Vibecoded apps are flooding Appleβs App Store, and users are getting sick of them



This week, San Franciscoβs attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported.
Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change a personβs features, place them in sexualized positions, and swap victimsβ faces onto other peopleβs naked bodies.
Chiu's letter warned that app stores were violating "Californiaβs laws that prohibitΒ supporting servicesΒ that create deepfake pornography," Wired reported.


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Apple lost its EU court challenge over iOS and the App Store, keeping both under the Digital Markets Act as another legal challenge still remains possible.
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Apple lost its EU court challenge over iOS and the App Store, keeping both under the Digital Markets Act as another legal challenge still remains possible.
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Apple is restoring card payments for users in India after updating its systems to comply with RBI tokenization rules.
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Apple is restoring card payments for users in India after updating its systems to comply with RBI tokenization rules.
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Apple is hoping the Supreme Court will reverse a contempt finding that threatens to block the tech giant from charging high commission fees when developers divert iPhone users to non-Apple payment methods for app purchases.
The contempt finding came in a case where Epic Games accused Apple of violating a judicial order requiring changes to its App Store, which charged a 30 percent commission for using Apple payment methods and did not allow developer links to alternative payment methods.
That order required Apple to allow developers to include links to make payments outside the Apple ecosystem, but Apple did so only after requiring a 27 percent commission for allowing the link-outs. In December, Apple lost an appeal after defending its commission as reasonable. At that time, the 9th Circuit concluded that Apple violated the spirit of the order by charging fees so high that they βhad a prohibitive effectβ on developers who saw little benefit in updating apps to save only a small amount on fees.


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