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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox  —  Microsoft's deal with Nintendo to bring “Call of Duty” games to Nintendo systems — if Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now and promises to offer Activision Blizzard games on the cloud service if the acquisition closes  —  Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service.  Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today …
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing  —  Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories from people who only care about “making a quick buck”  —  Clarkesworld speculates that people are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word for accepted stories.
Washington Post:
A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses  —  Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.
Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust:
A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney as “misbehaving” and being “so rude”, suggesting the company knew about its issues
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
A look at Apple's smartphone dominance among Gen Z in the US, who make up an estimated 34% of US iPhone owners, as Samsung and Android struggle against iMessage  —  Younger Americans prefer an iPhone over Android by huge margins, creating unusual pressure over how they communicate
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Cybersecurity company Resecurity says hackers stole login credentials to customer support websites used by Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Huawei, Microsoft, and others  —  In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login credentials for data centers …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Building on ForcedEntry, Trellix researchers find now-fixed iOS and macOS bugs related to NSPredicate that could have let attackers bypass Apple's sandbox  —  Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people's messages, photos, and call history.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database without a password for two weeks that had years' worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info  —  A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password  —  The U.S. Department of Defense secured …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok plans to let more researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access “public, anonymized” data through its API, after testing access in November 2022  —  TikTok will let researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access public data, the company announced today …
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Microsoft partners with Web3 infrastructure startup Ankr to offer a blockchain node service on Azure's marketplace to help users deploy smart contracts and more  —  - Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Ankr to offer a blockchain node service for enterprise clients.

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From Mediagazer

Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M

Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination

The Colorado Sun:
The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building

More News

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 75% YoY to $629M, vs. $590M est., a $557M net loss, and 8.3M monthly transacting users, vs. 8.22M est. and down from 8.5M in Q3
Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The European Commission plans to propose a law in Q2 2023 aimed at improving cooperation between national regulators investigating cross-border GDPR violations
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
Sony adds GT Sophy Race Together mode to Gran Turismo 7, letting players race against its GT Sophy AI experiment announced in February 2022, through March 2023
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon's stock decline over the past year has roiled the company's stock-heavy compensation plan, causing 2023 pay to be 15%-50% below Amazon's targets

Earlier Picks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India and Singapore link their UPI and PayNow digital payment systems to enable instant transfers between the two countries, initially capped at S$1,000 per day
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.2, the first mainstream Linux kernel to support Apple's M1 chips, expected to become Ubuntu 23.04's default kernel
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