Colombia threatens to break ties with Israel if it doesn’t comply with a UN cease-fire resolution

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel if the country doesn’t comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Petro made the announcement on X, formerly known as Twitter. On Monday, he published another message in … Read more

Indian firms begrudgingly comply with Google Play rules while seeking regulatory intervention

Indian firms whose apps were delisted by Google last week have begrudgingly started to comply with Play Store billing rules to get their apps back on the store. Apps like Shaadi, Matrimony.com, and Bharat Matrimony were restored after being removed from the Play Store Friday. Other apps to return include Info Edge’s Naukri and 99acres, … Read more

Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the 55 percent who did so when the design Google is phasing out in Europe was tested with a smaller pool of roughly 250 people. Yelp also tested a variation … Read more

MacPaw plans iPhone app store alternative to comply with new regulations

Jason Cipriani/ZDNET Now that the EU has forced Apple to allow sideloading apps in the European Union (EU) to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), it is only a matter of time before alternative app stores appear.  One player planning such an app outlet is MacPaw. Probably best known for its Mac utility CleanMyMac … Read more

Nvidia is releasing a slower RTX 4090 in China to comply with US restrictions

Nvidia is launching a graphics card specifically for China to comply with US export controls. In a product page on the Chinese version of Nvidia’s website, the chipmaker introduces the RTX 4090D: a GPU that’s less powerful than the flagship RTX 4090 it sells elsewhere. The RTX 4090D has fewer CUDA cores than its RTX … Read more

Google is increasing its adverts transparency heart to adjust to EU guidelines

Relating to adverts transparency, the corporate says that it is going to be “increasing” its Advertisements Transparency Middle to “meet particular DSA provisions and offering further info on concentrating on for adverts served within the European Union,” Google’s Laurie Richardson and Jennifer Flannery O’Connor write within the publish. The middle, which Google launched earlier this … Read more