Sean Hollister (PDF, Hacker News, Slashdot): Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening.[…]Now, instead, Google is agreeing to reduce its standard fee to 20 percent or 9 percent, depending on the kind […]

Nassim Khadem (via Diego Barros): Microsoft has apologised to customers and said it will refund them, after the consumer watchdog alleged the tech giant misled about 2.7 million Australians over subscription costs so they would remain on more expensive plans.[…]Announcing the court action last week, the consumer watchdog slammed Microsoft for the conduct, alleging it […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.1 includes Swift 6.2.1 and SDKs for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1. Xcode 26.1 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.1 requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. Steve Troughton-Smith: […]

Thomas Claburn (Hacker News, Slashdot): Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company’s AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured […]

Tom Warren: The AI-powered mode allows Copilot to search across all your open tabs and handle tasks like booking a restaurant, and it brings the Copilot chatbot to your new tab page. […] Copilot in Edge also supports voice navigation to locate information on a website or to open tabs with products to compare. Microsoft […]