The EU is set to decide within weeks if Apple Maps and Ads now qualify for more stringent antitrust remedial measures under the bloc's expansive Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Concurrently, a security researcher believes Apple's Podcasts app might be ripe for enabling malicious vectors.

The EU to decide within 45 days if Apple Maps and Ads qualify for a "gateway" designation

Do note that the EU's "gatekeeper" designation applies to entities that possess enough market dominance and heft to block competition.

The designation requires an expansive qualifying criteria :

A market capitalization of 75 billion euros ($79 billion) or EU-derived revenues of at least 7.5 billion euros in each of the last 3 business years.

45 million monthly active end users and over 10,000 yearly active busine

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