Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini this year? Perplexity AI is showing some real numbers in its effort to unseat Google Search. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

Links:

Apple announces new fee structure for apps in the EU that link out to the web for purchases (9to5Mac)
Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’ (TechCrunch)
Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (Financial Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Why are so many car YouTubers quitting? (The Verge)
Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (Politico Magazine)

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