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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SimpleImages) European regulators have agreed on a Digital Markets Act that would impose a variety of new requirements on Big Tech companies classified as “gatekeepers.” Final votes on the legislation are still pending. “The text provisionally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators targets large companies providing so-called ‘core platform services’ […]
Ten-year hactivist fugitive Commander X arrested in Mexico
Enlarge / Chris Doyon, in full “Anonymous mythology” mode, when I met him in Canada. (credit: Nate Anderson) A decade after Chris “Commander X” Doyon skipped out on a federal hacking charge and fled the country, the long arm of US law enforcement this week plucked him from Mexico City, where he had claimed political […]
FAA urges airlines to replace altimeters that can’t filter out 5G signals
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BackyardProduction) The Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly urging airlines to retrofit or replace altimeters that receive transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. The FAA is meeting Wednesday “with telecom and airline industry officials on a push to retrofit and ultimately replace some airplane radio altimeters that could face interference from […]