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Computers are helping landlords fix price rentals. New law seeks to stop use of software

Price gouging software assists predatory landlords in raising rent for tenants. Proposed legislation would close a loophole and make the practice illegal.

Real estate software, used by many landlords, aggregates data on nearby rents and recommended rent hikes.

The practice impacts all renters, not just those living in buildings where landlords price is fixed with the software, according to Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

“Potentially every renter in Connecticut is paying more, because some significant proportion of property owners and landlords are benefiting by this rental price gouging,” Blumenthal said.

Companies like RealPage and Yardi advertise their products as “property management software.” The software instead helps landlords in Connecticut and across the nation coordinate prices to increase rent in the same market, according to Blumenthal.

The result is less competition and higher rent prices for consumers. RealPage increases rents for client landlords between 5% and 12%, according to Blumenthal.

“It automatically processes data to tell the landlords where rents can be inflated without losing tenants,” Blumenthal said. “The shortage of housing, in effect, is aggravated by this kind of high tech, cartel price fixing when it comes to rents. There’s so much information out there and so many landlords that it would

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Galaxy A35 gets a software update less than a week after launch

The Galaxy A35, along with the Galaxy A55, is the first mid-range Samsung phone that runs Android 14 and One UI 6.1 out of the box. It is eligible for four major OS upgrades and security updates for five years, and software support for the phone is off to a good start.

The Galaxy A35 was announced and went on sale in some markets on Monday, March 11, and just three days later, it is already getting its first software update. It’s unclear how widely it is available, however. As of March 14, we can only confirm that it has been released in India.

The update comes with the firmware version A356XXU1AXBB, and while it’s not just a security update, we don’t know what it brings to the phone as the changelog doesn’t include any specifics. But we can assume that the update doesn’t do much, as it is only around 270MB in size.

It even lacks the March 2024 security patch. The A35 launched with the February security patch preinstalled, and that won’t change once the update in question has been installed on the phone.

Since the Galaxy A35 launched less than a week ago, there probably aren’t a

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