Tech Industry News Tidbits

[Sushubh]

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

Existing licensees are grandfathered.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Source

No more Wireguard app updates on Windows.

 

[honey01]

Google will now punish websites that hijack the back button to serve you ads

Google said it has noticed a sharp rise in websites hijacking the back button to show ads when users press it, so it will now start penalizing such sites.

www.neowin.net

Another annoyance.. some websites take you back to the homepage instead of the previously opened page of their own site!

 

[Sushubh]

New EU Battery Regulation Challenges Device Makers to Boost Repairability - Bloomberg

remains to be seen how Apple tackles this one.