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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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Meta adds interoperability with Signal's tech
www.pcmag.com Meta Adds Interoperability With Signal's Tech for WhatsApp, Messenger in EU

Meta turns on third-party interoperability for Messenger and WhatsApp users to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), but only in Europe and if Signal's protocol is used.

Meta Adds Interoperability With Signal's Tech for WhatsApp, Messenger in EU
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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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Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta
techcrunch.com Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta | TechCrunch

In today's online safety hearing, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg again pushed back at the idea that businesses like his should be responsible for managing

Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta | TechCrunch
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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover
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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OpenWrt One: OpenWrt's First In-House Hardware Design
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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Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications
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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Bonobos are friendly with those outside their group – unlike chimps
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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Why do most people choose to use WhatsApp over telegram??
  • WhatsApp gives me:

    1,2,3 - closed source app that has not been audited but you chose to believe that is backdoor free, ok then

    4 - half true, whatsapp business is full of automated responses, not too many human beings there

  • Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
  • 1/25/2021

    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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