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// technology and science news, explained
The laws and regulators shaping technology: privacy, competition, online safety, chips and AI rules around the world.
Tech Policy Explainer
The law in force since December 2024 makes product makers report exploited vulnerabilities from September 2026; its main security rules apply from 2027.
The suit says the restaurant software and payments company hid fees, charged for add-ons without consent and made canceling hard. Toast has said it disagrees.
The CMA says Meta's business terms could let it use content from publishers' websites, including for AI, without their say. Meta has paused a planned revision.
A proposed FTC consent order requires Publicis to keep LiveRamp's data services open to its rivals, and walled off from its own business, for five years.
The FTC gave nine companies, from airlines to delivery apps, 45 days to explain whether personal data shapes the prices consumers pay and what gig workers earn.
Tech Policy Explainer
The DSA gives platforms with over 45 million EU users extra duties and lets the Commission fine them up to 6% of global turnover. Here is how it works.
NIST's final transition report deprecates all quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms after 2030 and disallows them after 2035, tightening its 2024 draft.
Headlines as each source published them, with links to the original releases.