Twitter Blue to price extra for iPhone customers, huge tech corporations will share a multi-billion greenback contract from the Pentagon, and the FBI is worried with Apple’s new security measures.
That’s all of the tech news that’s trending proper now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Friday December ninth and I’m your host, Ashee Pamma.
Even although the Twitter Blue plan is on a hiatus in the mean time, when it makes its comeback iOS customers must pay $11 per month. A report from The Information discovered that the subscription plan will price $7 per thirty days if you are going to buy from the net however to offset Apple’s App Store charges, iOS customers might want to chip in a couple of further {dollars}. Apple prices 30 per cent charges to the builders for the primary yr of subscription, but it surely drops to fifteen per cent from the second yr. Elon Musk has expressed his personal issues with Apple’s payment coverage. Last month, he described them as a “secret tax” imposed by the corporate.
Big tech corporations Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share Pentagon’s $9 billion contract to construct its cloud computing community. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability goals to supply entry to unclassified, and top-secret information to army employees internationally. According to AP News, it’s anticipated to behave as an assistant for the Pentagon’s fashionable warfare operations, which can rely closely on unmanned plane and area communications satellites, however want a solution to get the intelligence from these platforms to troops on the bottom in a fast, seamless method. The contract is estimated to be full by June 2028.
According to the FBI, Apple’s rising security measures on the iPhone “hinders” the company’s capability to guard Americans. Apple’s new safety plans embrace further finish to finish encryption for many iCloud providers. iMessage identification verification and two-factor authentication of Apple IDs utilizing {hardware} keys are further security measures, anticipated to roll out in 2023. The FBI instructed the Washington Post that it was “deeply concerned with the threat end-to-end and user-only-access encryption pose,” talking on issues for individuals inside the U.S. The company stated it is going to influence their capability to guard Americans from risks akin to cyber-attacks, violence in opposition to youngsters, drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism. A report from Apple Insider famous that the FBI and others have frequently pressed Apple so as to add a method for legislation enforcement to see all information, however Apple has refused.
Reddit’s Recap dropped on Thursday and revealed the highest moments, communities and matters the Reddit group dove into in 2022. As of November, Reddit noticed a complete of 430 million and a couple of.5 billion feedback. The most considered communities on Reddit embrace “askreddit,” “NBA,” “World News,” and “Personal Finance Canada.” The “Made Me Smile” subreddit noticed a forty five per cent improve in views in comparison with final yr—making it the #38 most-viewed subreddit total. Some of the largest smiles got here from posts about courageous most cancers survivors and proposals in mid-air. A thread about news in Ukraine had 1.8 billion views with 6 million posts and feedback in 2022 alone. Lastly, In the tech class, the subreddit “Space” went from the #11 to the #4 most-viewed subreddit.
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