Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

As the USV-Google remedy trial begins, the FTC, also sues Uber and makes Airbnb disclose all fees.

Looks like tech regulation is still very much a thing.

Blue Sky begins rolling out verification.

Meta is using AI to find if kids are lying about their age on Instagram,

and Microsoft is forging ahead with that recall feature.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The remedy phase of the USV Google trial has opened with the DOJ, arguing that Google should be

forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies extreme, quoting the Washington Post.

We're here to restore competition to these markets, said David Dahlquist, a Justice Department

lawyer who laid out in court measures that he said were necessary

to address a feedback loop of anti-competitive practices that has allowed Google to freeze out

internet search rivals. The remedies will allow all rivals to take the field and allow that

block of ice to thaw, Dahlquist said in his opening arguments in a three-week trial over

how to address Google's search monopoly.

In August, Judge Emmett P. Meta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that Google illegally abused its market power to crush competition in Internet search,

calling the company a monopolist that has, quote, acted as one to maintain its monopoly.

Meta is also presiding over the current trial and has said he expects to

issue a ruling on remedies in August or September. The government late last year asked Meta to

force Google to divest Chrome and prohibit the company from paying smartphone companies such as

Apple and Samsung to make Google search a default on devices positions the Trump administration's

Justice Department reaffirmed last month. It has also asked for provisions forcing Google to share

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