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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-14 00:56:21

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance 6 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals. It co

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:36:03

The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU's top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and "self-preferencing" practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest in the adtech market. Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, told BleepingComputer that t

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Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-14 00:51:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The European Commission has waged a €2.95 billion (~$3.5 billion) fine against Google for “abusing its dominant position” in advertising technology. In its announcement, the Commission claims that Google’s alleged anticompetitive practices have increased costs f

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Max severity Argo CD API flaw leaks repository credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 04:30:18

An Argo CD vulnerability allows API tokens with even low project-level get permissions to access API endpoints and retrieve all repository credentials associated with the project. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-55190, is rated with the maximum severity score of 10.0 in CVSS v3, and allows bypassing isolation mechanisms used to protect sensitive credential information. Attackers holding those credentials could then use them to clone private codebases, inject malicious manifests, attempt downs

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Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-16 12:33:28

Canada’s first-ever Moon rover is going to hitch a ride aboard private space company’s Firefly Aerospace’s fourth Blue Ghost mission to our celestial satellite. The news comes after NASA awarded Firefly $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface. The Texas-based company pulled-off its first Moon landing on March 2, delivering payloads for NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative (CLPS). Firefly is set to launch its

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Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 08:45:49

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter can resume her work as a commissioner for the FTC, a federal appeals court has ruled. Slaughter, who was one of the two Democratic commissioners for the FTC that President Trump fired back in March, filed a lawsuit for her reinstatement. "Your continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my administration’s priorities," a letter to the commissioners said. In July, US District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal e

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EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-20 08:00:58

The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials had planned to announce the antitrust sanction on Monday; however, that deadline came and went without an announcement. The Commission h

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China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

wired.com Lorenzo Lamperti 2025-10-24 08:30:00

China is preparing for one of the most anticipated and politically charged military events in recent years. On September 3, in Tiananmen Square, China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II with a spectacular military parade that is not only a ritual of historical remembrance but also a message to the entire world to be prepared for the war of the future. President Xi Jinping and several foreign leaders and officials, including Vladimir Putin, will attend

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 05:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 10:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-27 04:14:21

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms. The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substanti

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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 08:03:01

I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us. Mississippi residents,

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Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-10-30 19:44:37

Following a string of unsuccessful flights, SpaceX managed to pull off its most successful test in months, with Starship fulfilling a number of key milestones. It was a good day for SpaceX. The megarocket blasted off on time, leaving the Starbase launch mount at 7:30 p.m. ET. Stage separation went off without a hitch, with the Super Heavy booster landing in the ocean as planned nearly 7 minutes into the mission. Second engine cutoff (SECO) occurred a few minutes later, and Starship began to cru

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Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-01 03:35:27

Two years ago, Apple announced its Watch Series 9 as its first carbon-neutral product. From cradle to grave, the company said the manufacturing, use, and disposal of the then-new model didn’t contribute to global warming. Now, a German court says that Apple has to recant the claim. Each aluminum Apple Watch Series 9 and Series 10 — two models with the carbon-neutral designation — generates just over 8 kilograms of carbon emissions. Apple then offsets those emissions through the purchase of car

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Crypto Bros’ ‘Startup Nation’ Wants to Plant a Flag on an Asteroid

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-01 15:10:00

The “Network State” movement, described by its detractors as a “cult,” is an ideological movement that seeks to create privately owned, anarcho-capitalist, “autonomous” communities. One such community, the Republic of Liberland, recently made two announcements that its denizens seem to think are quite exciting: 1) Liberland has a new “prime minister” in the form of crypto billionaire Justin Sun, and 2) the bold explorers of Liberland plan to express their collective spirit of adventure by planti

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Two smart ring brands will no longer be available to US shoppers (Update: Statement)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 16:42:37

Ultrahuman also tells Android Authority that it is fast-tracking a newly designed smart ring. You can read the full statement below: We welcome the ITC’s recognition of consumer-protective exemptions and its rejection of attempts to block the access of U.S. consumers. Customers can continue purchasing and importing Ring AIR directly from us through October 21, 2025, and at retailers beyond this date. What’s more, our software application and charging accessories remain fully available, after t

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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-02 23:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 10:30:49

Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. In the UK, it's only required

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Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-11-04 09:00:31

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

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Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

news.ycombinator.com Chris Wright 2025-10-31 00:35:49

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning. For decades, ship emissions steadil

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-04 10:51:27

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:00:10

Keeping children safe online is a core priority for Bluesky. We’ve invested a lot of time and resources building moderation tools and other infrastructure to protect the youngest members of our community. We’re also aware of the tradeoffs that come with managing an online platform. Our mission is to build an open and decentralized protocol for public conversation, and we believe in empowering users with more choices and control over their experience. We work with regulators around the world on c

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-04 22:16:54

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-11-05 03:09:14

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Bluesky will block access from Mississippi IP addresses in response to a new state law requiring age verification and parental consent for underage users. The decision, outlined in a blog post, will stand until courts decide the fate of the law. “Mississippi’s approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” says the

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-10 03:00:00

And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4 billion metric tons by 2060. This chart is what really strikes me and makes the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks such a disappointment. Recycling is a great tool, and new methods could make it possible to recycle more plastics and make it easier

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‘Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ Is Now Free on YouTube… Kind of

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-10 22:00:05

The eighth and possibly final Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is now available on digital download. It comes with tons of special features and can be yours wherever you legally download movies for just $20. But, if you don’t want to pay $20, it’s also on YouTube for free. In a way. In what appears to be a fun, original way to promote the film’s digital release, Paramount has uploaded the entire film to YouTube… in Morse code. It’s right now, at the time of publication, Wednesday

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Scientists Find Evidence That You're a Hypocrite Who's Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:08:00

When it comes to personal contributions to climate change, most Americans seem to have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be. Folks who happily recycle and switch to more energy-efficient appliances, per a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus journal, likely have a far larger carbon footprint than they realize. When it comes to personal behavioral changes to mitigate climate change, not all interventions are created equal. A

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This Newly Launched Satellite Just ‘Bloomed’ a Record-Breaking Antenna in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-17 12:55:42

A first-of-its-kind satellite recently launched into orbit to monitor Earth’s changing surfaces, detecting movement of the planet’s crust down to fractions of an inch. The satellite packed a giant radar antenna, folded like an umbrella, and it just unfurled the massive, drum-shaped structure through an intricate process that brought it to full bloom. The NISAR mission, a joint effort between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, launched on July 30 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. Mor

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Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s

news.ycombinator.com Sheldon D. 2025-11-16 15:37:20

Back in the 1970s (and before), parents didn’t stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn’t worry obsessively about it. It’s a far guess to say that some of the kids seen bike jumping and being bike jumped (which is the more dangerous?) are parents now – which means that they survived and can recall how less restricted, less supervised, less obsessively safety-conscious things were – and it was fine. Bike jumping and jumping over

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The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 21:14:05

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country. Today, the top court chose not to intervene on legislation from Mississippi about checking the ages of social media users, denying an application to vacate stay from NetChoice. The Mississippi law requires all users to verify their ages in order to use social media sites. It also places responsibility on the social networks to prevent children from acce

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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

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Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s

The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

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