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This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes…

Rundown

• Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products
  • Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case
  • Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
  • Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments
  • FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
  • Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw
  • The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event
  • iPadOS 15.
• Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk

Relevant to your interests

• Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
• Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video
• EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
• Epic is shutting down Houseparty
• Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances
• Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen
• Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
• How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe
• Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet
• Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment
• Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
• Open Scheduling Infrastructure, Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation
• The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape
• Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs
• strongDM Raises $54M Series B ****
• Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding
• Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group
• Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly
• Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
• Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation
• Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion

Nonsense

• They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas
• How long are you in meetings?
• Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About
• Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget

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Conferences

• DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
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