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Texas sues Sony, Samsung, LG, TCL, and Hisense, for non-consensually spying on their TV’s screens, even when displaying HDMI video input (e.g. from an Apple TV box or other external source).

Indian government considering requiring Apple (and all other smartphone makers): to activate satellite-assisted GPS on their devices at all times with no option for users to disable the feature and: to disable pop-up notifications that inform users when a…

The Verge finds Copilot “incompetent” and “an exercise in pure frustration,” utterly failing to live up to the vision presented in Microsoft’s ads — “time after time, Copilot got things wrong, made stuff up, and spoke to me like I was a child.”

Now 90% of all Windows games run on Linux.

iMessage uses the same encrypted protocol as all Apple Push Notifications, rendering it basically impossible for authoritarian nations (and hostile mobile carriers) to block iMessage without also blocking all first- and third-party push notifications.

Microsoft having multiple usability problems with Windows updates, and “massive backlash” over recent Windows changes.

Preliminary EV sales data shows “nosedive” after the October 1 cessation of the $7,500 federal tax credit — on which Tesla may heavily depend for its long-term profitability.

Microsoft’s 27% investment in OpenAI appears to have lost over $3 billion in just one quarter.

Gelsinger now saying that: the “decay” he found when he returned to [Intel] was “deeper and harder than I’d realized.”

Spotify’s compensation system apparently has been gamed successfully for more than three years, via bots that created “37 billion streams” for the purpose of diverting money to a single artist at the expense of all others.

Many HP and Dell users suddenly find that their laptops won’t play industry-standard HEVC/H.265 video used by many websites, because the video decoder built into the computer’s Intel chip was remotely, involuntarily disabled by HP and Dell — apparently due