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The Supreme Court has overturned a ninety-one-year-old precedent, ruling that President Trump can fire commissioners at the SEC and CFTC essentially at will. The timing is significant — both agencies are in the middle of shaping crypto regulation, and that work now sits under a much shorter political leash.
Shifting to the world of software, a developer has reignited a long-running argument with Microsoft over the support lifecycle for dot NET. The complaint is straightforward: enterprises need stability, and three years of long-term support for an even-numbered release simply is not long enough to justify the cost of repeated upgrades across large organizations.
And finally, Polestar is being shut out of the American market starting two thousand twenty seven under a new Connected Vehicle Rule targeting products with ties to China or Russia. What makes this ruling puzzling is that Volvo, which shares deep ownership roots with Polestar, has been allowed to stay. Critics are already asking how two brands so closely linked can land on opposite sides of the same national security line.
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