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Google and Apple face enforced changes to how they operate their mobile phone platforms, after the UK's competition watchdog ruled the companies require tougher regulatory oversight. From a report: The Competition and Markets Authority has conferred "strategic market status" (SMS) on the tech firms after investigating their mobile operating systems, app stores and browsers. It means Apple and Google will be subjected to tailormade guidelines to regulate their behaviour in the mobile market. The CMA said the two companies have "substantial, entrenched" market power, with UK mobile phone owners using either Google or Apple's platforms and unlikely to switch between them. The regulator flagged the importance of their platforms to the UK economy and said they could be a bottleneck for businesses. [...] Changes under consideration by the CMA include allowing users to be "steered" out of app stores to make purchases elsewhere, like on a company's own website. App developers have long taken issue with Apple and Google taking a cut from purchases made via apps. The CMA also wants both companies to ensure users have a "genuine choice" over the services they use on their devices, like digital wallets on Apple.

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The group were arrested last month after a video of several photos and clips of the disgraced financier and Mr Trump together over the years were displayed onto the brick walls.

As many as 70,000 people are expected to enjoy the festivities in Colchester

Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid proved their age-gap romance was flourishing as they marked their two-year anniversary in NYC this week.

Historic building has racked up hundreds of paranormal reports over the centuries, cementing its reputation as one of Essex's most haunted locations.

Historic building has racked up hundreds of paranormal reports over the centuries, cementing its reputation as one of Essex's most haunted locations.

Labour's Schools White Paper will now be released in early in the New Year, rather than this autumn, after ministers said it needed further work.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Social media platform Reddit sued AI startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity's AI-based search engine. Reddit said in the complaint that the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures in order to steal data that Perplexity "desperately needs" to power its "answer engine" system.

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He damaged a door as he left the scene

She appeared in court today

Previous plans were refused by the council

Company shares lost value on slow-than-expected sales

The global semiconductor market is recovering, albeit at a slower pace than in previous cycles due to macroeconomic dynamics and ongoing uncertainty caused by US trade policy and tariffs, according to Texas Instruments.…

Home Office sources confirmed the unnamed migrant had been removed from Britain on an unknown date since the scheme came into force five weeks ago - but has now come back.

Records show a donation to the hospital where Epstein took Virginia Giuffre after she woke up at his mansion in a pool of blood.

Plus spy helping spy: Typhoons teaming up

Security researchers now say more Chinese crews - likely including Salt Typhoon - than previously believed exploited a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, and used the flaw to target government agencies, telecommunications providers, a university, and a finance company across multiple continents.…

Staff at the Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, allowed 28-year-old Tom Boyd to volunteer after his parents and support workers reached out to them with the request four years ago.

Personal trainer Hayler, 38, is alleged to have committed the offences between June and October 2016 - in the middle of his marriage to the ex-glamour model, 47.

The French like to go their own way - especially when it comes to popular culture. Nothing illustrates this more than them according one of the nation's greatest artistic honours to Jim Carrey.

Meta removed a deepfake video from Facebook that falsely depicted Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Ireland's presidential election. The video was posted to an account called RTE News AI and viewed almost 30,000 times over 12 hours before the Irish Independent contacted the platform. The fabricated bulletin featured AI-generated versions of RTE newsreader Sharon Ni Bheolain and political correspondent Paul Cunningham announcing that Connolly had ended her campaign and the election scheduled for Friday would be cancelled. Connolly responded in a statement that she remained a candidate and called the video a disgraceful attempt to mislead voters. Meta confirmed the account violated its community standards against impersonating people and organizations. Ireland's media regulator Coimisiun na Mean contacted Meta about the incident and reminded the platform of its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act. An Irish Times poll published last Thursday found Connolly leading the race with 38% support.

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Dahbia Benkired, 27, an Algerian migrant living in France , allegedly lured schoolgirl Lola Daviet into her apartment on October 14, 2022, before sexually assaulting and killing her.