Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, March 6, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Apple shows how it is complying with the DMA. We've got a Microsoft Hardware event coming up. I wonder if they'll mention

AI. Has Black Cat been defeated or is this just a clever ruse to rebrand and reorganize? And Open AI has clapped back at Elon's lawsuit.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

In time for DMA Day, Apple has released iOS 17.4 with new default browser

prompts in the European Union, support for a third-party browser engines, transcripts for

podcast, 118 new emojies and more, quoting Mac stories. If you live in the

EU, the first change you are going to notice is after updating to iOS 17.4 is a new

about your default browser screen that will appear the first time you open Safari, prompting

you to pick a new default browser.

While it was already possible to set an alternative default browser

on iOS, the DMA, now requires Apple to prompt all of its EU users to actively make this choice.

This screen includes a small explainer that lets you know about your ability

to choose a different default browser at any time. After you tap continue, you will be presented

with a list of alternative browsers. If you tap a browser in the list you'll be presented with its

App Store listing and we'll be able to install it with a single tap. If you tap not

now at the bottom of the screen on the other hand you will keep using safari as

your default web browser. While it is impossible to on the settings at any time, as usual.

For each EU member country, the list of alternative browsers contains the 12 most popular

browsers from its App Store storefront and is displayed to the user in a random order.

Third-party browser engine support in iOS17.4 effectively means that browser makers are now allowed to

launch a version of their web browser that does not run on Apple's Web Kit engine and runs on their own browser engine instead.

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