By Siôn Geschwindt Wimbledon’s new automated line-calling system glitched during a tennis match Sunday, just days after it replaced the tournament’s human line judges for the first time.  The system, called Hawk-Eye, uses a network of cameras equipped with computer vision to track tennis balls in real-time. If the ball lands out, a pre-recorded voice loudly says, “Out.” If the ball is in, there’s no call and play continues. However, the software temporarily went dark during a women’s singles match between Brit Sonay Kartal and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Centre Court.  At 4-4 in the opening set, Pavlyuchenkova reached game point when Kartal…This story continues at The Next Web

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Even though threats of additional fines mean it has been forced to make so many changes to bring its business into compliance with Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple has always said it would appeal Europe’s $570 million fine for violating the DMA. Today, it did just that against, accusing the European Commission of going beyond what the law requires.

In a statement provided to Computerworld, Apple said: “Today we filed our appeal because we believe the European Commission’s decision, and their unprecedented fine, go far beyond what the law requires. As our appeal will show, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users. We implemented this to avoid punitive daily fines and will share the facts with the Court.”

Beyond what the law requires

The company has identified multiple instances in which regulators agreed to one thing and then demanded more, effectively dictating and micro-controlling Apple’s business to the detriment of the company and its customers. The company seems to have two strands to its argument:

The recently introduced tiered service scheme Apple reluctantly brought to market in Europe is one facet. It seems the two sides agreed that Apple could seek compensation for App Store services provided to developers through a Store Services Fee, which Apple announced last year. The regulators then changed their minds, insisting the fee structure include tiers so developers could opt out of some services. This forced Apple to introduce a new model quite recently — even though no other App Store provider offers such services in this way.

In the days following Apple’s latest changes, I saw complaints about the tiered system Apple put in place. But the company was required to split them this way by the regulators, who dictated which services had to be optional. Given regulators don’t actually make anything, it’s no surprise some of their decisions seem somewhat clumsy. 

Lack of clarity and consistency

Apple is also challenging the “steering” concept the regulators seemingly insist should be applied against its business. Announcing its record fine against Apple, Europe also redefined some of the components to justify the move. 

That meant the European Commission changed its stance to say steering wasn’t just about publicizing offers and promotions on external sites, but also about free promotion of offers and services such as alternative app payments within apps. Apple was also forced to permit links from inside apps to third-party app stores. 

Apple’s claim is that in making these changes, the regulators moved beyond the law, redefining the notion of steering in a way that exceeded what the DMA actually required. 

Win or lose, we’ve already lost

Apple will use its time in court to try to prove these claims, but the action will probably stretch across years — unless Commissioners change their approach or the political intention in the EU and/or US shifts.

While we wait, European customers will be able to enjoy the full benefits of the new arrangements, in the form of sketchy in-app pester advertising to use unregulated third-party payment services, a loyalty war as some big apps attempt to use their own market reach to create their very own app store fiefdoms, slow or no appearance of some operating system features and a less-effective search system for applications. 

It won’t all be good news, as I expect some millionaires with the cash to build and maintain App Stores of their own might carve out a couple of bucks from within this inevitable chaos. If you play games, for example, you’ll gain the pleasure of giving money for existentially inconsequential in-game digital boosts direct to the publisher, rather than via the platform. (This does also mean you’ll only have the games publisher to help you when things go wrong, including when your kids purchase in-game currency when using the app. Good luck with that.)

That’s progress I suppose, a change that will give some users a real sense of freedom from the so-called Apple Tax, and will no doubt give Europe’s current neo-liberal leadership a cozy, fuzzy feeling. Perhaps Commissioners should focus their intention elsewhere.

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US President Donald Trump today signed what he called his “One Big Beautiful Bill” during Fourth of July celebrations at the White House, after it squeaked through the House of Representatives Thursday afternoon in a 218 – 214 vote.

But the bill was missing what had been one of its most contentious clauses, at least for the tech industry: a 10 year ban on AI regulation by individual states. The Senate almost unanimously voted to remove that section on Tuesday.

However, noted Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, “H.R. 1 [the bill’s official designation] has many provisions that could fundamentally redefine the strategic environment for the enterprise.”

And despite the removal of the AI regulation ban, Bickley said, “it does signal that Washington is seriously considering a national AI framework. Tech leaders investing in genAI today should plan for a regulatory layer tomorrow, which will likely focus on explainability, auditability, and training data integrity.”

Permanent R&D and capital expensing provisions could turn the tax code into a “strategic lever,” he noted. “CIOs and CTOs now have a clear financial incentive to anchor AI training, cloud deployment, and cybersecurity tooling on US soil. For organizations with global architecture, this could reshape their location strategies around data, compute, and compliance.”

In addition, defense allocations for cyber-resilient supply chains, domestic manufacturing, and AI-adjacent technologies could give IT ”a rare but crucial chance to renegotiate vendor SLAs around security baselines,” he said.

On the minus side, he pointed out that loan caps for graduate programs and increased immigration fees could affect talent pipelines, especially for cybersecurity and AI, creating challenges for enterprises whose staffing needs are accelerating.

And while the Department of Energy got a $150 million appropriation to partner with industry sectors within the US to “curate the scientific data of the Department of Energy across the National Laboratory complex,” to make it usable by artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and to use the AI to develop microelectronics and new efficient energy technologies, the bill also slashed other energy spending and eliminated tax credits for environmental initiatives such as clean energy.

“Ultimately, it looks like H.R. 1 will reward localized innovation, incentivize tech-driven capital investment, and foreshadows a coming wave of AI oversight, all while seemingly leaving CIOs in the public sector and ESG-driven organizations to self-fund modernization efforts,” Bickley said.

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Ingram Micro is grappling with an IT outage that has stretched into a second day, leaving partners and customers of the global IT distributor unable to access some services.

The company’s main homepage still displays a curt message saying, “We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible….”

Some other domains operated by the company were even more terse, saying only “An error occurred while processing your request,” followed by an error code referencing Akamai Technologies’ EdgeSuite CDN, yet login pages to several of its partner and customer portals at other domain names made no mention of the problem and appeared to function.

The company’s cloud service status page at status.cloud.im reported that its reseller control panel, marketplace API, Microsoft 365 management console, Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution Provider and New Commerce Experience portals, and Professional Services Automation integration tools were operational and listed no incidents within the last 30 days.

Email and phone inquiries to Ingram Micro offices in several countries went unanswered.

The disruption, which began on July 3, has sparked frustration among users, many of whom have taken to Reddit to voice concerns and speculate on possible causes. Suggestions range from a ransomware attack to issues stemming from a recent software update: Ingram made its Xvantage Enable AI platform generally available the day the problems began.

One Reddit user claiming to be an Ingram customer described their experience trying to reach the company, saying that the company’s website had been inaccessible since early in the US day and that they were receiving only automated replies to their emails to the company.

After a 30-minute wait on the phone, the user wrote, they finally reached a company representative who told them the entire website and ordering system were down, adding that they believed the company had been “targeted,” and that engineers were working on the issue. With the ordering system down, other Reddit users also expressed concerns about not being able to manage their customers’ services and not being able to manage software licenses or place orders for hardware.

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The US has lifted export restrictions on semiconductor design software to China, reversing a controversial policy imposed just six weeks ago that had threatened to cripple China’s chip design capabilities. 

The three leading semiconductor design software providers, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Germany’s Siemens, announced they had been notified that export license requirements for business in China are no longer in place. 

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Google is adding a new feature that allows system administrators to control when users try out beta features in Workspace.

The features in Workspace typically pop up silently within menus and interfaces, but some companies might want a slower rollout. “As an administrator, you can choose whether your users can try out early general availability Google features or wait until after they’re released by selecting a release track,” Google said in a support document.

There are two paces at which the beta features can be rolled out. A “Rapid Release” track will make new features available to users immediately. A “Scheduled Release” track allows enterprises to roll out new features at a gradual pace. 

The latter will be available starting July 15.

“Your users get new features at least one week after they’re released to Rapid Release domains,” Google said. “This gives you more time to prepare your organization for changes.”

Google isn’t alone in tweaking how updates are rolled out. Microsoft, for instance, has also made changes to how Microsoft 365 support updates are done. The company is encouraging enterprises to adopt more frequent software updates.

Microsoft and Google are rapidly pushing out new generative AI (genAI) features for their productivity suites. Microsoft has close to 1,000 new M365 features under development, with most involving Copilot. For its part, Google maintains a weekly feature release calendar, with most of the new features based on Google’s Gemini AI model.

The companies are hoping to get users on to genAI features quickly and collect feedback from them to develop more functionality and automation tools in the productivity suites.

Google this week also made Gemini available in Google Docs on Android devices in more than 20 languages. The company also released its genAI video tool called Vids to Workspace for Education customers.

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Since its introduction in 2021, Apple has always seen Declarative Device Management (DDM) as the future for device management on its platforms.

At this year’s WWDC, it told us that future has arrived, making DDM the primary framework with which to manage Apple devices and officially confirming plans to deprecate legacy MDM software commands. Bottom line: the transition to the more powerful DDM system is mandatory.

Some of the top-level DDM changes announced at last month’s developer’s event include:

DDM support across all Apple’s platforms, including iOS 26, macOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS26, visionOS26.

DDM’s ability to configure update deferrals, set enforcement deadlines, and to define the window in which updates must take place.

Status channel reporting in Apple’s DDM support, which means devices will report compliance with DDM requests automatically, reducing server-side load.

Underpinning the system is an idea that makes devices fundamentally more autonomous while also making them intrinsically more secure. It turns out the best way to securely manage endpoints is to help them do a better job of managing themselves. It also makes the user experience simpler, bringing the convenience of enterprise-scale protection in a consumer-friendly way.

The philosophy of Declarative Device Management (DDM)

It’s helpful to anyone who uses a managed device to understand the philosophy behind DDM — principally, that it empowers both the device and the end user and does so by simplifying the device management interaction and forcing the device itself to protect itself. More autonomous devices are more resilient devices.

Take a simple software update. MDM might inform a device that it should upgrade and then poll the device frequently to see whether the upgrade has taken place. While it might eventually be done, the device is pretty dumb in the interaction, and users, network access, or other obstacles could get in the way each time the request is made. 

With DDM (and forgive this slightly unnuanced layman’s articulation), the device is instructed to upgrade and will then be required to do so by a specific time. Then, rather than polling the device to nag it to conduct the upgrade, the device itself is forced to regularly report back on whether it has achieved the desired upgraded state. In this model, the device is made aware that it should upgrade and will upgrade itself at the first possible opportunity.

There are several advantages — management is more effective, network demands are reduced, and IT has a much better overview across the state of the corporate fleet. DDM is also more secure, as the onus of reporting turns to the device, which, in conjunction with improvements in identity and zero-trust, means IT enjoys a far more accurate picture of events, and devices become less likely to become attack vectors.

What difference does it make?

Apple’s growing cohort of device management partners (Jamf to Kandji, Mosyle, Fleet, Hexnode, Addigy and beyond) already understood Apple’s intention to move toward DDM, which means they are already introducing support for the improved DDM features Apple plans.

That means users who do migrate to DDM will get access to related enhancements Apple introduced at WWDC, such as version pinning for App Store apps alongside existing software update management. With a nod to the flourishing device management market, Apple is also introducing tools to make it easier to migrate devices between different MDM providers.

All these device management features are being enabled by Apple Business Manager (ABM) and Apple School Manager (ASM), both of which are critical to Apple’s enterprise push, and both of which have been improved drastically to enable new device management features. Organizations can actually prevent personal Apple IDs from signing into corporate-owned devices, even during setup, for example. 

Apple also introduced some new capabilities to help manage devices. These included new APIs to manage new attributes; one useful addition is support for users to request temporary privileges upgrades via their device management system. IT also gains better insight into AppleCare, Managed Apple IDs, and on-device authentication, which in itself promises highly secure yet-friction free device management. We’ve looked at some of these improvements previously. You should also find updates from your chosen device management service provider, which might be of help.

Defense is the sum of all the parts

When combined with enhancements to DDM, you’ll have a system that can securely distribute security, as well as autonomy, to endpoint devices. This effectively supersedes old perimeter defenses by transforming them into a networked, more intelligent system of equally well-defended nodes working together to maintain resilience. 

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Apple’s many AI setbacks are now forcing the company to look at Anthropic and OpenAI for help powering its Siri voice assistant technology, according to a Bloomberg report.

The company has been building out its own AI technology called Apple Intelligence that it intends to use in Siri, but has also reached out to companies to develop alternatives that could be used instead.

Apple previously centered its AI-powered Siri around its home-grown technology. But over the past year or so it has  faced a variety of leadership and technological challenges developing Apple Intelligence, which is based on in-house foundation models. 

The more personalized Siri technology with more personalized AI-driven features is now due in 2026, according to a statement by Apple to Daring Fireball in March. But it was originally showcased last year and expected to be in users’ hands by now.

Siri already integrates technology from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and it is unusual for Apple to turn to outside vendors to build core features for its products.

A previous Bloomberg report in March said Apple did not provide the resources needed for the company to develop an AI-powered Siri. Apple had not focused on AI until OpenAI’s ChatGPT changed the tech landscape in late 2022, which set Apple (and other companies) scrambling.

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In a stunning 99–1 rebuke, the US Senate on Tuesday torched President Donald J. Trump’s push for a 10-year ban on state AI regulations, yanking the controversial provision from his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The lopsided vote delivered a sharp slap to Silicon Valley’s dream of dodging local oversight over the fast-evolving technology.

The proposed measure stated that “no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems.”

Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-TX), and tech companies like Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon had supported a moratorium on state rules to prevent what they consider a fragmented regulatory landscape — arguing it would slow AI adoption and complicate nationwide deployment. Congressional backers had argued that a regulatory ban would give the US a competitive edge over China because there were be fewer hurdles. They have also compared the restriction on state regulations to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which helped the early internet grow.

But there are key differences, according to Travis Hall, director for state engagement for the nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), which last month joined others in signing a letter in opposition to the move. The groups warned that removing AI protections would leave Americans vulnerable to current and emerging AI risks.

The 1990s internet needed unity to thrive, Hall said in reference to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, while AI is a diverse set of tailored technologies — meaning varied regulations won’t splinter it. Hall’s comments came in an earlier interview with Computerworld.

On Tuesday, Alexandra Reeve Givens, the CDT’s president and CEO, said the overwhelming vote to strike the AI moratorium from the budget bill reflects just how unpopular it is among voters and state leaders of both parties. “Americans deserve sensible guardrails as AI develops, and if Congress isn’t prepared to step up to the plate, it shouldn’t prevent states from addressing the challenge,” she said. “We hope that after such a resounding rebuke, Congressional leaders understand that it’s time for them to start treating AI harms with the seriousness they deserve.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN), and Sen. Maria Cantwell, (D-WA), had criticized Congress for inaction on AI deepfakes, discrimination and online privacy issues, saying states have been forced to fill the gap. That prompted praise for Blackburn from an unlikely ally: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who praised her for “leading the charge” to protect states’ rights to regulate AI.

In a failed attempt to rescue the ban, GOP lawmakers tied federal funding for rural broadband projects to AI regulation, allowing subsidies only for states that eased their rules and cut the regulatory moratorium from 10 years to five. That did little to mollify critics, however.

The proposed moratorium was a double-edged sword, according to Abhivyakti Sengar, a research director with the Everest Group. “On one hand, it aims to prevent a fragmented regulatory environment that could stifle innovation; on the other hand, it risks creating a regulatory vacuum, leaving critical decisions about AI governance in the hands of private entities without sufficient oversight,” she had said in an earlier interview.

State and local lawmakers, along with AI safety advocates, had sharply criticized the effort, calling it a favor to an industry seeking to avoid accountability. Led by former Trump press secretary and now Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, most GOP governors sent a letter to Congress opposing it.

Red and blue states alike — including Arkansas, Kentucky, and Montana — have passed bills governing the public sector’s AI procurement and use. Several states, including Colorado, Illinois, and Utah, have consumer protection and civil rights laws governing AI or automated decision systems. This year alone, about two-thirds of US states have proposed or enacted more than 500 laws governing AI technology.

Trump’s budget bill, which mainly consists of spending cuts and tax breaks, was narrowly passed by the Senate in a 51-50 vote with Vice President J.D. Vance breaking the tie. Three Republicans opposed the bill — Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, and Rand Paul of Kentucky. The measure now goes back to the US House of Representatives.

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