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The European Commission says it’s made commitments offered by Apple in January legally binding, allowing third-party developers to use the NFC functionality on iOS devices without being tied to Apple Pay or Apple Wallet.
The acceptance officially settles a four-year EU investigation and spares Apple from facing fines of up to $40 billion. EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said:
“It opens up competition in this crucial sector, by preventing Apple from excluding other mobile wallets from the iPhone’s ecosystem.”
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The European Commission has designated XNXX as a “very large online platform” under the Digital Services Act (DSA), potentially requiring the website to bolster its content moderation and age verification processes.
The designation follows that of other adult content platforms — Pornhub, Xvideos, and Stripchat — last year. XNXX has until “mid-November 2024” to comply by submitting a risk assessment report.
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As reported by The Financial Times:
In previously unreleased figures, X said its number of global daily active users in the second quarter of this year was 251mn, a rise of 1.6 per cent from the same period the year before.
The stalled growth and general turmoil at X, ever since Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, created an opening for Zuckerberg’s Threads to attract 175 million monthly users in its first year.