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  11 hours ago

  Schiller doesn’t know whether the App Store is profitable; there are no minutes of meetings

  9to5Mac - Ben Lovejoy

  Phil Schiller has told a court in an antitrust case that he doesn’t know for sure whether the App Store is profitable, and never considered the return on investment when launching it. He’s also explained the reason that there are very few written records of decisions made around the launch of the …

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  20 hours ago

  Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead

  bbc.co.uk - By Olga Ivshina, Becky Dale & Kirstie Brewer

  Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC can confirm. In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year. BBC Russian, independent media group …

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  1 day ago

  Apple’s AirTags Are Accessible, But Their Achilles Heel Is An Inaccessible Battery Door

  Forbes - Steven Aquino

  I spent last week on vacation in San Diego visiting family and going to places like the San Diego Zoo. My partner and I decided to fly down to SoCal from San Francisco, as we’ve flown a lot in this first quarter of the year and wanted to maintain the momentum. As an Apple-centric household, we’ve …

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  1 day ago

  Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap

  Ars Technica - Kevin Purdy

  One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool. Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person's commit …

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  1 day ago

  Russian space chief says new rocket will put Falcon 9 reuse to shame

  Ars Technica - Eric Berger

  There's just one catch... Russia's once-vaunted launch industry has been much in decline due to a combination of factors, including an aging fleet of …

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  2 days ago

  Meta is shutting down Threads in Turkey following injunction against data-sharing with Instagram

  Engadget - Lawrence Bonk

  The social media app goes offline April 29. Meta is shutting down Threads in Turkey on April 29 after an interim injunction from the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) against automatic data-sharing with Instagram. The TCA ruled that linking Threads and Instagram without user opt-in “will lead to …