The EU provisionally finds that TikTok breached the DSA by failing to offer a publicly searchable ad library, potentially opening the platform up to a fine (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$32.8B, below $33B est., and net income up 200%+ to ~$1.7B due to equity investment gains; BABA drops 5%+ (Bloomberg) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data and planned to deploy ransomware, but Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S (Joe Tidy/BBC) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
altcha-org/altcha: GDPR, WCAG 2.2 AA, and EAA compliant, self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative with PoW mechanism and advanced anti-spam filter. May 15, 2025 by appcompact
The Belgian Court of Appeal rules the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and much of the internet, is illegal across Europe (Johnny Ryan/Irish Council …) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
Open letter: SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton says a 2024 TOS update did not intend to allow AI training on user content; SoundCloud revised the wording on May 14 (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
YouTube announces Peak Points, a pilot Gemini AI feature that lets advertisers target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with a video (Zach Vallese/CNBC) May 15, 2025 by appcompact
