Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla’s Senior Director of Content Carolyn O’Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles for onboarding users, future plans, more  —  Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their Red Hat Enterprise Linux challenger, offering all the packages to build an enterprise Linux OS  —  When Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s Red Hat Core Platforms vice president, announced that Red Hat was putting new restrictions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paresh Dave / Wired: Ad blockers saw record uninstalls in October after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs  —  YouTube expanded a “test” that threatens to cut off users who don’t turn off their ad blocker.  Developers of the tools are scrambling to respond. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google ends its deal with Lendlease to build 15K homes in the Bay Area; in 2019, Google announced plans to build houses on $750M+ worth of land the company owns  —  The company has ended its agreement with its real estate developer.  —  Google has ended its agreement with real estate developer Landlease … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their challenge to Red Hat Enterprise Linux  —  When Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s Red Hat Core Platforms vice president, announced that Red Hat was putting new restrictions on who could access Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)’s code … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Claburn / The Register: As the EU prepared to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple argued that it has three distinct browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS  —  And with a straight face, too.  Brussels didn’t buy it  —  Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: The UK CMA says Meta pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of Meta using their data and limit how the company uses ad data for product development  —  The U.K. competition regulator said Meta Platforms has pledged to allow its Facebook Marketplace customers to opt out of having … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple expects its revenue in the holiday quarter, normally the company’s biggest sales period, to stay the same as in 2022; Wall Street had projected ~5% growth  —  – Sales of iPads and wearable products are expected to suffer  — Even with challenges, iPhone sales slightly exceed estimates Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: Ex-Instagram consultant Arturo Béjar, set to testify in Congress on November 7, says Meta did not fully act on its Well-Being Team’s findings to protect teens  —  When a Meta security expert told Mark Zuckerberg that Instagram’s approach to protecting teens wasn’t working, the CEO didn’t reply. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Claburn / The Register: As EU was preparing to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple has argued that it has three separate browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS  —  And with a straight face, too.  Brussels didn’t buy it  —  Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim … Lees verder op Tech Meme