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Apple ditches SIM cards: Apple held its annual iPhone launch event on Wednesday this week and, as usual, the company announced refreshes to several product lines. While the new iPhone 14 has a redesigned screen that replaces the infamous notch with something called the “dynamic island,” the most important change – at least for Canadians – is Apple’s ditching of the physical SIM card in favour of its digital counterpart, the eSIM. The eSIM is a more practical, elegant and easier method of switching wireless providers since no physical chip is needed – the change is made entirely through software. But Canada’s carriers notoriously don’t like to make switching easy for their customers, which is why this move by Apple is U.S.-only for now.

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"The companies, including Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Videotron and others"

Small ISPs warned the CRTC and the federal government 'repeatedly' they can’t do business under the current system

Bell puts another nail in indie ISP coffin: The snapping up of independent internet service providers continues because of those anti-consumer CRTC decisions, with Bell announcing that it is buying Distributel. One of the largest remaining indies, Distributel’s purchase follows similar acquisitions by Bell earlier this year of Quebec’s EBox, and VMedia by Quebecor. The Distributel deal appears to have taken Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne by surprise, though indie ISPs and consumer advocates have been warning him for months that competitive internet providers are at risk.

CRTC chair gets job extension: The federal government has extended Ian Scott’s term as CRTC chair for at least four months despite controversy over his alleged bias for big telecom companies and his anti-consumer decisions. The government is having difficulty finding a suitable replacement, according to the National Post, because the next chair will need expertise with internet platforms as well as traditional telecom and broadcasting.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) confirmed that it accidentally exposed the confidential data of about 120,000 individuals on its website. The information has since been removed.

Codogno, a town in Italy's north, is introducing a social credit style app, local authorities have announced. It will be happening via the EcoAttivi app, to be used "to certify virtuous behavior" via geo-localization and QR codes.

The motion, filed Friday, also revealed that Lich has two other bank accounts with over $1.3 million received as donations to the protest that were frozen under the Emergencies Act.