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ChatGPT Now Has an iPhone App
People in Montana will soon need a TikTok VPN to keep accessing the app
Watch out for sneaky ChatGPT scams in Google Play and Apple’s App Store
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On Wednesday, security firm Sophos published a report showing that Apple’s and Google’s app stores are becoming riddled with ChatGPT programs that are nothing but “fleeceware” – software that quietly sticks users with subscription fees. The apps claim to connect to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and many do. However, they also charge…
Crunchyroll And Duolingo Are Collaborating To Bring Anime Phrases To The Language Learning App
Crunchyroll is teaming up with Duolingo to help you learn Japanese with some of anime’s most famous or iconic phrases. The collaboration is a celebration of the sixth anniversary of Duolingo’s Japanese course.
From today forward, the Japanese Duolingo course will include almost 50 phrases inspired by anime. A collaboration like this makes a lot of sense. According to the press release, Japanese is the third most popular language for English speakers on Duolingo. Almost a third of Japanese learners cite fun as their motivation for learning the language, which suggests that anime and video games may be chief motivators.
There are also some subscriber promotions associated with the collab. Premium Crunchyroll subscribers can grab two free months of Super Duolingo, the premium version of the app that removes ads and includes additional features. Free Crunchyroll users can obtain a one-month trial of Super Duolingo. Likewise, Duolingo users learning Japanese can pick up one free month of Crunchy Mega Fan premium access for ad-free streaming.
Apple says its App Store prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year
Apple’s App Store prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions last year, the tech giant touted in a press release on Tuesday. The company says it rejected nearly 1.7 million app submissions in 2022 for failing to meet the App Store’s standards for privacy and security. The press release comes as Apple faces a […]
Apple says its App Store prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Apple Claims App Store Security Features Prevented Over $2 Billion in Fraudulent Transactions in 2022
Close to 3.9 million stolen credit cards were prevented from being used to make fraudulent purchases within apps, and 714,000 accounts were banned from transacting again, which is how Apple ended up at the $2 billion figure.
Apple says that it also rejected almost 1.7 million app submissions for apps that did not meet App Store standards for “privacy, security, and content.” Of those 1.7 million apps, 400,000 were rejected for privacy violations, 153,000 were rejected for spam, copying an existing app, or misleading users, and 29,000 were rejected for including hidden or undocumented features.
428,000 developer accounts were terminated for potentially fraudulent activity, and 105 million fraudulent developer account creations were blocked. Apple also deactivated 282 million fraudulent customer accounts and blocked another 198 million before they were created.
Fewer fraudulent developer accounts were terminated in 2022 than 2021 because of “new methods and protocols” that Apple implemented to make fraudulent account creation more difficult. Apple claims that it protected users from “nearly 57,000” apps sourced from “illegitimate storefronts” that distribute harmful software. Over 147 million fraudulent ratings and reviews were blocked from the App Store, preventing customers from being tricked by reviews left by bot accounts.
Apple’s App Store security figures come as it is facing pressure to allow iPhone and iPad customers to install apps outside of the App Store through “sideloading” or alternate app marketplaces. The European Union has already passed legislation forcing Apple to allow apps to be installed outside of the App Store, functionality that the company is expected to implement in Europe as soon as iOS 17.
The United States is working on similar legislation to allow customers to bypass the App Store, and Apple says such mandates would “undermine the privacy and security protections” that iPhone users have come to rely on and would allow “malware, scams, and data-exploitation to proliferate.”
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Apple Overhauls Support App With Updated Layout and Easier Access to Local Providers
According to Apple, the updated version of the app has a new layout to make it easier to view and manage calls, chats, and reservations, along with quicker access to the locations of nearby service providers.
What this means in practice is that Apple has added a navigation bar to the bottom of the app with “Support,” “Locations,” and “Activity” tabs. The Activity tab lists all of the support activity over the past 90 days, such as past and upcoming reservations and calls, while Locations shows you a list of service providers and options to schedule a repair.
The main Support tab continues to offer all of the same functionality that it did before, with options to manage subscriptions, check AppleCare coverage, and search for device advice.
In addition to the layout updates, Apple has also expanded Support app access to Vietnam and added Vietnamese as a supported language, with this change coming following the launch of the online Apple Store in Vietnam. Apple says the Apple Support app is available in 174 regions and 32 languages.
The Apple Support app is a free app that can be downloaded from the App Store. [Direct Link]
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Data.ai: Mobile game app revenue split evenly between ads, IAP
Amazon is working on infusing generative AI into its shopping app
Amazon is working on infusing generative AI features akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard AI to its shopping application and website in an effort to provide a more conversational experience, job postings on the company’s career section indicate.
The job postings sought a senior development engineer for machine learning and another engineer to “rearchitect” the search engine or feature inside Amazon’s shopping application.