Daily Tech News 25 November 2022

• Europe is threatening to frown at Twitter if Elon Musk closes all the company's European offices and tells the tiny-minded fascists of the EU to take a hike. (Tech Crunch)

  For "appropriateness of the expertise and resources allocated" read: "Shuttering local offices and canning EU staff will be frowned upon - hard."

  That idiocy is Tech Crunch's own wording, but it's understandable because EU officials actually said this:

  For those platforms that the Commission will designate as very large online platforms, the risk management obligations also include a strong component on the appropriateness of the resources allocated to managing societal risks in the Union. Among other matters, the Commission will scrutinise the appropriateness of the expertise and resources allocated, as well as the way they organise their compliance function.

  The appropriate thing to do is for Musk to close down all operations in Europe and direct users at a US-based portal to pay their $8.
  
  It's not like Europe is going to create its own social network.
  
  
  
• Turning and turning in the widening gyre
  The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
  Mere amnesty is loosed upon the world. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Twitter has announced it is granting amnesty to all accounts previously banned for reasons other than actually breaking the law or persistent spam.
  
  I strongly suspect that the records of the former Bureau of Censorship and Intimidation contain so much bullshit that they can't even begin to selectively undo the damage of the past four years.
  
  The mass reinstatements start next week; no indication yet how long it will take to complete.
  
  The usual suspects say that this is the three hundred and seventeenth sign of the Apocalypse which seems to be running seriously behind schedule at this point.

• The PlayStation 6 could launch in 2028. (WCCFTech)
  
  The PlayStation 5 meanwhile will be in stock in retail stores no later than 2030.
  
  
  
• The FTC meanwhile is frowning at Microsoft's acquisition of Activision. (Ars Technica)
  
  Which in my opinion is good news for Microsoft.
  
  
  
• Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time: IBM is suing Micro Focus for allegedly reverse-engineering CICS to create its own Enterprise Server product... Close to 20 years ago. (The Register)
  
  CICS was first released in 1969. Micro Focus was founded in 1976, and while I couldn't find exactly when the first version of their Enterprise Server was released, it has been quite a while. Not sure if this sort of suit has any de facto expiry on it the way trademarks do.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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