US FTC sends compliance letters to Amazon, Alphabet, Apple over new intimate image removal law

Apple's stock resilience amid geopolitical tensions highlights its ability to mitigate economic risks, influencing market confidence and dynamics. The post Apple stock hits all-time high amid geopolitical tensions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The FTC's action signals increased regulatory scrutiny on tech giants, potentially reshaping compliance norms and privacy safeguards industry-wide. The post FTC sends compliance letters to Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple over Take It Down Act appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

As Apple heads toward next month’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), cast your mind back almost 30 years. That’s when something happened that arguably put events in motion that led to Apple becoming the company it is today. That was when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the top job at WWDC 1997 — the first such event after Apple acquired NeXT. The big debt to NS It took until 2000 to fully realize what the NeXT purchase meant; that’s when the Mac OS X Public Beta was released. The operating system has seen many twists and turns since then, but the NeXTStep OS acquisition forms the basis on which the Apple software ecosystem has been built. Mac, iPhone, iPad – even Apple Watch and Vision Pro – all share elements of it. You can see its traces each time you use an application that makes use of a macOS API that uses the NS — ‘NeXTStep’ prefix. That means you’re using NeXT when you work in SwiftUI, use Apple’s core frameworks, or write code for use across different platforms in

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Apple’s platforms are secure by design, but when it comes to authentication, the company seems to be protecting employees more than it protects IT admins. It’s an attack vector just waiting to be exploited — if it hasn’t been already. As noted first by Six Colors, the problem is that administrator and People Manager accounts on Apple Business Manager (ABM) can’t sign in using federated authentication, even though they manage the federation process for everyone else.  What are the implications? What this means in practice is that when admins engage with the authentication process, they need to do so using non-federated Apple Account sign-in with Apple’s two‑factor authentication (typically via a trusted device or trusted phone number using SMS/voice). That’s weird; it means the key accounts that manage protection for sometimes thousands of devices are still only protected by a six-digit SMS code sent to a specified phone number. We know that SMS authentication is risky, with three well-

Alphabet's rise highlights a market shift towards diversified tech giants, emphasizing AI's growing role in reshaping corporate valuations. The post Alphabet challenges Nvidia for title of world’s largest company appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Google just updated its stock investment portfolio appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. While coverage of 13-F filings tends to focus on individual celebrity investors such as Michael Burry or Warren Buffett, or major banks, another important actor in the business world provided an update for its stock portfolio in early May: Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL). The document showed that between the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2025 and Q1 of 2026, Google increased the value of its holdings by as much as $1.5 billion despite decreasing the number of company stocks held by 3: from 29 to 26. Simultaneously, it showed that the balance within the portfolio changed significantly, with an entirely new equity taking the top spot and accounting for as much as 26% of the total. Google Q1 2026 stock investment portfolio. Source: SEC Google bought and sold these stocks in Q1, 2026 Specifically, Google appears to have developed entirely new positions in three companies: nearly 3.5 million shares of CME Gro