Google has been ordered by a judge to allow third-party app stores on its Android platform, following a ruling in the Epic Games lawsuit. Google is seeking an emergency stay from the 9th Circuit, calling the ruling “dangerous.” Meanwhile, cancelling subscriptions is set to become easier, and the FCC is investigating broadband data caps.
Senator Wyden warns of the dangers of government-mandated backdoors following a CALEA hack, while Elon Musk’s X will now allow third parties to train AI on user posts. X is also introducing a feature that will let users see tweets from people who have blocked them, leading many users to flock to Bluesky.
In other tech news, the US is investigating Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software after a fatal crash, a French court has ordered blanket blocks of porn sites, and Sam Altman’s Worldcoin venture is undergoing a rebrand. Winamp has deleted its entire source code repo on GitHub, while Amazon has released a new family of Kindle devices and plans to invest over $500 million in small modular reactors.
Netflix’s third-quarter subscriber numbers slightly exceeded estimates, with a 35% increase in ad-tier members. On the podcast “This Week in Tech,” host Leo Laporte is joined by Brian McCullough, Cory Doctorow, and Jason Hiner to discuss these and other tech news stories.Listeners can download or subscribe to the show at twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech.
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