IT総合 Apple revises DMA compliance for App Store link-outs, applying fewer restrictions and a new fee structure
Apple has further revised its compliance plan for the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) rulebook which, s...
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IT総合 IT総合 UK’s internet regulator warns social media platforms over risks of content inciting violence
The U.K.'s internet regulator Ofcom has published an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the us...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X taken to court in Ireland for grabbing EU user data to train Grok without consent
Elon Musk's X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans' data to train AI models without asking for their c...
IT総合 Breaking up Google would offer a chance to remodel the web
Just for a minute, as we digest the information that Google has been found to operate an illegal monopoly, can you imagi...
IT総合 TikTok Lite: EU closes addictive design case after TikTok commits to not bring back rewards mechanism
The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by acc...
IT総合 DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech
While both the DSA and DMA aim to achieve distinct things, they are best understood as a joint response to Big Tech's ma...
IT総合 The EU’s AI Act is now in force
The European Union's risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence has come into force starting from...
IT総合 Axle Energy’s sprint to decarbonize the grid lights up with $9M seed led by Accel
Axle Energy is a B2B, back-end infrastructure business focused on connecting flexible assets, such as electric vehicles ...
IT総合 Spain’s antitrust watchdog fines Booking.com nearly $450M for unfair terms and restricting rivals
The CNMC opened an investigation of Booking.com back in October 2022, following complaints by the Spanish Association of...
IT総合 EU calls for help with shaping rules for general purpose AIs
The EU has kicked off a consultation on rules that will apply to providers of general purpose AI models under the bloc's...
IT総合 Privacy watchdog says it’s ‘surprised’ by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training
The language is ambiguous, so it's not clear whether X is helping itself to all user data for training Grok or whether t...
IT総合 Energy tech startup Greenely grabs €8M to reach more households and support Europe’s energy transition
The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Green...
IT総合 Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking
Google is no longer proposing to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in Chrome, instead suggesting that users be give...
IT総合 EU to investigate Delivery Hero and Glovo over food delivery cartel concerns
The EC has announced an investigation into Berlin-based food delivery giant Delivery Hero and its Spanish subsidiary, Gl...
IT総合 The EU just re-elected its president for another five years — here’s what that means for tech
The European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, was confirmed in the role for another five years Thursday af...
IT総合 Google accused of misleading consumers to grab more data for ads
Italy's competition watchdog is investigating how Google gets user consent in order to link their activity across differ...
IT総合 On AI, new UK gov’t to work on ‘appropriate’ rules for ‘most powerful’ models and beef up product safety powers
There had been rumors the UK’s shiny new-in-post Labour government would commit to introducing a dedicated artific...
IT総合 Local experience discovery startup, Bigfoot, adds GenAI to fast-track weekend planning
Can generative AI substitute for having a social graph? California-based local experiences discovery startup Bigfoot is ...
IT総合 Ultrahuman’s smart ring gets FDA-approved AFib detection
The smart ring has long played second fiddle to the smart watch. While tech giants like Apple and Google duked it out ov...
IT総合 More bad news for Elon Musk after X user’s legal challenge to shadowban prevails
If X continues to violate Europe's data protection rules, the company is on the hook for fines of up to €4,000 per day.
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IT総合 Europe confirms first clutch of DSA grievances on Elon Musk’s X
The platform formerly known as Twitter has earned the dubious honor of being the first very large online platform (VLOP)...
IT総合 EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines
The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of ...
IT総合 EU ends Apple Pay antitrust probe with binding commitments to open up contactless payments
The European Union has accepted commitments from Apple over how it operates Apple Pay to settle a long running competiti...
IT総合 XNXX joins handful of adult sites subject to EU’s strictest content moderation rules
The European Union has designated adult content website XNXX as subject to the strictest level of content regulation und...
IT総合 Byway is using AI to help travelers slow down and take the scenic route
Solo founder Cat Jones took the plunge on setting up a travel business right around the time the pandemic was hitting Eu...
IT総合 Microsoft-owned adtech Xandr accused of EU privacy breaches
An adtech business owned by Microsoft is the target of a complaint backed by European privacy advocacy group, noyb ̵...
IT総合 Delivery Hero warns it could face €400M antitrust fine
Berlin-based food delivery giant Delivery Hero has warned investors it may “ultimately” face an antitrust fi...
IT総合 Amazon faces more EU scrutiny over recommender algorithms and ads transparency
In its latest step targeting a major marketplace, the European Commission sent Amazon another request for information (R...
IT総合 In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service
Collaborative document features are being made available inside Proton Drive, further extending the company's trademark ...
IT総合 Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds
Preliminary findings by the European Commission investigating a controversial binary choice Meta has forced on regional ...