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Epic Games has just won a crusade against Apple and Google's App Store policies. A federal court in Australia on Tuesday determined that Apple and Google were engaged in anti-competitive conduct with regard to their respective app stores, ABC News reported. Judge Jonathan Beach found that two tech giants had abused their dominant position in the market for app distribution to limit competition, but he rejected Epic's claim that the company was engaged in “ruthless conduct.” Epic Games is fighting Apple and Google pricing structures for in-app purchases in various jurisdictions around the globe. The company won a major victory…

Slow Ventures' Creator Fund invested $2 million in Jonathan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, with nearly 75 million video views and his own line of woodworking tools. This is Slow's $60 million creator fund's first investment since its launch in February. The fund is trying to help creators launch their businesses under the belief that the successful influencers can make them great founders. Slow Ventures partner Billy Parks, who speaks to TechCrunch, said the role of creators has changed significantly over the past decade or so, from creators who are primarily focused on media and…

On Tuesday, Apple released its sixth developer beta for its mobile operating system, along with updates to iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac and more. As the new software approaches its release date in September, changes and tweaks are less important, but there are still some surprises. Beta 6 includes new ringtone choices, final decisions regarding camera swipe direction controversy, new onboarding experiences and other updates. Half a dozen new ringtones additions, all “Reflection” songs variations were unexpected additions already attracting attention on social media. Early Adapters are particularly enthusiastic about the “Dreamer” ringtones that are said to be “hard”,…

Fashion Resale Marketplace Poshmark announced Monday that its founder, Manish Chandra, has resigned as CEO. Nam-seung Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed his successor. Chandra founded Poshmark in 2011 along with three co-founders in a Silicon Valley garage. Under his leadership, the company was published and acquired by Naver in 2022, and has grown to 150 million users to date. Almost 15 years later, he will transition to becoming a member of the board of directors. In an email sent to the user, Chandra wrote: “To lead this company was the greatest honor of…

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it had seized servers and $1 million in Bitcoin from the prolific Russian ransomware gang behind the black suits and royal malware. According to a press release, a coalition of global law enforcement agencies, including the US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, and the UK, seized four servers and nine domains on July 24th. Additionally, authorities seized about $1 million in cryptocurrency. Blacksuit and Royal are two different ransomware believed to have been developed by the same Russian cybercrime gang targeting critical infrastructure in the US and beyond. “The Blacksuit actor has requested…

TechCrunch's 2025 will feature a candid conversation at Builders Stage in 2025, taking place in Moscone West, San Francisco from October 27-29. This unlocks what startup funding looks like beyond venture capital Echo Chamber. Funding routes that don't start in the valley Today's founders have more capital paths than ever before. But how do you navigate them? And do you know which ones actually support your growth? In this session, listen to Erik Allebest, CEO and co-founder of Chess.com. Gale Wilkinson, Vitalize's founder and managing partner. Kay Makishi, Vice President of Lupoff/Stevens Family Office. Each brings a different perspective on…

A new personal productivity app called Ocean launches to triage your overloaded inbox, turn emails into tasks and take actions, and share all the availability of meetings with other apps with one app. Today, Gmail is very dominant in the email market where there are very challengers. Realizing this, Ocean decided to work with Gmail rather than compete with it. As a third-party client, it is difficult to gain foothold in the market, but successful email apps have proven lucrative acquisitions. Yahoo bought the email app Xobni for $60 million, and Microsoft snapped compri for $200 million over the past…

Games Giant Electronic Arts launched an open beta over the weekend for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 6. Soon after the game's launch, countless players complained online about encountering a con man. In response, members of Electronic Arts' anti-cheat team passing through AC wrote in the official forum that they reported 104,000 “instances of potential con artists” in the first two days the game is online, and 330,000 “stop attempts to deceive or tamper with anti-cheat control.” Like many video games such as Valorant, Electronic Arts uses a kernel-level anti-cheat system called Javelin. This means that the system has the…

In 2024 Apple showed a fashionable demo of what they said to be a new, intelligent Siri that connects to different apps and retrieves all kinds of information. However, this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as it appears that the company has not been able to prepare it. However, Bloomberg reports that Apple is currently testing a version of SIRI. The company plans to release a new version of the app Intents. Its framework allows developers to allow users to access parts of the app through various systems, such as searching and shortcuts. Bloomberg reported…

Security researchers said a flaw in the automaker's online dealer portal could have made it public with customer personal information and vehicle data, allowing hackers to remotely break into one of the customer's vehicles. Eaton Zveare, a security researcher at software distribution company Harness, told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered allowed him to create an administrator account that granted “free access” to Carmaker's centralized web portal, which had no name. This access allowed malicious hackers to view personal and financial data from car manufacturer customers, track vehicles, and register their customers with features that allow the owner or hacker…