Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️
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Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan
https://t.co/XLfvya2CR8
Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late'
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The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech.
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Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊
This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware.
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted leave to intervene in Apple v. European Commission (T-359/25). Apple is seeking to annul interoperability measures it must take to comply with Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act.
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"Apple’s latest iOS 26.5 update is bringing some AirPods and Apple Watch-exclusive features to third-party earbuds and wearables — but only for phones in the EU."
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🚀 Just launched the new https://t.co/7Qhi3docOz. Some highlights:
New Examples browser with category filters.
New Search with with content preview, plus platform and section labels and filters.
Selected platform now remembered site-wide.
The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products.
But one glaring failure stands out: browser engines on iOS.
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Alex Moore (Executive Director of OWA) and John Ozbay (CEO and Founder of Cryptee) were recently interviewed by Simonetta Vezzoso, a European academic specializing in digital competition law and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Check it out:
https://t.co/cuSChrFFsh
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On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.
Breaking: Google Appeals Final Judgment in DOJ Case
Google is requesting a stay on certain provisions of the Final Judgment pending Google’s appeal of the Court’s liability and remedies rulings.
- Let third-party browsers install and manage web apps using their own engines.
- Remove barriers to web app adoption, such as implementing a web app equivalent to smart banners or install prompts in iOS Safari.
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The most important outcomes being the CMA can compel Apple to:
- Allow third-party browsers on iOS to use their own engines.
- Provide equivalent access to functionality for browsers using their own browser engines.
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