National security considerations in competition enforcement

 OECD (!), here. 

VW cuts owners' access to their own vehicle data with API change

 Heise.de, here. 

Unsurprising, but this increasingly makes the Data Act a...laughing stock? A good idea that was already watered down during the long negotiations - never enough for the VDL-supported car industry! 

More generally, are all regulatory systems that give 'API control' to the gatekeeper bound to fail? We discussed exactly this in Episode 3. 

 

Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

 M. Masnick, here. 

What do UK watchdog’s new rules on Google AI results mean for publishers?

 The Guardian, here.