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Apple is expected to avoid hefty daily fines from the EU by modifying its App Store policies -- allowing developers to direct users to external payment options and adjusting its fee structure. Reuters reports: The company last month said developers will pay a 20% processing fee for purchases made via the App Store, though the fees could go as low as 13% for Apple's small-business program. Developers who send customers outside the App Store for payment will pay a fee between 5% and 15%. They will also be able to use as many links as they wish to send users to outside forms of payment. Apple made the changes after the EU antitrust enforcer handed it a 500 million euro ($586.7 million) fine in April, saying its technical and commercial restrictions prevented app developers from steering users to cheaper deals outside the App Store in breach of the Digital Markets Act. The company was given 60 days to scrap the restraints to comply with the DMA aimed at reining in Big Tech and giving rivals more room to compete. The European Commission is expected to approve the changes in the coming weeks, although the timing could still change, the people said. "All options remain on the table. We are still assessing Apple's proposed changes," the EU watchdog said.

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Follow Mail Sports live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as England take on Italy in the semi-finals of the 2025 Women's Euros at Stade de Geneve in Switzerland. 

The Government's move to introduce sanctions for people-smugglers is 'an obvious PR exercise' that will do little to stop small boat crossings, experts warned today. 

Brooklyn Beckham looked carefree as he shared snaps following his luxury boat trip on Instagram on Tuesday.

No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way

The next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass. …

The happy couple locked lips in front of photographers, while the Welsh actor, 51,  tenderly cradled his new wife's growing baby bump

The e-bike bay in Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, has been a 'nuisance' ever since its installation in June as an army of bikes regularly pile up and block the entrance to a busy cul-de-sac.

Ozzy Osbourne had been battling ill-health for over 20 years before his sad death on Tuesday aged 76. 

Aston Villa have paid a touching tribute to Black Sabbath singer and lifelong fan Ozzy Osbourne following his death at the age of 76 on Tuesday evening.

Over the course of his life, Osbourne had six children, including three from his first marriage.

Sir Elton John is reportedly set to perform at Steve Jobs' daughter's lavish wedding for a staggering £1 million.

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

CyberSentry work grinds to a halt

Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday.…

Power is not always where you expect it to be. The long-held ideas about who leads and who follows are being challenged and the real story behind it is more surprising, than ever imagined.

The cause of death of Melina Frattolin, the nine-year-old girl who was found dead hours after her father claimed she was abducted, has been revealed.

Republicans voted to subpoena Epstein's accomplice and longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, teeing up a public spectacle on the financier's sordid crimes that could anger Trump.

New details have been released in the death of Marshall Hunt, who was killed in February by a tire press at an Indiana factory owned by Hoosier Racing Tire. The plant has a history of safety violations.

Donald Trump's visit to Scotland will require a security operation as big as the arrangements for the Queen's funeral - involving up to 6,000 officers.

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood reportedly wasn't a strong believer in monogamy, with a new bombshell biography claiming he viewed marriage as 'a form of confinement.'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes. Assemblymember Tasha Boerner proposed the state law a few months ago, modeling the bill on a law enforced by New York. It seemed that other states were free to impose cheap-broadband mandates because the Supreme Court rejected broadband industry challenges to the New York law twice. Boerner, a Democrat who is chair of the Communications and Conveyance Committee, faced pressure from Internet service providers to change or drop the bill. She made some changes, for example lowering the $15 plan's required download speeds from 100Mbps to 50Mbps and the required upload speeds from 20Mbps to 10Mbps. But the bill was still working its way through the legislature when, according to Boerner, Trump administration officials told her office that California could lose access to $1.86 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funds if it forces ISPs to offer low-cost service to people with low incomes. That amount is California's share of a $42.45 billion fund created by Congress to expand access to broadband service. The Trump administration has overhauled program rules, delaying the grants. One change is that states can't tell ISPs what to charge for a low-cost plan. The US law that created BEAD requires Internet providers receiving federal funds to offer at least one "low-cost broadband service option for eligible subscribers." But in new guidance from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the agency said it prohibits states "from explicitly or implicitly setting the LCSO [low-cost service option] rate a subgrantee must offer." "All they would have to do to get exempted from AB 353 [the $15 broadband bill] would be to apply to the BEAD program," said Boerner. "Doesn't matter if their application was valid, appropriate, granted, or they got public money at the end of the day and built the projects -- the mere application for the BEAD program would exempt them from 353, if it didn't jeopardize from $1.86 billion to begin with. And that was a tradeoff I was unwilling to make." Another California bill in the Senate would encourage, not require, ISPs to offer cheap broadband by making them eligible for Lifeline subsidies if they sell 100/20Mbps service for $30 or less.

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