Aibo — Sony’s “Four-Legged Entertainment Robot” — hit the shelves in 1999, to the utter horror of parents (like my own) who had barely recovered from Furbies launching the year prior.
Happy 25th birthday you old dog! My inner child is heartbroken to have never owned you, but my now 30-year-old self will happily skip the current model’s near $3,000 price tag.
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.
[Financial Times]
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.
