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Microsoft Will Lower Price of Office 365 Without Teams Platform, Avoiding EU Antitrust Fine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 02:45:00

Microsoft has agreed to sell Office 365 suites unbundled without Teams for a significantly lower price than previously, ending a five-plus-year European Union dispute with Slack and avoiding a fine by the EU. The software giant was charged with EU antitrust violations in June 2024 for bundling Teams with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The dispute began in July 2020, when Slack (now owned by Salesforce) filed an official complaint, alleging Microsoft was conducting an "illegal and a

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California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 07:33:47

California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider. The bill says that by January 1, a landlord must "allow the tenant to opt out of paying for any subscription from a third-party Internet service provider, such as through a bulk-billing arrangement, to provide service for wired Internet, cellular, or satellite service that is offered in connection with the tenancy." If a lan

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Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 11:03:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is partnering with Gigs, a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, to let companies integrate prepaid services into existing apps and platforms. Early adopters include fintech companies like Klarna and OnePay, which are adding mobile service to their financial apps. Unlike most prepaid brands, Gigs-powered services can openly advertise that they run on AT&T’s network. Carriers are increasingly making it easier for independent companies to launch their o

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DOJ Sues Uber Over Allegations of Refusing Service to Disabled Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 14:47:00

Uber is being sued for the second time in four years by the Department of Justice over complaints about its ridesharing service's treatment of customers with disabilities. According to the suit, a copy of which was posted online by the website TechCrunch, the company is alleged to "routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with service animals or who use stowable wheelchairs." The lawsuit also accuses Uber of imposing cleaning surcharges related

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Apple iPhone Air's China release delayed

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-01 18:56:06

Participants at the presentation of new iPhone models from Apple try out the new thinner iPhone Air. Apple has postponed the launch of its new iPhone Air model in China due to regulatory issues surrounding its eSIM design, the company said. Wireless carriers in China need a special license from the government before they can sell a new device with an eSIM, and the carriers haven't secured that approval yet, Apple said. The company added that it's working to make the device available in China a

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Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science fiction gadget: The universal translator

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-01 23:45:01

Apple AirPods Pro 3 models are displayed during Apple's "Awe-Dropping" event at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 9, 2025. Nic Coury | AFP | Getty Images For decades, shows like "Star Trek" and novels like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" have showcased fictional universal translators, capable of seamlessly converting any language into English and vice versa. Now, those gadgets once limited to works of science fiction are inching close to r

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Henry Cavill Injured While Prepping for ‘Highlander’ Reboot

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-01 22:12:55

Super Mario Bros. may head to space for a sequel, MJ and Ned return for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and James Gunn praises Milly Alcock’s Supergirl. Spoilers, away! Highlander According to Entertainment Weekly, Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Witcher) has been injured during pre-production of the new Highlander film, delaying the start of filming. Deadline reported that production is likely to resume in 2026, with the extent of Cavill’s injuries unknown. Avengers: Doomsday Promotional artwork on

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Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:02:39

Microsoft has avoided an EU fine after the US tech group offered concessions on how it packages together its Teams and Office products, ending a long-running antitrust investigation by the bloc’s regulators. The probe, which began after a 2020 complaint from Slack, now part of Salesforce, accused Microsoft of abusing its market dominance by tying its video conferencing tool to its widely used suite of productivity applications. Since the initial complaint, Microsoft has unbundled Teams from Of

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Samsung patches actively exploited zero-day reported by WhatsApp

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:48:30

Samsung has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks targeting its Android devices. Tracked as CVE-2025-21043, this critical security flaw affects Samsung devices running Android 13 or later and was reported by the security teams of Meta and WhatsApp on August 13. As Samsung explains in a recently updated advisory, this vulnerability was discovered in libimagecodec.quram.so (a closed-source image parsing library developed by Quramsoft that implements

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Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-02 13:46:50

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has avoided a fine from the European Commission after it was charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling its Teams app with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The European Commission says it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns rel

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Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage affecting users worldwide

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:43:00

Update September 11, 18:12 EDT: Revised story and title after Microsoft's confirmation that the outage has been mitigated. Microsoft says that it has mitigated an Exchange Online outage affecting customers worldwide, which blocked their access to emails and calendars. "We're investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method," the company said on Thursday morning. According

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iMazing 3 gives you full control of your iPhone, with a 20% discount

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-02 19:38:27

iMazing started life as a more powerful and flexible alternative to iTunes, but has since grown into a comprehensive desktop solution for managing Apple mobile devices across personal, educational, and professional contexts. Just in time for the iPhone 17, iMazing is offering readers a limited 20% discount on all licenses with the code: 9to5mac-20off. While the app was originally designed for consumers, the addition of new features in recent versions has attracted business and enterprise users

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GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 13:46:27

Matthai Hi, I am writing an article and I am sharing a draft with you. I will be glad if you share your thoughts and suggestions with me. GrapheneOS is an Android-based, open source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system for mobile phones. It is one of the most secure and privacy protecting operating systems (and yes, it does this task comparable and in some scenarios even better than iOS, but we will come to that later). However, in the beginning of May, someone started an at

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Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

news.ycombinator.com Kate Connolly 2025-09-29 15:33:26

Inhabitants of an apartment block in Bavaria, southern Germany, who called police to investigate the relentless buzzing of their doorbells late at night were surprised to find the culprit was not a teenage prankster as they had suspected, but a slug. The slug had been sliding up and down the bell plate, creating havoc in the building and tearing angry residents out of their beds long after midnight when they could not sleep for the noise. At first they had suspected the so-called klingelstreic

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Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-02 23:00:33

If you’re a movie prop replica collector, you know exactly which Beetlejuice sign we’re talking about. For years, as a Beetlejuice decor hunter, there has been one item I refused to buy on principle because it had one glaring mistake: it was not in-universe accurate. I’ve bought the Adam and Barbara monster face hanging decor, the inflatable Sandworm for my lawn, and the “Here Lies Betelgeuse” tombstone—but never the iconic light-up sign due to the fact that it always featured the ghost with th

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A Web Framework for Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 23:42:30

Free, open source, and always will be. Jetzig is MIT licensed.

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The DOJ sues Uber (again) for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 06:54:42

The US Department of Justice sued Uber on Thursday over disability discrimination… again. The lawsuit claims the company and its drivers "routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities." It specifically calls out its handling of passengers with service animals or stowable wheelchairs. The suit was filed in federal court in Northern California. "Despite the importance of its services to people with disabilities, Uber denies people with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of its servic

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Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 11:02:51

Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). CERT-FR is operated by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency, and is responsible for preventing and mitigating cybersecurity-related incidents impacting public and critical organizations. According to a Thursday advisory, CERT-FR is aware of at least four instances of Apple threat notifications alerting the company

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Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 04:14:20

In graph theory, an adjacency matrix is a square matrix used to represent a finite (and usually dense) graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or not, and in weighted graphs, they store the edge weights. In many beginner-level tutorials, adjacency matrices are implemented using vector of vectors (nested dynamic arrays), but this approach has inefficiencies due to multiple memory allocations. C++23 introduces std::mdspan , which provides a more efficient

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Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-03 15:36:47

A man holds up a smartphone with the Uber app visible on screen, as taxis queue in the background on June 4, 2019. The Department of Justice sued Uber on Thursday, alleging the ride-hailing giant discriminated against riders with disabilities, according to a filing. "Despite the importance of its services to people with disabilities, Uber denies people with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of its services in several critical ways," the complaint, filed in a federal court in San Francisco,

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Remastered Tomb Raider games allegedly used AI to change Lara Croft's French voice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 15:39:22

Françoise Cadol is the voice actor for Lara Croft in the French localizations of the Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered games. She has sent a legal notice to the games' publisher, Aspyr, alleging that a recent patch used artificial intelligence to alter her performance without her consent. The news was originally reported by French publication Le Parisien and picked up by Game Developer . According to August 2025 patch notes for the remastered game collection, Tomb Raider VI was updated with some adj

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This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 14:01:00

Apple is set to release iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and it will bring call screening and more to your iPhone then. But you don't need the latest iOS update to use Voice Isolation, an iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person you're talking with. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only Voice Isolation is available for regular phone calls at this time. When Vo

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Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-03 15:43:35

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Uber, accusing the ride-hailing company of violating federal law by discriminating against people with physical disabilities. In particular, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division claims that the company and its drivers “routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with service animals or who use stowable wheelchairs.” Uber is also accused of charging extra fees on riders who n

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Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 19:21:47

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believ

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GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 14:46:27

Matthai Hi, I am writing an article and I am sharing a draft with you. I will be glad if you share your thoughts and suggestions with me. GrapheneOS is an Android-based, open source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system for mobile phones. It is one of the most secure and privacy protecting operating systems (and yes, it does this task comparable and in some scenarios even better than iOS, but we will come to that later). However, in the beginning of May, someone started an at

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The iPhone 17 lineup arrived with higher price tags – are tariffs to blame?

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-03 23:03:31

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple just launched its iPhone 17 lineup. The smartphones were $100 higher than their predecessors. Analysts determine whether tariff fears played a factor. While people from around the globe tuned into Apple's launch event this week to catch a glimpse of the company's latest smartphones, eyes were also on the devices' prices. The iPhone 17 lineup marked Apple's first release since the Trump

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France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-04 03:32:05

In Brief Apple has notified a number of individuals that their devices were targeted in a spyware campaign, according to the French government. France’s national cybersecurity response unit said on Thursday that it was aware that Apple on September 3 sent a new notification to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The cybersecurity unit said receiving a threat notification means that at least one of the devices linked to a customer’s iCloud account “has been targeted an

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These Anker Soundcore earbuds with ANC are back on sale for $45

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 07:01:26

Our top pick for best budget wireless earbuds are back on sale for a record-low price. You can pick up the Anker Soundcore Space A40 wireless buds for only $45 right now, or 44 percent off their usual price. These buds include active noise cancellation (ANC), which is a rare feature at this price point. While not as sophisticated as the ANC you'll find on pricier earbuds from Sony, Bose and the like, it's still solid for a pair this affordable. It sufficiently reduces constant rumbling backgrou

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As Apple again extends free satellite messaging, I’m doubling down on my prediction

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-04 11:21:56

Apple’s satellite messaging service was a key feature of the iPhone 14. Initially limited to providing an emergency service for those outside cellular coverage areas, it was subsequently extended to offer roadside assistance cover for mechanical problems and messaging with family and friends too. Although initially described as free for the first two years only, Apple subsequently extended free coverage – and has just done so again … As Macworld notes, here are the latest free periods: iPhone

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CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 10:32:35

Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until 8:30 a.m. (ET) Thursday, September 11, 2025 USDL-25-1356 Technical information: (202) 691-7000 * [email protected] * www.bls.gov/cpi Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * [email protected] CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - AUGUST 2025 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after rising 0.2 percent in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last

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Latest Tech News

Microsoft Will Lower Price of Office 365 Without Teams Platform, Avoiding EU Antitrust Fine

California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

DOJ Sues Uber Over Allegations of Refusing Service to Disabled Customers

Apple iPhone Air's China release delayed

Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science fiction gadget: The universal translator

Henry Cavill Injured While Prepping for ‘Highlander’ Reboot

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Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage affecting users worldwide

iMazing 3 gives you full control of your iPhone, with a 20% discount

GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

A Web Framework for Zig

The DOJ sues Uber (again) for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks

Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23

Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

Remastered Tomb Raider games allegedly used AI to change Lara Croft's French voice

This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data (2024)

The iPhone 17 lineup arrived with higher price tags – are tariffs to blame?

France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks

These Anker Soundcore earbuds with ANC are back on sale for $45

As Apple again extends free satellite messaging, I’m doubling down on my prediction

CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up

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