Apple expands the pricing options for subscription app developers by 700 price points, from $0.29 to $10K, the top 100 of which are available only upon request (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won’t get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via a collective bargaining arrangement  —  Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Windows Subsystem for Linux is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 via the Microsoft Store, as Microsoft makes the Store version of WSL the default  —  Microsoft announced today that the Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is generally available for Windows 10 and 11 customers.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades  —  Apple Inc.’s top executives in charge of its online retail store and information-systems divisions are stepping down …

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them  —  Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places …

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Sen. Wyden reveals CBP told Congress it is adding data from ~10K travelers’ devices per year to a database, accessible to 2,700 officers without a warrant  —  Contacts, call logs, messages and photos from up to 10,000 travelers’ phones are saved to a government database every year

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple’s new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that let users buy “boosts” for social media posts must use IAPs for these transactions  —  With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.