cost the company the tweet mark and the bird logo.
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Verizon's 2026 DBIR puts mobile phishing simulation click rates 40% above email. Most of those attempts never reach a security team, because the report button, the gateway and the triage queue all sit in the inbox.
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The state's first count rests on a 13-year-old test account and the answers Snap gave Apple's rating rubric, which pulls store listings into consumer protection law.
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