After placing iPadOS under its Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules last month, the European Commission has now designated Booking as a Gatekeeper, finding its online intermediation service Booking.com “meets the relevant thresholds” to be a core platform service.
That’s two additional services (and one new Gatekeeper) now on the list since the first 22 were named in September.
The country that gave us Linux has now produced Windows95man, who came 19th in this year’s contest with “No Rules!” The actual performance might be geoblocked for your region on YouTube, but you can watch the music video below.
It’s fun, silly, and somehow less cheesy than Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer dancing on stage during the actual Windows 95 launch party.
Brussels is reportedly set to target Microsoft with new antitrust charges in the coming weeks, over concerns that concessions like unbundling Teams from Office 365 “did not go far enough to enable fairness in the market.”
Microsoft still has time to offer additional concessions to appease the European Commission, after nearly a year of a formal antitrust investigation that originated from a Slack complaint in 2020.
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The application to extend an injunction for X to remove posts depicting an attack on a church bishop was refused on Monday, for yet undisclosed reasons. A final hearing is expected in mid-June.
X blocked the video for Australian users but refused to remove it globally, despite the Australian eSafety Commission finding that geoblocking wasn’t enough to comply with its online safety laws.
A Luxembourg court found that Jeff Dieschburg’s “Turandot” painting — a near like-for-like copy of an image taken by photographer Jingna Zhang — violated copyright by referencing Zhang’s work without consent or attribution.
While this case isn’t directly connected to her anti-AI efforts, Zhang said the ruling is a win for individual copyright protection “in time of AI where our rights seem to be quickly eroding.”
After announcing Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — an Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson-backed movie set for 2026 — Warner Bros. has taken down an old fan-made movie that shares the same name.
Now blocked “on copyright grounds” for allegedly containing Warner Bros. content, the 15-year-old YouTube video from Independent Online Cinema had previously accrued 13.6 million views.
