Germany’s Federal Cartel Office is claiming a win after Meta unhooked the VR glasses formerly known as Oculus from a Facebook login. Users can now sign into a separate “Meta” account after the original requirement to connect the VR gear to a Facebook login prompted an official competition complaint against […]
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Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland • The Register
Russia’s most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local interests. Yandex is a sprawling conglomerate often characterized as Russia’s Google. It started as a search company, then moved into advertising, maps, e-commerce, […]
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of NHS bidders • The Register
A family doctors’ conference has called on the UK’s medics union to help scrutinize bidders for the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract to ensure they have a positive track record on security, privacy and ethics. In London yesterday the BMA’s GPs Committee hosted a conference of representatives from England’s […]