Daring Fireball

The European Commission:
The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products fromEU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portablebatteries.
Under the EU’s Batteries Regulation, portable batteries inproducts sold in the EU must generally be removable andreplaceable by consumers. This helps extend products’ lifetime byallowing battery replacements and supports recycling by making iteasier...

Quiche Industries (Greg de J.):
Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in searchresults by default, out of the box.
Compare how much space and time they waste. I love the webtoo much to let that nonsense bury links to real websitesmade by humans....

Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web. (We don’t (yet?) have an RSS feed that you can put in your podcast player for these occasional...

OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week:
“While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of anyevidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in faircompetition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever theychoose, and we’re focused on building innovative technology thatempowers...