Apple’s Legal Battle with Epic Games Escalates #1819

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
The lead story for Thursday, May 5, Apple's
filed an appeal to overturn a recent court
ruling
in a legal battle with Epic Games,
which barred the company from charging developers fees
on purchases made outside the App
Store. The ruling follow accusations
that Apple defied a prior injunction

(00:21):
and misused legal privilege to delay the case.
The judge also referred Apple's VP of finance
for potential criminal investigation
due to false testimony.
If upheld, the ruling could reshape Apple's fee
structure
and App Store control.
I wanna welcome you to episode 1,819.

(00:42):
I'm your host,
Todd Cochran of the Geek News Central
podcast. Welcome, everyone.
And, boy, I tell you this this battle
this battle with Apple just continues
to,
to go on. And Apple's tried every single
trick in the book to
the main control of the App Store and

(01:03):
and their 30%
take on anything that happens on the iPhone.
And this stinging rebuke
that the lower court placed upon them,
was pretty,
inflammatory.
Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers not only agreed with
Epic Games but also found that Apple's vice

(01:23):
president
of finance had lied under oath
and referred the matter to district federal prosecutor
for potential criminal investigation.
The judge additionally sanctioned a Apple for misuse
of attorney client privileges
designation
to delay
proceedings.
And,

(01:44):
you know, the lawsuit
that result in a court order in joining
Apple from anti steering activities
that has hindered developers from telling users to
make purchases out the inside the app.
And,
I tell you, with the Epic having,
alleged that Apple violated this order, it's it's

(02:07):
it's a pretty
serious, situation for Apple at this point.
So we will see where this leads.
Apple has definitely appealed already,
but,
you know, maybe
maybe there's gonna be some relief for,
some of these,
some of these app developers.
Again, I wanna welcome you in 1,000, episode

(02:29):
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Matter of fact,
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It's
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Well,
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Let's go ahead and get into,
the tech stack here. Kind of an interesting
lineup of stuff today. UAE,
the country,

(07:12):
has introduced AI to public school curriculum this
year as a Gulf country advised to become
a regional powerhouse for AI development.
The subjects that we rolled out
in kindergarten pupils through twelfth grade
include ethical awareness as well as foundational
concepts in real world application.

(07:33):
The UAE is joining a group of countries
integrating a AI into school education.
I'm kind of interesting. You know, Beijing did
this as well,
for primary and secondary schools in China,
last month.
What are you seeing in your children's schools
in The United States or in Europe

(07:54):
or in Canada? I would really,
love to know. Let me know,
what you see in your communities,
and how much AI is being used except
saying you can't use it.
Yeah. Just drop me a line on that.
I'd appreciate to hear what you're what's happening
in your school districts.

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China
is, developing a
6,500
feet below sea level
underwater station. So that yeah. They're going to
over a mile deep.
And,
I don't know if this is a mock
up image.
It's on the screen for those of you

(08:36):
watching live, but,
again, an underwater station.
And what are they gonna be
looking at? Well,
energy.
70,000,000,000
tons of methane hydrates
are relocated beneath the seabed,
roughly equivalent to half of China's current oil

(08:56):
and gas reserves,
and this resource could dramatically
alter the country's energy economy.
So they're trying to figure that out. They're
also trying to figure out how to get
rare minerals such as cobalt and nickel that
are on the ocean floor.
Now,
you know, China is not one

(09:17):
to be very,
very conscious of ecosystems.
So
if they start mining
the ocean floor, which sounds,
pretty crazy,
just think of the ecological
mess that that would,
that that would occur.

(09:37):
I I just it just seems to me,
it's it's crazy. How they do that? Again,
I don't know.
But,
yeah, they're gonna put in a six what
could go wrong at 6,500? Because it's just
has to be
a lot more can a lot more technological
advance than even the International Space Station. So,

(10:00):
good luck to that.
A White House budget proposal,
slashes half a billion from CISA. And I
don't know how much they get
every year to begin with,
but,
the White House justification was echoed by the
Department of Homeland Security
that accused the CISA of string from its

(10:21):
founding principles.
The DHS was conducting a review of c
as I CISA
structure finding
that the staff
insist that a oh, they've they're gonna be
reoriented to its original May emission on cyber
defense.
But they found that CISA was more focused

(10:42):
on censorship
than protecting nations nation's critical
systems. I'd like to know more information on
that.
What were they exactly
doing?
The budget eliminates
a so called misinformation
and propaganda as well as external engagement
office such as international affairs.

(11:04):
Apparently, according to the government, these programs and
offices were used as a hub in
in the censorship
industrial complex to violate first amendment, target Americans
for protected speech, and target,
the executive.
So I'd love to know more details. But
491,000,000

(11:24):
out of whatever their current budget is is
significant.
Waymo says it will add 2,000 more robotaxis
in 2026.
So Waymo said it's recently,
received its last delivery of the Jaguar I
PACE SUV,
which will be retrofitted with sensors and autonomous
driving tech at its factory in Arizona.

(11:46):
So,
in a blog pace blog post today, the
Alphabet company said it currently has 1,500
Jaguars
operating across its four main markets, San Francisco,
LA, Phoenix, and Austin, and plans on adding
2,000 more vehicles in 2026.

(12:10):
The question is, why are they
why did they use Jaguars? Why didn't they
use American vehicles?
I I would kinda love to know that.
There's probably a
a reason for it,
but one can only tell.
SpaceX launch a Starlink mission deleted indefinitely at
Vandenberg, so it's a little bit weird. A

(12:31):
a Falcon nine,
once aimed for mid Saturday,
and then Sunday, mission appeared from a list
of upcoming launches.
SpaceX did not explain the reason for the
the delay.
But while the Vandenberg launch has been delayed,
another Falcon mission from Florida delivered 29 satellites.

(12:53):
So keep an eye on this and see
what's going on.
Maybe there was a problem with the rocket
development that they needed to say, okay. We
need to take this back
and work on it time.
We'll see what happens when we get some
updates.
An IPV six
networking feature has been hit by hackers to
hijack software updates. This has been going on

(13:13):
for a while.
According to the article, Chinese threat fact threat
actors called the Wizards
observe
running a Slack s l l s l
a c attack since
2022.
The attack delivers tainted software updates.
Most most victims were in China, Hong Kong,
here in The Philippines, and UAE.

(13:35):
So as a man in the middle,
delivering updates from a false update server,
So who knows what people got?
Kind of scary.
If you're having problems with your Roku device
with washed out videos,
Roku wants to hear about it. Is the
HDR video quality

(13:55):
looking dull or faded? Apparently, you're they're not
the only one. It happens with the four
k and HDR titles
that appear to be, washed out.
It makes a ton of shows simply unwatchable.
So, of course, HDR is supposed to be
the latest and greatest. So something going on

(14:16):
with the encoder there, but if you're having
trouble,
a Roku would like a a report.
T Mobile's doing a five year price guarantee
to offer some long term
savings.
So,
everyone at T Mobile's new experience more and
experience beyond plans locks in your monthly rate

(14:37):
for full five years.
That covers your on network talk, text, and
five g data. No bait and switch. No
limited prime row, promo shenanigans,
just predictable pricing.
So,
again, it's for
T Mobile new experience
and experience beyond. So it's those,

(14:58):
two plans they're making that available.
The president has announced additional tariffs, including tariffs
on movies.
He says administration
will institute high tariffs on movies at a
%.
And in a Sunday evening truth post, he
claimed that other countries are offering all sorts
of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios

(15:19):
away from The United States,
something that's constituted as a concerted effort by
other nations? Of course,
Hawaii does tax benefits and all kinds of
crazy things, which, of course, is part of
The United States
to pull movie,
creators there.
So the question will be,
what will

(15:40):
that tariff actually look like?
How do they tariff the actual cost?
Is it on the price of the ticket?
Is it the cost? I didn't know there
was a cost to bring a movie into
America, so,
we'll keep an eye on that.
The Apple iPhone Air rumor suggests a bigger
screen coming in 2027.

(16:01):
Again, iPhone
Air
of a 6.6 inch screen versus a 6.9
inch screen.
So,
we'll we'll see about this.
I don't
the Air, is that the foldable phone?

(16:21):
Yeah.
Apple reduces size to 6.6
to avoid another bend gate scenario.
So maybe that's exactly was the air will
be the,
the foldable phone.
Scientists did something kinda cool. They chased the,
falling spacecraft with a plane to understand satellite
air pollution, but this satellite was

(16:43):
coming in,
right at, like, noon at the height of
the,
of the day. And, obviously, the 27 cameras
they had on their spacecraft,
had challenges
following it, but they were able to
detect certain compounds
coming off that you would expect aluminum,

(17:04):
lithium,
and other
chemicals.
And what they're trying to figure out
is how is this affecting the,
the atmosphere.
So
trying to see
if these,
reentering
satellites
are, I guess, causing climate change.

(17:28):
An update to the Cali benefits data breach,
the impact grows to 400,000
individuals.
The company revealed last month that it was
targeted by hackers in December 2024.
The investigation of the attackers managed to exfiltrate
personal information during a five day period,
including Social Security numbers, date of birth, tax
ID numbers, health insurance,

(17:49):
and medical information as well as financial account
information.
So, again, this has grown to
a 400,000
people. If you are affected, you will be
getting a notification
from them on some protective services.
At the same time, Gmail
Gmail servers are been high have been hijacked

(18:09):
by malicious
high ply packages to spread,
havoc.
So, essentially,
updates to Gmail service have pulled in some,
Python stuff that's been
it's being very, very naughty.
Gmail has since

(18:30):
removed
them from their platform,
but it just goes to show even the
big boys can pick stuff up from repositories.
There were seven
malicious
Python packages, some which were sitting on their
platform over more than three years,
and they had over 55,000
downloads. And, those have been removed

(18:52):
from the repositories.
NASA's sphere space
telescope has begun its mission to snap,
to to map the entire sky. I guess
they are taking snaps.
So, again, this space observatory designed to map
the entire sky over a period of two
years.
The further understanding of the early universe has

(19:13):
started snapping images.
The space,
space telescope will complete about 14.5
orbits
per day, capturing 3,600
images daily and observing the sky
in an unprecedented
hundred and two wavelengths
of infrared light. Its observations will eventually be

(19:34):
combined to create for all sky
maps.
This is a twenty five month survey. So
it's one of the most comprehensive
that we have done
from a science standpoint.
So,
we'll see. Are you going to use these
to to examine
the universe's expansion into whatever?

(19:57):
Brazil has a big issue,
and they're going after social media to keep
kids safe. Now
this is something that's,
very curious.
There's Brazilian
kidfluencers,
and these kidfluencers
are being paid
by a variety of agencies

(20:17):
and TikTok,
are promoting products and services. And these kids
is
young as,
I believe, 16.
So, really, it's teenagers. It's not kids.
So one of these individuals has

(20:39):
enough followers where he's earning about a thousand
dollars a month as a 16 year old.
Now
oh, excuse me.
They're targeting nine to 17 year olds,
and Brazil is not liking it at all.
And,
such work under the age of 16 is
considered unlawful child labor.

(21:03):
Unless the creator receives authorization from a judge
to perform artistic labor,
an exemption that is reserved for child actors
and similar artists and could include influencers.
So they're really trying to make sure these,
folks under 16
are not being exploited.

(21:23):
TikTok has been,
allowing folks
to create re accounts under the creator rewards
program
after a lot of this was brought to
light and other agencies,
that they're going after. So
imagine,
you know, nine year old

(21:45):
that's on social media going a little bit
viral
promoting candy or something like that
and getting paid up to a thousand. And
it's actually
more than the, monthly wage of most adults.
So,
interesting times indeed.
A leading deep fake porn site is shut

(22:06):
down for good.
Mister Deepfakes is thankfully no more.
So a critical service provider terminated the service
permanently. Data loss is made impossible to continue
operation.
A notice on the site reads, we'll not
be relaunching any website claiming this is fake.
The domain will eventually expire, and we're not
responsible for for virtue use.

(22:32):
So this is site that I I wasn't
even familiar with,
but
I guess it's been,
a place where a lot of nonconsensual
deep fake
content
has been placed. So,
good riddance.
Microsoft's
next Surface device to be smaller, cheaper, and

(22:53):
arm ready.
Just ahead of the scheduled May 6 event,
Microsoft appears to be preparing to unveil
a fresh lineup of Surface devices.
Microsoft is working in a new 12 inch
Surface Pro and a more compact
13 inch Surface
laptop,
both powered by Qualcomm
snap drop and snap dragon x plus

(23:16):
platform.
And,
so a little bit smaller form factor. And,
for those of you that are
Surface fans,
just be aware that this
is forthcoming. Of course, with the slump in
PC sales, probably bad time to be launching
a whole bunch of new products.
There is a new class action lawsuit going

(23:38):
after Toyota
for illegally sharing driver's data. This is this
is bad.
Better class action lawsuit this week in Texas
accused Toyota and affiliated telemetrics
aggregator
of unlawfully
collecting driver's information and selling that data to
progressive.
Lawsuit alleges Toyota and connected analytic

(23:58):
Services collected vast amounts of vehicle data,
including location, speed, direction, breaking, and swerving,
cornering events, and then shared the information with
the progressive snapshot.
People became aware when they were applying for
progressive
insurance when they said, hey. We've already got
your driving data.
And even a lawyer was affected.

(24:21):
On his on YouTube,
on the YouTube channel, consumer protection attorney Steve
Leto
shared a related experience he had before realizing
he wasn't alone.
I've heard that story from so many people
said, yeah. I just brought a new car,
and the salesman was showing how he set
everything up. And during the setup process, he
clicked yes on something.

(24:42):
Who knows what he just clicked?
So this is something that Toyota claims
new customers have opted in on,
and, people are saying, no. We have not.
Hey. This is an interesting
the ID Buzz VW
has been recalled
and appears to have made automotive history. Well,
what it boils down to

(25:05):
is one of the seats has too much
room.
The back seat has only got two seat
belts, but apparently there's enough room for three.
So they're all the vehicles are being recalled,
and they're gonna have to put bumpers
in the seats to make it
uncomfortable,

(25:27):
and not able to seat three anymore.
They're not gonna have to add
a seat belt,
which is pretty hard to do considering,
but they're gonna have to make it so
the seat cannot seat three people.
That's,
simply amazing.
Really, really. Does anyone own one of these

(25:49):
vehicles?
I'd love to see the before and after
picture of this.
Of course, you can send me email [e-mail]
or follow me and and message me on
Twitter or at x@geeknewsat
at any time.
So,
definitely,
fire me a note if this is you.

(26:09):
IStorage has launched, yes, a 26
terabyte
hardware encrypted desktop hard drive,
government grade security,
and a massive storage
capacity.
That's
amazing.
Offers a hundred and offers,
FIPS a 40 dash three security

(26:30):
and common criteria certified microprocessor
aimed at businesses, governments, and users needing top
tier
offline data protection.
You unlock it with a PIN number,
for 26 terabytes.
It's priced at $1,814.

(26:50):
So there's two models. The second one comes
in at 1,500.
A lot of money for security, but,
I understand the need sometimes. I really, really
do.
I was when I was traveling back and
forth,
be
between, Hawaii and Waco,
I was clearing,

(27:12):
unclassified
but I would call them sensitive
data
on a hard drive. And that hard drive
was encrypted. It uses the fingerprint
to unlock.
It was part of my that was my
even though the data was unclassified,
there was,
enough of it on

(27:34):
the drive
that if it people had all that information
together, it would, you know, basically additional sensitivity.
So, again, I could only travel with a
drive that, had a fingerprint
and it was a pain in the butt
to get that from the government.
It was total pain because it's just something

(27:55):
that wasn't done
very often.
Hey. A major DJI Osmo three sixty leak
has included dozen images of the three sixty
camera,
and it's a manual.
So,
you can see the inside and the outside
of the camera.
The launch of the die device is in
doubt. Now why would the launch of the

(28:17):
device
be in doubt?
So the the three sixty apparently arrived at
the FCC back in October.
So this has been a long time coming,
and
Tipster suggests we may not actually see the

(28:39):
Osmo three sixty after all. He pounds he
points to a lack of retailer leaks
and ongoing uncertainty over tariffs. So okay. Well,
we'll we'll see. But the rest of the
country,
the rest of the world buys
DGI gear.
TeleMessage,
which I'm not familiar with, it's a signal

(29:00):
s q
basically, it's a spin off app.
Hackers have claimed to have stolen,
have broken into the message service and stolen
data.
TeleMessage is a clone of signal,
a popular privacy oriented chat app used
by some government officials

(29:23):
and,
apparently, it's been hacked. Some of the messages
have been hacked.
So
so far, all parties included TeleMessage and the
US government have not commented
on the news.
A signal spokesman told Reuters that the company
cannot guarantee the privacy

(29:45):
or security properties of unofficial versions
of signal. So, oh, so it was a
it was a it was a branch.
Isn't that interesting?
So not even the real deal.
Yeah. Be careful
of,
grabbing those.
Next gen photo
photos are incoming as Samsung reportedly begins mass

(30:07):
production of a Galaxy
z flip seven and fold seven.
The company is just weeks away from the
official launch of the 25 Edge
removed rumored to be revealed on the May
13,
and
this will include an event
for its folding devices.

(30:27):
Or maybe it was only gonna No. The
folding devices are expected coming the at the
end of summer.
So,
again, lots of rumors here. We'll see.
WordPress sites, as always, have been targeted by
malicious plugin disguised as a security tool. The
name of it alone would made me have
been, like,

(30:57):
Apparently, it was,
infected.
And, you know, I thought WordPress had been
pretty good about
keeping these types of,
infected apps off the repository.
I don't understand
why this has still happened.
So it it did compromise sites. So if

(31:20):
you've been using this plug in,
your site is more than likely,
compromised.
An amazing story here, Mozilla Firefox could be
collateral damage in the Google antitrust
battle.
This
this blows me away.
The search giant pays Mozilla substantial fees remained

(31:40):
in default search engine in Firefox,
creating a revenue stream that Mozilla argues is
essential to its survival.
Court documents and testimony shows that in 2023,
Mozilla generated 495,000,000
from such licensings
out of 653,000,000
in total revenue.

(32:00):
Losing that revenue all at once would would
mean Mozilla would have to make significant cuts
across the company.
Wow.
Wow.
That's that's amazing
that Firefox is that dependent upon
Google for its survival.

(32:24):
Those of you using Firefox, would you be
willing to pay?
Microsoft has fixed a bug in Windows 10
that broke part of the start menu and
the reason why this happens is likely to
annoy you. The error was caused by Microsoft
account related
nudging
that
apparently to this article nobody wants

(32:45):
by being back ported from Windows 11. So
anyway, I'm I'm this is the one I'm
I don't understand. I don't,
I don't know how this actually happens, but
something about right clicking on the start menu.
But, anyway,
those of you had an issue,
I'll link up the show notes to to

(33:06):
review.
A man that admitted hacking Disney leaking data
disguised as a hacktivist,
has pled again, plead guilty.
According to DOJ, Ryan Mitchell Kramer pled guilty
to accessing a computer and taking information threatening
damage to a protected computer as well as
two felony charges that each carry presence a

(33:27):
prison sentence up to five years.
So
he's pled guilty.
When is he going to be sentenced?
Does it say?
This guy claimed to be a hacktivist group
protecting artist rights,
but he wasn't. He was just one individual.

(33:52):
No no
information
on,
what he's gonna get in time. If he's
pled guilty, maybe he's part of a plea
deal. Who knows? And I think we reported
this on the last show, so be it
pro orbiting Earth since 1972.
We'll soon reenter
the atmosphere.
It's cosmos four eighty two.

(34:15):
And,
yeah, maybe today or tomorrow.
So,
oh, n p this is a NPR article,
and they just did a pop up. What
was that pop up? Let me refresh the
page and see if I can get that
again.

(34:35):
Let me see if it'll if it'll show
it to me. There's something about
something under threat. Yeah. NPR and others are
under threat from their government funding, but I
agree.
Very rarely do I cover anything that's been
written by NPR.
The president
promising protection for TikTok
from which he says has a warm spot

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in my heart.
There's a deadline of of what is it?
June
let me look here. He says there's a
bunch of people trying to buy it.
June 19 is the deadline.
So we'll
see,

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where this moves.
But he says he's gonna protect TikTok. Does
that mean another extension? I don't know.
SpaceX
Texas
HQ Starbase officially on its way to becoming
a city, and,
they want a specific
ZIP code too, which is kind of,

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ironic and it's it follows the 420 line.
The question is,
do they make SpaceX employees take the wiz
quiz,
or can SpaceX
employees,
partake in the,
in the herbal herb?
Are they allowed to, or do they
you know, if you live in a town

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that has a four twenty as part of
its
ZIP code,
you would wonder if,
if they enforce,
you know, drug testing at SpaceX.
Good question.
Does anybody know? I would assume because they
got government contracts, they have to.
Can any SpaceX

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employee
or anyone that's familiar SpaceX let me know
if their SpaceX employees are allowed to smoke
weed or not. I I would truly would
like to know.
TikTok TikTok has been supplying $600,000,000
over Europe's fears of China surveilling people's data.
So, of course, the EU
wants,
wants some money,

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and, they gotta refill their tech, Ott,
you know, their their their money they're using.
So they need to get a $600,000,000
fine against TikTok
for,
for EU breakage of a rule.
So, not surprising there that,
the EU is once again going over,

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going after big companies money even though TikTok's
probably guilty of it.
So, fun fun fun.
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way
through the show with no camera disconnecting,
no audio disconnecting.
How
it's just like nothing has changed.
I didn't touch nothing,
yet we made it to the end.
I'm happy.
I'm sure those of you watching the show
are happy.

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But, everyone, thanks for being here and, I'll
see you on Thursday
for another edition of the Geekness Central podcast.
Take care. Bye bye.