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'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost livelihoods
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Online businesses have been left considering layoffs and even site closures after Google's massive upgrade in March and April caused catastrophic drops in traff...
Meta risks fines over 'pay for privacy' model breaking EU rules
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
The charges against the US tech titan follow a finding last week against Apple that marked the first time Brussels had levelled formal accusations under the EU'...
US top court sidesteps ruling on contentious social media laws
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
Tech industry trade groups, which welcomed the decision, had challenged the laws passed in 2021 by Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas as part of a broade...
EU questions Shein, Temu over consumer protection
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The query was made under the EU's breakthrough law known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) that forces platforms to do more to tackle the sale of illegal and ha...
Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
ICQ -- styled to sound like "I seek you" -- was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in t...
EU accuses Apple of breaking bloc's digital rules
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
The European Commission informed Apple in a "preliminary view" that the "App Store rules... prevent app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative...
Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe's fight with Big Tech
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
It is the latest in a years-long battle between Brussels and giant tech firms, covering subjects from data privacy to disinformation. - Stifling competition - B...
Apple delays rollout of AI features in Europe
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
Citing the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), a spokesperson for the iPhone-making juggernaut said "we do not believe that we will be able to roll out ...
US billionaire eyes TikTok takeover to save internet from Big Tech
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
In the United States, McCourt is best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, while in Europe he is the current proprietor of storie...
Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer at the Netherlands-based travel giant, said generative AI had sparked an explosion in online phishing scams, ...
Meta pauses AI plans in Europe after privacy complaints
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
Last week, a Vienna-based privacy campaign group filed complaints in 11 European countries against Meta, saying the global tech giant's planned privacy policy c...
Former Twitter, now X, makes 'likes' private
Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)
With the change, which includes the removal of the "Likes" tab on a profile page, users will no longer be able to track the likes of other users to figure out t...
Japan enacts law ensuring access to third-party apps
Jun 12, 2024 (AFP)
Similar to the European Union's new Digital Markets Act, the law mandates that they act fairly and make operating systems, browsers and search engines available...
Apple partners with OpenAI as it unveils 'Apple Intelligence'
Jun 10, 2024 (AFP)
For months, pressure has been on Apple to persuade doubters on its AI strategy, after Microsoft and Google rolled out products in rapid-fire succession. But thi...
Apple faces pressure to deliver on AI at developer conference
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
AI and perhaps even a partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will likely be a driving theme at the Monday kickoff of Apple's annual WWDC developers' conference i...
Italy fines Meta over data use, account transparency
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
The AGCM watchdog said the fine was for "unfair commercial practices". "Meta failed... to immediately inform users registered to Instagram via the web of the us...
Microsoft faces Austrian privacy complaints over education software
Jun 04, 2024 (AFP)
Youths across Europe are exposed to the alleged violations, according to Vienna-based European Center for Digital Rights, also known as Noyb ("None of Your Busi...
X formally allows X-rated content on platform
Jun 03, 2024 (AFP)
Adult content and nudity has been present on Twitter for years and -- unlike Facebook or Instagram -- was never explicitly banned even before Musk's takeover in...
Chinese shopping app Temu faces stricter EU safety rules
May 31, 2024 (AFP)
Temu is one of the fastest-growing apps in Europe despite only entering the EU market in April 2023, and has already faced fierce scrutiny from consumer groups ...
Iran iPhone users signal dismay over new models ban
May 30, 2024 (AFP)
He bought his new device abroad shortly after the Islamic republic banned 14 and 15 series iPhones in February 2023, hoping that the restrictions would eventual...
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