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Following the shutdown of an alternative app store, Apple has accused the European Commission (EC) of using “political delay tactics” as an excuse to probe and fine the company, Bloomberg reported. Apple issued the statement preemptively as commission is reportedly preparing to blame Apple for the shutdown of third-party app store Setapp due to what the developer called “still-evolving and complex business terms.”As part of an EU ruling, Apple was forced to allow third-party marketplaces for apps once the Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect in 2024. Apple agreed to allow such stores, but implemented fees of €0.50 per installation…
Arsenal legend Paul Merson insists that Cole Palmer will be sold by Chelsea if another club puts in a bid of £120m or more in the summer. The Blues got a bargain when they paid Manchester City £40m in 2023 with the England international contributing 41 goals and 19 assists in 82 Premier League appearances since arriving at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea are struggling to match his ambitions, though, with the Blues sacking Enzo Maresca earlier this month and replacing him with Liam Rosenior. The Blues finished sixth and fourth in Palmer’s first two seasons at Stamford Bridge and sixth-placed Chelsea…
With the spring approaching, it’s time to start thinking about how you’ll file your taxes. Unfortunately, with the recent demise of Direct File, there isn’t a free, government-provided alternative to TurboTax in 2026, and you’ll need to look to other federal programs, including IRS Free File, to file your paperwork. If you don’t qualify for Free File, chances are you’ll need to dish out cash for Intuit’s software. And while we hate to suggest you give money to a company that has spent decades lobbying to ensure America’s tax system remains a nightmare, we can at least save you some…
According to reports, Tottenham Hotspur could end up signing two Liverpool players in this month’s transfer window as they are ‘willing to offer’ £30m. On Friday, it emerged that the north London outfit were working on a deal to sign Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson. The Scotland international has fallen in the pecking order following Milos Kerkez’s move to Liverpool and is due to be out of contract at the end of this season. Reports have indicated that Spurs were initially intending to wait until the summer to sign Robertson on a free transfer, but they have brought forward these plans.…
Image: GoldenDayz/Envato Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a password. Sharing his findings with ExpressVPN, Fowler noted, “The publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted.” The collection was so large and detailed that it wasn’t just a list of names; it included emails, usernames, passwords, and the specific website links needed to log into the accounts. The total count of records and the size of the exposed infostealer database. Credit: ExpressVPN/Jeremiah Fowler. The scale of this…
Tesla just objectively decreased the value of the Model 3 and Model Y. On Thursday, the company said it’s paywalling its lane-centering feature, Autosteer, for new purchases of the two EVs in the US and Canada. This was previously a standard feature. Lane centering is now part of the Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) package, which costs $99 per month.Speculating on why Tesla would do this doesn’t require much imagination. Remember the pay package Tesla shareholders approved for Musk in November? One of his requirements for receiving up to $1 trillion is reaching 10 million active FSD subscriptions.One of Musk’s stipulations…
Jonathan Head,South East Asia correspondent, BangkokandSen Nguyen,BangkokVIETNAM NEWS AGENCY/HANDOUT/EPA/ShutterstockTo Lam will lead the party and country for the next five yearsWelcome to the new era of “national rise”!That was the pitch made by Vietnam’s most powerful figure, Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, as he faced the nearly 1,600 delegates at the party congress, which gathered this week to determine the country’s path for the next five years, and who leads it.On Friday it picked To Lam Vietnam to be party chief, the post he currently holds, for the next five years, giving him another term to achieve his ambitious…
According to reports, wantaway Crystal Palace star Jean-Philippe Mateta is ‘hoping’ for a move to Manchester United, whose stance has also emerged. Mateta has been one of the standout strikers in the Premier League over the past couple of seasons as he has shone under head coach Oliver Glasner. The striker and the head coach have contributed to Palace’s success in recent years, but an exodus from the Premier League club is currently ongoing. This month, Marc Guehi has been sold to Manchester City, while Glasner has announced that he will be leaving Palace upon the expiry of his contract…
The United States’ Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 – CISA 2015 – which came within a hair’s breadth of lapsing for good at the end of 2025, will now likely be extended through to the end of September as part of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding package for 2026. The DHS Appropriations Act narrowly passed the House of Representatives on Thursday 22 January, overcoming Democrat objections to funding the controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which falls under the department’s remit. It will head to the Senate where it is expected to be taken up…
In Big Tech’s never-ending quest to increase AI adoption, Google has unveiled a meme generator. The new Google Photos feature, Me Meme, lets you create personalized memes starring a synthetic version of you.Google describes Me Meme as “a simple way to explore with your photos and create content that’s ready to share with friends and family.” You can choose from a variety of templates or “upload your own funny picture” to use in their place.The feature isn’t live for everyone yet, so you may not yet have access to it. (A Google representative told TechCrunch that the feature will roll…