Apple’s iMessage has been at least temporarily spared from the Digital Markets Act, but the results of an EU investigation could have a seismic impact on how messaging works — potentially creating a new market for smaller third-party apps but also raising security concerns. Jon Porter explained how last year.
The embattled Trump-backed social network got an additional twelve months to complete its SPAC merger, extending a deadline that was originally set for Friday. That means the SPAC can hang onto $300 million in investor funds... although with Trump himself back on the platform formerly known as Twitter, its future still seems uncertain.
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I was going to ask if companies like Prada really gain much by storing certificates of authenticity (a concept that far predates the blockchain!) on a distributed ledger system rather than some basic, un-sexy centralized database. Then I learned there’s a much funnier issue here: you can’t even check the database yourself!
After several rounds of questioning, Aura Consortium’s and Prada’s press teams said I couldn’t yet certify the bag myself, but Prada Group could access the information through an NFC chip inserted in the item.
Oh, and as usual, nobody seems to know what “owning” something through a blockchain legally means.
Many people know the Internet Archive through the Wayback Machine, one of the most important web history repositories in existence. But its broader archival initiatives have left it facing legal challenges from the publishing and music industries. On today’s Vergecast I broke down the status of the suits and what they could mean for the future of digital preservation... and while we’re at it, what’s copyright really meant for, anyway?
