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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 …
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| Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: |
Sony rolls out its GT Sophy AI to Gran Turismo 7, an experiment announced in February 2022, letting players race against Sophy in GT Sophy Race Together mode — GT Sophy beat the world's best players in 2022; now you can race it yourself. — Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital …
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A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from an Islamic State attack in Paris in 2015, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday — By Robert Barnes and Cat Zakrzewski — Updated just now — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
A look at Apple's smartphone dominance among Gen Z, who make up an estimated 34% of all 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 obtained login credentials for customer support services used by Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Goldman, BMW, and others — In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login credentials for data centers …
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Apple launches an unlisted Car Key Tests app on the App Store, letting manufacturers test integration with Apple's Car Key feature, announced in July 2020 — Apple's Car Key feature was originally announced in July 2020 as a way to unlock your car using the Wallet app on your iPhone.| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney “misbehaving” and being “so rude”, suggesting the company knew about its quirks — A new discovery that makes a curious story a whole lot more curious — We all know by now just how off the rails Bing can get.
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Sources: Amazon's stock decline over the past year has roiled its stock-heavy compensation plans, causing pay in 2023 to drop by 15%-50% below Amazon's targets — Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Building on ForcedEntry, Trellix researchers find now-fixed bugs in iOS and macOS, which focus on NSPredicate and could 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.
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| Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.2, the first mainstream Linux kernel to support Apple's M1 chips, which is expected to become Ubuntu 23.04's default kernel — Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, “Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release …
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary onto US agreements — Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company's Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
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