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According to a news article published on the website Politico on August 26, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the first stages of crafting a prospective antitrust case against Apple Inc. Politico cited someone with firsthand knowledge of the situation. Requests for a response from Reuters were not immediately answered by Apple or the U.S. Department of Justice.

An ex-Apple worker admitted to stealing records pertaining to the company's much-awaited self-driving vehicle. The worker, Xiaolang Zhang, worked on the project from 2015 to 2018 before joining Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, in China. Apple reportedly learned Zhang used Airdrop to send 24GB of "highly problematic" files to his wife's laptop. His sentencing date is set for November. Jizhong Chen, another ex-Apple employee, is also… read-more

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov criticized Apple's opaque review process for preventing them from releasing a new upgrade that would affect how individuals access themselves in chat. He went on to say that the update had been bogged down in Apple's approval process for two weeks. Durov went on to attack Apple, claiming that if one of the top 10… read-more

Apple is eliminating its mask rule for corporate staff in most regions, according to an internal document posted by the Verge on August 1. This comes as the Omicron forms of COVID-19 infections have been increasing in the United States. "Don't hesitate to continue wearing a face mask if you feel more… read-more

An Apple iPhone 13 Pro that was dropped into the English Channel by mistake survived five hours in the water. “7 hours until the tide went out & it turned itself back on. I tracked it down & remarkably no damage after being in the sea for over 5hr,” said the owner. The user uploaded a snapshot of the Find My app, which he used to find his phone.