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Submission + - Apple Violated Antitrust Ruling, Federal Judge Finds (ground.news)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: On April 30, 2025, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland ruled that Apple willfully violated a 2021 injunction related to its App Store practices.
The violation occurred because Apple imposed new fees and policies that blocked meaningful competition for external app purchases, defying the court's original order.
The court found Apple engineered obstacles like 27% commissions on off-App Store purchases, scare screens, and static URLs to deter users from using alternative payment methods.
Judge Rogers described Apple's response as a "blatant attempt to sidestep the court's authority" and referred Apple and VP Alex Roman for potential criminal contempt after finding Roman lied under oath.
The ruling bars Apple from interfering with developers' ability to communicate alternative payment options and may lead to criminal charges, while Epic Games signals potential return of Fortnite to iOS.

Submission + - SPAM: Microsoft Teams Up With Voting Machine Maker to Let Voters Track Ballots

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hart InterCivic Inc., one of the largest voting machine makers in the U.S., will incorporate Microsoft’s vote-tracking system into its in-person machines, adding a layer of security that may help reduce heightened attacks on the legitimacy of U.S. election results. The program will allow people to confirm their votes were counted after they’re cast. The partnership makes Hart the first manufacturer in the U.S. to allow local voting jurisdictions to incorporate ballot-tracking software into machines, the companies said Thursday in a joint statement. The program will let voters track their choices and offer security experts using Hart’s system the opportunity to independently audit results using Microsoft’s ElectionGuard software.

The technology would not change the process for voters. In most cases, voters would still fill out their ballots the same way they did in November 2020, either using a touchscreen or by hand-marking a ballot. Once they submit their ballots, voters will receive a piece of paper with a verification or QR code, which they can i nput into their local election jurisdiction’s website to track their ballot through the tabulation process. The process is done without revealing the content of the voter’s ballot while maintaining the privacy and secrecy of their selections, according to the statement. The system will also allow third-parties, including political parties or news organizations, to write their own programs to confirm election tallies.
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Submission + - SPAM: Satellites May Have Been Underestimating the Planet's Warming For Decades

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That's the takeaway from a new study that finds satellite measurements have likely been underestimating the warming of the lower levels of the atmosphere over the last 40 years. Basic physics equations govern the relationship between temperature and moisture in the air, but many measurements of temperature and moisture used in climate models diverge from this relationship, the new study finds. That means either satellite measurements of the troposphere have underestimated its temperature or overestimated its moisture, study leader Ben Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, said in a statement.

"It is currently difficult to determine which interpretation is more credible," Santer said. "But our analysis reveals that several observational datasets — particularly those with the smallest values of ocean surface warming and tropospheric warming — appear to be at odds with other, independently measured complementary variables." Complementary variables are those with a physical relationship to each other. In other words, the measurements that show the least warming might also be the least reliable.
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Submission + - Apple lets some traffic bypass firewalls (twitter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wardle tweeted a portion of a bug report he submitted to Apple during the Big Sur beta phase. It specifically warns that “essential security tools such as firewalls are ineffective” under the change.

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

Others have openly criticized Apple's Big Sur on similar grounds:

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/...

Submission + - DARPA moves ahead with radical vertical takeoff aircraft (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency took one step further in building a radically different vertical take off and landing or VTOL aircraft that can fly fast and carry a big load. Specifically DARPA awarded Aurora Flight Sciences the $89 million prime contract for Phase 2 of the agency’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program

Submission + - Internet by light promises to leave Wi-Fi eating dust (yahoo.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp — that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology.

French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the technology at the Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona. As soon as a smartphone was placed under an office lamp, it started playing a video.

The big advantage of Li-Fi, short for "light fidelity", is theoretical speeds of over 200 Gbps

Submission + - How Shari Steele Plans To Take Tor Mainstream

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: Over her career, Shari Steel has taken on United States Department of Justice, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She built the Electronic Frontier Foundation into an international powerhouse for protecting online rights.

Today, she has a new mission, perhaps her heaviest challenge yet: Take the Internet’s most powerful privacy tool mainstream.

Submission + - Cyber Crooks Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cyber crooks have set up a clever new clickjacking campaign that takes advantage of pop-up alerts that European users are (by now) accustomed to see: the "EU Cookie Law" notifications. The criminals are placing a legitimate ad banner on top of the warning message via an iframe. The trick is to make the ad invisible by setting its opacity to zero. So, each time a user clicks anywhere on the legitimate message, he or she clicks also on the hidden ad.

Submission + - Problems with the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com)

Submitted by Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens writes: At the TAPR conference this year, I did a talk on why Open Hardware licenses don't actually work, and how it would actually hurt us if they did. I'm not saying you should stop making Open Hardware, I just want to make sure you don't assume the license works better than it actually does. Also, I explain why my latest project is 100% Open Source but the hardware design is more restrictively licensed than the Open Hardware Definition would allow. The video is here.

There's a long prelude of talk about Amateur Radio stuff before the Open Hardware part. But you'll probably find it interesting.

Gary didn't succeed with the Kickstarter to fund recording the entire conference this year, but he made the trip and recorded it with a multi-camera shoot anyway, at significant personal expense. If you like the video, please help cover his expenses. Even $1 would help.

Submission + - Lori Garver claims that NASA is 'wary' of Elon Musk's Mars plans (examiner.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: Ars Technica reported that former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver claimed, during a panel discussion at the Council for Foreign Relations, that many at NASA are “wary’ of the Mars ambitions of SpaceX’s Elon Musk. While the space agency has yielded low Earth operations to the commercial sector as part of the commercial crew program, it reserves for itself deep space exploration. As with many things that publically come out of Garver’s mouth, this statement has to be taken with a grain of salt.

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