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A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
Inspired by courthousenews.com · Courthouse News
LG monitors can trigger Windows to install manufacturer software that later advertised McAfee—exposing a trust boundary between hardware identity and automatic app distribution.
Inspired by s-config.com · S-Config
Europe's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is already pushing small tabletop publishers to reconsider EU shipping—not because they dislike the goal, but because compliance does not scale.
Inspired by rascal.news · Khee Hoon Chan
xssfox rescued a deactivated Cricut Maker from e-waste with an RP2040 that rewrites the serial number over USB—clever, but Design Space still holds the kill switch. The real unlock is replacing Cricut entirely.
Inspired by sprocketfox.io · xssfox
California’s first replacement-tire efficiency standards start in 2029. Off-road exemptions exist, but many road-legal all-terrain truck tires may simply stop being sold here if they cannot meet rolling-resistance limits.
Inspired by grist.org · Grist
Slashdot asks what switching among Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS really costs: not only licenses and apps, but years of muscle memory, utilities, and habits migration tools cannot move—classic economic switching costs and lock-in.
Inspired by ask.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Consumer Rights Wiki documents BMW placing a Spider-Man: Brand New Day promotion on dashboards of cars customers already owned—breaking a 2023 promise that the company would not sell in-car screen space because a vehicle is a private space.
Inspired by consumerrights.wiki · Consumer Rights Wiki
Kyle Orland examines collapsing US physical-game sales as Sony ditches discs—arguing the decline is real, but calling abandonment “practically inevitable” turns a profitable corporate choice into a force of nature rather than a decision that finishes physical ownership off.
Inspired by arstechnica.com · Kyle Orland
Slashdot reports Amazon is folding Luna cloud gaming into the Prime Video app—arguing the streaming box under the TV is quietly becoming the console, convenient in the same way streaming video is, while access lasts only as long as the service and subscription do.
Inspired by games.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Slashdot highlights Ben Shimkus’s reporting on GM’s software and services push—OnStar revenue, high software margins, and remote features that expire— arguing that buying a vehicle should mean owning its features, not an extended trial that turns into another recurring charge.
Inspired by tech.slashdot.org · Ben Shimkus
Stephen Warwick reports Microsoft bringing four original Xbox games to PCs and handhelds—arguing that digital backward compatibility is not the same as owning physical media, and that four titles fall far short of preserving a library when most classic games are already commercially unavailable.
Inspired by tomshardware.com · Stephen Warwick
