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Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU's DMA
techcrunch.com Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU's DMA | TechCrunch

What's the collective noun for investigations on Big Tech? Because the European Union has just announced a pile of probes on gatekeepers designated under Alphabet/Google, Apple and Meta are facing the first formal non-compliance investigations under the EU's rebooted ex ante competition rulebook.

Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU's DMA | TechCrunch
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Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry
www.abc.net.au Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be

Facebook profited from the decline of Australia's news organisations, but enforcing the News Media Bargaining Code will make a bad situation worse without solving the problem of who will pay for the news.

Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be
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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
www.theguardian.com Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton
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Usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0!
mastodon.world Signal (@signalapp@mastodon.world)

Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇 https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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gizmodo.com Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover

In Brazil, Burger King says it's doling out "Hangover Whoppers," using facial recognition to determine whether you had too much to drink last night.

Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover
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linuxiac.com OpenWrt One: OpenWrt's First In-House Hardware Design

OpenWrt One/AP-24 unveiled in celebration of OpenWrt's 20th year, offering an upstream-supported hardware solution.

OpenWrt One: OpenWrt's First In-House Hardware Design
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gizmodo.com Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications

In response to an Oregon Senator’s letter, Apple added a hurdle for law enforcement to access your metadata.

Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications
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arstechnica.com Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data

Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
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arstechnica.com Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating

Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates.

Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating
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www.newscientist.com Bonobos are friendly with those outside their group – unlike chimps

The convivial nature of bonobos is in stark contrast to chimpanzees and may shed light on the evolutionary origins of cooperation in humans

Bonobos are friendly with those outside their group – unlike chimps
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SEPA and iDEAL based donations for Europe
community.signalusers.org Beta feedback for the upcoming Android 6.41 release

To our European testers, we’ve enable SEPA for 6.41.x a little while ago, after a remote configuration refresh for your device you should start seeing it for supported country codes + Euro currency. iDEAL will hopefully be enabled shortly, waiting on our provider for a few things to flip on.

Beta feedback for the upcoming Android 6.41 release
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Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
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    We'd love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we're partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we're honestly super flexible on implementation. We'd essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.

    So wtf does this mean? Is Dark Reader hammered as of 2021?

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