Hashtag Trending Mar.5- Apple Music fined for market dominance; LockBit back from the dead; OpenAI kills ChatGPT plugins
Apple Music gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the hits just keep on coming. It’s not the opposing candidates, it’s public AI systems that are spreading election disinformation, and LockBit, the cybercriminal gang may be back from the dead and saying so long to the ChatGPT plugins, which went from innovation to legacy
Hashtag Trending Mar.5- Apple Music fined for market dominance; LockBit back from the dead; OpenAI kills ChatGPT plugins
Apple Music gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the hits just keep on coming. It’s not the opposing candidates, it’s public AI systems that are spreading election disinformation, and LockBit, the cybercriminal gang may be back from the dead and saying so long to the ChatGPT plugins, which went from innovation to legacy
Spotify launches AI voice translator for podcasts
Spotify is set to take podcasting to a new level with its new AI voice translation feature which allows listeners to enjoy podcasts in their native language, even if they were originally recorded in English. The AI voice translation feature uses OpenAI’s latest voice-generating technology to preserve the speaker’s style and intonation, resulting in a […]
Spotify calls for faster regulatory action on Apple’s App Store practices
Spotify has called on governments around the world to move faster to crack down on Apple’s App Store restrictions, saying that the company’s “artificial constraints” are stifling innovation and harming consumers. In a blog post, Spotify’s Chief Public Affairs Officer, Dustee Jenkins, said that Apple’s practices are denying consumers the ability to choose for themselves, […]
Spotify to lay off 6% of its staff
Spotify announced plans to lay off 6% of its workforce and take a related charge of up to nearly $50 million, adding to the massive layoffs in the technology sector in anticipation of a possible recession. Spotify employs approximately 9,800 people, so the layoffs will affect approximately 600 people. According to its LinkedIn profile, the […]
Spotify back up after outage
Spotify, a music streaming platform, experienced a brief outage on Friday night, leaving several users without access to the live music streaming platform. According to DownDetector, over 38,000 users in the United States reported issues while using the audio streaming platform. At 7.12 a.m., more than 5,500 users in the United Kingdom reported problems with […]
Musk, Spotify, and Epic Games against Apple 30% fees
Elon Musk has found allies in music streaming giant Spotify and Epic Games, creators of the popular online game Fortnite, who, like Musk, are fed up with Apple’s 30% App Store fees. Musk first chastised Apple for charging software developers a fee for in-app purchases and posted a meme implying he was willing to “go […]
Critical vulnerability discovered in Spotify Backstage platform
A vulnerability has been discovered in Spotify’s open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-incubated project Backstage, that could allow threat actors to execute remote code execution (RCE). The Oxeye research team discovered a way to escape a virtual machine (VM) sandbox by using a third-party library called vm2. Oxeye claimed to have identified more than 500 […]
Spotify Slows Hiring Plans By 25%
Spotify will cut hiring by 25%. In an email to employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told employees that the company will continue hiring but will slow down and be “a bit more prudent” in the next few quarters. Speaking at an investor conference earlier this month, Spotify’s chief financial officer Paul Vogel said the company […]
Google To Allow Spotify Use Its Own Payment System
Google will allow music streaming platform, Spotify to use its own payment system in the Google Play Store app.
