av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 6, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google’s news services, such as Apple News, diminish its branding by downplaying where it gets its new stories.
The new accusations come in the midst of an ongoing investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the two tech giants’ dominance in web browser engines and smartphone operating systems. The new complaint from the BBC suggests that aggregate news services minimize credit for the providers of the news those programs feature.
Källa: Tribunal hears that lack of credit hurts BBC’s reputation, funding
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av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 6, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

UK-based Jaguar Land Rover says it’s pausing shipments to the US after President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on passenger vehicles and other auto imports. The pause will be in effect this month, the Associated Press reports. While the full impact of the tariffs remains to be seen, analysts have said the move could ultimately drive up the cost of new and even used cars.
Källa: Jaguar Land Rover pauses US shipments while it figures out a plan for Trump’s tariffs
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

It’s going to cost you if you want to see Alex Ovechkin have a chance to break Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goal-scoring mark on Sunday against the Islanders.
Ticket prices skyrocketed after the 39-year-old Capitals star scored the 893rd and 894th goals to tie The Great One’s mark against the Blackhawks at Capital One Arena on Friday night.
It sets him up to move all alone into first place when Washington heads to UBS Arena on Sunday afternoon.
Källa: Capitals-Islanders ticket prices skyrocket with Alex Ovechkin one…
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

President Donald Trump’s high-tariff regime will impose higher prices and lower growth on Americans. It will have another effect that nobody in the administration seems to have considered at all: a tsunami of smuggling.
In a few days’ time, every desirable consumer good will be dramatically more expensive in the United States than on world markets. Flat-screen TVs, athletic shoes, video-game equipment, even household basics such as coffee, toilet paper, and soy sauce—all will soon cost 20, 25, 35 percent more than they cost on world markets.
Källa: Make Smuggling Great Again
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened the affair, which he had billed as America’s “Liberation Day,” with a rant about the dire state of the nation that could have been cribbed directly from Steve Bannon’s first draft of Trump’s 2017 “American Carnage” Inaugural Address: cities and towns “raped” and “pillaged”; factories “ransacked”; a country “ripped off.” The apocalyptic bluster, like the loud red tie and the strange riffs about Canadian milk and radical-left lunatic judges, was familiar stuff—we’ve heard this so many times before.
Källa: Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in the early 70s and as co-founders of a road traffic analysis company called Traf-O-Data. But Micro-Soft, later renamed to drop the hyphen and relocated to its current headquarters in Redmond, Washington, would be the company that would transform personal computing over the next five decades.
I’m not here to do a history of Microsoft, because Wikipedia already exists and because the company has already put together a gauzy 50th-anniversary retrospective site with some retro-themed wallpapers. But the anniversary did make me try to remember which Microsoft product I consciously used for the first time, the one that made me aware of the company and the work it was doing.
Källa: Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0