EU says Apple’s 30% cut from rival music providers violates competition law
EU sides with Spotify, blasts Apple's 30% App Store cut and anti-steering rules.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
Uber, Lyft stocks plunge after Biden official says drivers are employees
Uber and Lyft argue treating drivers as employees would wreck their business.
FCC reveals sign-up date and website for $50-per-month broadband subsidies
May 12 enrollment for people who have low incomes or lost income during pandemic.
Conspiracy theorist said death threats were “jokes”—but jury didn’t buy it
Brendan Hunt posted videos about murdering US elected officials.
Algorithms were under fire at a Senate hearing on social media
"Algorithms have great potential for good. They can also be misused."
SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure?
Cost overruns, other issues prompt Air Force to look for "clean sheet" fighter.
Ransomware crooks threaten to ID informants if cops don’t pay up
The FBI is investigating claim hackers obtained 250GB of police department data.
SEC halts trading of iced tea company that pivoted to blockchain
The company's blockchain business "never became operational," SEC says.
Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight
Google has blasted "link tax" proposals as antithetical to the open Web.
AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif. regulator finds
AT&T raised phone prices 153% over a decade as service got steadily worse.
Software bugs reportedly keep Arizona inmates jailed past release dates
State law was updated in 2019, but the state's software suite still hasn't been.
After Saturday’s engine failure, Boeing says many 777s should be grounded
Many of the engine components fell over populated areas.
Bitcoin’s value just passed $1 trillion
Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto may have mined 1M bitcoins worth $55 billion.
Comcast reluctantly drops data-cap enforcement in 12 states for rest of 2021
ISP grants reprieve in Northeast but still caps users in most of its US territory.
UK Supreme Court says Uber drivers are not independent contractors
Uber's "gig economy" business model is under attack around the world.
