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Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple is warning developers that some of their apps may not be able to call the App Store home forever. In its newly refreshed App Review Guidelines released this week, the tech giant said it may begin removing apps in certain well-established categories if they’re not “updated, improved, or attracting customers.” This marks a significant shift on Apple’s part, which earlier used to simply reject copycat apps or those in saturated categories.

Previously, Apple’s guidelines had cautioned developers not to pile on in categories that already had plenty of apps. The line, somewhat hilariously, had read: “The App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience.”

The updated text, released alongside Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), warns developers against “opportunistically creating variants of existing app categories or popular apps.”...

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I spent a month with the ModRetro M64 — and I think there’s no better way to play your classic Nintendo 64 games

This hands-on preview is based on a pre-production M64 unit. Hardware and software are not final. Let’s start with a confession: I grew up in the 90s playing games on a PS1. Pretty much all of my experiences with the Nintendo 64 were at a friend’s house, watching

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Microsoft Patches 200 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates fix roughly 200 vulnerabilities discovered in the company’s products. None of the flaws addressed this month appears to have been exploited in the wild, but three issues were publicly disclosed before Microsoft patched them. One of them is CVE-2026-49160, described as a

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Nintendo is playing things too safe

Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct showcase felt like an important moment for the company. With the Switch 2 heading into its second holiday season, one in which the hardware will be even more expensive thanks to a price hike, it was a chance for Nintendo to really sell new audiences on

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Should I use a VPN to watch the World Cup?

The cult of the individual means that the Golden Ball is almost as big as the World Cup itself these days, and with Lamine Yamal and Erling Haaland now on the scene – and more than capable of eclipsing Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar – this summer's

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I spent a month with the ModRetro M64 &mdash; and I think there&rsquo;s no better way to play your classic Nintendo 64 games

Microsoft Patches 200 Vulnerabilities

Nintendo is playing things too safe

Should I use a VPN to watch the World Cup?

I spent a month with the ModRetro M64 — and I think there’s no better way to play your classic Nintendo 64 games