Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, March 5th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The big DMA deadline is mere hours away. A big Twitter-related lawsuit has arrived that I kind of can't

believe took this long. Nothing releases a pretty compelling cheap phone.

Waimo is bringing its driverless taxi service to Los Angeles and is

Linux quietly having a moment?

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Thursday, March 7th is the day that all the big tech platforms,

alphabet, Amazon, Apple, bite dance, meta, even Microsoft have to comply with that

new European Digital Markets Act or face fines.

Well, Google finally outlined its updates to comply with the DMA, search changes to prioritize large intermediaries and aggregators, new tools for

app developers and more, quoting Reuters. Changes to search results mean large

intermediaries and aggregators will get more traffic while

hotels, airlines, merchants, and restaurants will get less, Google said in a blog post.

Users will be asked for their consent to allow Google to share their data across Google

products and Services.

App developers will be able to use alternative billing systems and not just Google Play's

billing, while a new program will allow them to directly lead European users outside the app to promote their products.

Google will also launch Data Portability software in Europe this week, making it easier for

developers to move user data to a third-party app or service." End quoting Tech Crunch. Today Google

is also announcing that it stopped the default linking of personal data

across user accounts for certain of its products, which it's previously used

to power personalization, in quotes, of

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