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Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/18/apple-an…

Apple announces major App Store changes for Brazil - 9to5Mac
App developers can now distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set of changes in the country.

from my link log —
Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/24/modelling-bbrs-interactions-with-loss-based-congestion-control/
saved 2020-01-25 …

Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

--Ted Chiang, The Atlantic
Should we seriously consider the possibility that Claude, or any large language model, might be conscious? And if it has feelings, is it capable of receiving moral instruction?
No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning re…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

📢 Mutmaßliche chinesische Spione in München festgenommen
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat in München zwei mutmaßliche chinesische Spione festnehmen lassen. Das Ehepaar mit deutscher Staatsangehörigkeit soll für einen chinesischen Geheimdienst Kontakt zu Wissenschaftlern an deutschen Hochschulen aufgenommen haben.
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Mutmaßliche chinesische Spione in München festgenommen
Ein Ehepaar soll für China an deutschen Hochschulen spioniert haben. Laut Bundesanwaltschaft haben die zwei festgenommenen Personen versucht, an wissenschaftliche Informationen zu Militärtechnologie zu gelangen.

Höchster Alarm! Verhaftung von Jesus Plšcido Galindo, Beauftragter des Concejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero Emiliano Zapata – CIPOG-EZ
🚨Dringender Aufruf!🚨
Sofortige Freilassung von Jesús Placido Galindo, Mitglie

AliExpress: EU-Kommission verhängt DSA-Rekordstrafe
Der chinesische Onlinemarktplatz AliExpress hat über Jahre gegen den Digital Services Act verstoßen und muss nun 550 Millionen Euro zahlen.
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AliExpress: EU-Kommission verhängt DSA-Rekordstrafe
Der chinesische Onlinemarktplatz AliExpress hat über Jahre gegen den Digital Services Act verstoßen und muss nun 550 Millionen Euro zahlen.

I think the #LIRR strike was basically like undoing #CongestionPricing. My kids' bus has returned to taking 1.5 hours each way rather than 45-60mins.
Now that the strike is over, let's hope traffic returns to normal. It would be a great time to raise the congestion prici…

What Is Consciousness Actually Supposed To Do? | Denyse O’Leary, Mind Matters
<https://mindmatters.ai/2026/05/what-is-consciousness-actually-supposed-to-do/>
The Royal Society offers sixteen theories of the evolutionary function of conscio…

Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane
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As a House committee debated Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year,
Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
also known as food stamps,
wouldn’t affect vulnerable people.
SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program
and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,”
said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson,
a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the H…

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.