A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification la...
Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals
https://deadline.com/... … See also Mediagazer
Tech trade groups CTA and CCIA back Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, fearing big settlements could chill AI investment
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Their argument is apparently that that the legality of their business model should not be questioned because AI is too important. Lili Saintcrow /...
US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to try to break Apple's and Google's app store dominance; the 2021 version never came up for a vote
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan “Open App Markets Act” …
New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature
New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios …
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech
The move, which the agency says will spur innovation, had been opposed by the NAB for its potential impact on newsgathering
The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model
Apple fans: “The EU must approve of Apple's plans, otherwise Apple wouldn't have announced them” — The EU: “Hang on a minute...” https://www.theverge.com/... Jan Penfrat / @ilumi...
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay
Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit fr...
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would help news outlets jointly negotiate with tech companies
Tech industry groups representing Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment
arguing that a Texas law banning “censorship” of viewpoints is unconstitutional. https://www.politico.com/... @netchoice : NEW: Today, NetChoice and co-plaintiff @ccianet asked the...
A US appeals court rules 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law stopping Twitter, Facebook, and other services with 50M+ users from moderating content
A judge blocked a similar law in Florida on First Amendment grounds — The controversial Texas social media law HB 20 …
Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack
Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack
Google has always been committed to providing high-quality and relevant information, and to supporting the news publishers who help create it.
In House hearing, Brad Smith says monetizing referral traffic has become increasingly difficult for news pubs because Google squeezes out most of the profit
$MSFT's @BradSmi today https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... @kerrymflynn : Microsoft's @BradSmi's quotes a Florida resident who lives in a place without a local newspaper: “After years...