Fri. 05/16 – Bribing Is The Oldest Form Of Hacking
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Epic Games and Apple are still having beef over app store rejections. Coinbase got hacked with the oldest attack vector there is: bribery. Meta’s having problems with its behemoth AI model. New Windsurf coding suite. New Apple Car Play. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple blocks Fortnite’s App Store return as downloads fail in Europe (The Verge)
- Coinbase warns of up to $400 million hit from cyberattack (Reuters)
- Coinbase Hack Rocks Company That Led Crypto Into Mainstream (Bloomberg)
- Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model (WSJ)
- Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models (TechCrunch)
- Next-gen CarPlay, branded CarPlay Ultra, starts rolling out today (9to5Mac)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- I let lasers power my smart home — and I don’t want to go back (The Verge)
- The Popular Alternative - The State of A24 (Dirt)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme Right Home for Friday, May 16th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:08.8 | Epic Games and Apple are still having beef over App Store rejections. Coinbase got hacked with the oldest attack vector there is, bribery. |
| 0:18.3 | Meta's having problems with its behemoth AI model, new windsurf coding suite, |
| 0:22.3 | new Apple CarPlay, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today |
| 0:26.8 | in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.6 | Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the U.S. App Store, and the game on |
| 0:39.7 | iOS will be offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it, according to Epic, quoting the verge. |
| 0:47.3 | Following the rejection, Fortnite is no longer available on iPhones and iPads, even in the |
| 0:51.8 | European Union, where it had previously been available to download |
| 0:55.1 | through the Epic Game Store. Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the |
| 1:00.3 | U.S. App Store or to the Epic Game Store for iOS in the European Union, the company posted on the |
| 1:05.0 | official Fortnite X account. Now, sadly, Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it, end quote. |
| 1:12.5 | The Verge has confirmed that the game is no longer available to download on iOS from the Epic |
| 1:17.3 | Game Store or the alternative marketplace alt store pal in the EU, where it had previously |
| 1:23.4 | been available. It's not yet clear if Apple blocked the game's availability through those stores |
| 1:28.5 | or if Epic itself chose to make it unavailable. We've reached out to both Apple and Epic for comment. |
| 1:34.5 | Fortnite returned to iOS in the EU last year, but only through those two storefronts and not Apple's |
| 1:40.3 | app store. The return was made possible by the EU's Digital Markets Act, which required Apple |
| 1:45.2 | to allow third-party app stores on iOS. Epic had resubmitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store this |
| 1:51.9 | month following a recent ruling in Epic's lawsuit against Apple. That ruling prohibited Apple from |
| 1:56.8 | restricting developers' ability to link to external payment systems, one of the issues |
| 2:01.4 | that had started their long-running legal battle. Epic was forced to use its EU developer account |
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