Tech’s biggest story today is the growing pressure on the app store gatekeepers. In the U.S., the Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal in its long-running Epic Games fight, revisiting whether Apple defied a court order meant to let developers steer users to alternative payments. At the same time, Britain’s competition regulator is moving in a similar direction, proposing to loosen both Apple’s and Google’s restrictions on off-platform payments and possibly even widen access to key technologies like NFC. Together, the moves suggest a broader global push to curb platform control over digital commerce. Elsewhere, the social costs of online platforms came into sharp focus as Australian MP Josh Burns told a royal commission that social media has become a major venue for antisemitic abuse. And in lighter hardware news, fresh leaks of Samsung’s next foldables offered an early glimpse of the company’s coming design and accessory play.