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

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

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

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