… The appeal, due to be heard on April 28 and 29, follows a ruling by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal CAT in November that the resale of perpetual licenses for Microsoft software was not illegal. …
… Openreach rivals appear sanguine about the situation, with a spokesperson for altnet CityFibre telling The Register that "the Telecoms Access Review provides CityFibre with a stable regulatory framework as we scale our network and bring the benefits of genuine infrastructure competition – lower pri… …
… Microsoft admitted in a French court last year that it couldn't guarantee data sovereignty for European customers in the event of an injunction that was legally justified. …
… MORE CONTEXT Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new … …
… MORE CONTEXT AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst UK watc… …
… But there's a more fundamental risk – remaining relevant in the face of increasingly capable competition from China. …
… We're rolling out measures to prevent this from happening again." As of this writing, the original uploader of the Claude Code source to GitHub has repurposed his repo to host a Python feature port of Claude Code instead of Anthropic's directly exposed source, citing concerns that he could be held … …
… He noted that RubyGems is "not some niche tool... we're talking about critical infrastructure on the internet." McQuaid mentioned that "both sides have talked about how they've engaged in legal action with the other," which he sees as fatal to chances of reconciliation. …
… We have only ourselves to blame for allowing software-driven cars , for accepting the legality of AI code laundering , and for allowing AI systems to dispense bad medical advice . …