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Slashdot- Apple Fined $162 Million for App Privacy System That Harms Developers March 31, 2025France's competition authority has fined Apple 150 million euros ($162.4 million) for abusing its market dominance through its App Tracking Transparency system, ruling the privacy initiative unfairly disadvantages app developers. The watchdog determined that requiring third-party developers to use two pop-ups for tracking permissions while Apple's own apps need just one tap creates an "excessively […]
- Microsoft is Redesigning the Windows BSOD And It Might Change To Black March 31, 2025Microsoft has announced that it's overhauling its Blue Screen of Death error message in Windows 11. From a report: The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified screen that looks a lot more like the black screen you see when Windows is performing an update. […]
- FBI Raids Home of Prominent Computer Scientist Who Has Gone Incommunicado March 31, 2025An anonymous reader shares a report: A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang […]
- California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles March 31, 2025California has 11.3% of America's population — but bought 30% of America's new zero-emission vehicles. That's according to figures from the California Air Resources Board, which also reports 1 in 4 Californians have chosen a zero-emission car over a gas-powered one... for the last two years in a row. But what about chargers? It turns […]
- HTTPS Certificate Industry Adopts New Security Requirements March 31, 2025The Certification Authority/Browser Forum "is a cross-industry group that works together to develop minimum requirements for TLS certificates," writes Google's Security blog. And earlier this month two proposals from Google's forward-looking roadmap "became required practices in the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements," improving the security and agility of TLS connections... Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration Before issuing a […]
- Apple Fined $162 Million for App Privacy System That Harms Developers March 31, 2025
- Ars Technica
- Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs March 31, 2025“It’s whatever amount is enough to stay off the naughty list,” says ad executive.
- Trump on car tariffs: “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices” March 31, 2025Consumers will have to pay the price of the president's unnecessary trade war.
- Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs March 31, 2025Lawsuits and allegations are creating doubt around quantum dot TVs' use of QDs.
- FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado March 30, 2025Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
- NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars March 30, 2025It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life.
- Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs March 31, 2025
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