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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by agreeing to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate — Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, GOV.UK, The Verge, Ubisoft, GeekWire, Ars Technica, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Activision Blizzard King, The Hill, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, IGN, New York Post, MobileSyrup, Insider, The Register, Bloomberg, SlashGear, GameSpot, PC Gamer, Techaeris, CNBC, BBC, Game Developer, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Fortune, Video Games Chronicle, OnMSFT.com, Coinspeaker, Pocket Gamer.biz, CNN, NBC 7 San Diego, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Wall Street Journal, Watcher Guru, The Guardian, Neowin, Financial Times, KitGuru, Press Start, RTÉ, Wccftech, Gameranx, Stevivor, PCMag, BetaNews, TrueAchievements, Windows Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer.net, Dot Esports, WinBuzzer, Metro.co.uk, Variety, Engadget, Push Square, TechCrunch, Forbes, Silicon Republic, Appuals.com, New York Times, Politico, Gamereactor UK, PC Games Insider, International Business Times, and Blue's News
X: @ubisoft, @stephentotilo, @loudmouthjulia, @samuelstolton, @john_stepek, @stephentotilo, @tomwarren, @lulumeservey, @kellen_browning, @charlieintel, @steffanpowell, @aarmstrong_says, @martinsfp, @tomwarren, @cmagovuk, @fosspatents, @kprescott, @bradsmi, @swiftonsecurity, @lewis_crofts, and @jamesrbuk. LinkedIn: Ronan Scanlan
Forums: r/XboxGamePass, r/xboxone, r/Games, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/PS5, r/wow, r/kindafunny, r/XboxSeriesX, r/heroesofthestorm, and r/technology
| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says that X plans to remove preview headlines from posts linking to articles, so that the previews show only the article's lead image and the URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
More: PCMag, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Politico, The Verge, Engadget, Techaeris, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, TechRadar, Social Media Today, Neowin, Mashable, WinBuzzer, Insider, Livemint, and The Wrap
Mastodon: @JBrodkinWebb@journa.host, @cspam@mastodon.cloud, and @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @matthewstoller, @xdaily, @kyliebytes, @lum_, @lexnfx, @lauraloomer, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @rmac18, @tomcoates, @beijingpalmer, @dandrezner, @pattymo, @mcwm, @jen_mcfadden, @daveleebbg, @kyliebytes, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @edzitron, @iwriteok, @kronykal, @whstancil, @kyliebytes, @jason_kint, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @beijingpalmer, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @erinkwoo, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @jeffsharlet, @kwalkertweets, @kyliebytes, @michaelehayden, @lauraloomer, @mollyjongfast, @petersterne, and @phil_lewis_
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
More: Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Techdirt, Livemint, Business Today, The Economic Times, and Engadget
Forums: r/technology, r/AnythingGoesNews, and r/inthenews
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA — Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.
More: Meta, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, Cybernews.com, 9to5Mac, PetaPixel, Android Headlines, Tech Xplore, Mashable, and Engadget
Mastodon: @gedankenstuecke@scholar …. Bluesky: @andipalmur.bsky.social. X: @metanewsemea and @kpmacleod
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run Python calculations in Azure, first on Windows and then other platforms “at a later date” — Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, PCMag, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Anaconda, Neowin, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and The Windows Club
Mastodon: @MattHodges@mastodon.social. X: @vxunderground, @tobeech, @anacondainc, @oterocarlos, @wynhopkins, @john_lam, @tomwarren, @excelhumor, and @vxunderground. Forums: Hacker News
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ivanti warns of a critical Sentry API authentication bypass flaw that is being exploited in the wild, after another zero-day compromised Norway's government — US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.| Dave James / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered ray reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image for better clarity, available on RTX GPUs — Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology.
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X: @tomwarren and @videocardz
Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/hardware, and r/pcmasterrace
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at the dire state of Americans' privacy, made worse by credit bureaus' data policies; Telegram bots offer huge dossiers on targets for ~$15 in bitcoin — Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus.| CNBC: |
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
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Bluesky: @tristanr.bsky.social. X: @tanayj, @maxwinebach, @arjunkharpal, @ecommerceshares, @_hasanc, @tiernanraytech, @natebecker, @_hasanc, and @maxwinebach. Forums: r/hardware
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard list “pros” beside cons when asked “was slavery beneficial” or “what's better democracy or fascism” — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta plans to roll out a more capable web app for Threads in the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @brianstelter, @0xjessel, @crumbler, and @carnage4life
| New York Times: |
Three Waymo robotaxi rides in San Francisco: two avoided traffic, another didn't, the Waymo One app works like Uber, and the first experience can be confusing — On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco.
More: CNN. X: @benforado, @jcastaneda1212, and @evanhandler
Forums: Hacker News and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Financial Times: |
AlphaSense: almost 40% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings call, but only 16% had AI in the related regulatory filing — S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM agrees to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented services, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum — IBM's consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired …
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, WRAL TechWire, PR Newswire, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google CFO Ruth Porat and other executives have shifted roles or departed for other opportunities in recent months, as the company searches for a new identity — - A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months. — Some have wanted to seek … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation dataset — In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
More: Reuters, Meta, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, AI News, Axios, Hugging Face, Meta, and Rest of World
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: the $3,700, 17" gaming laptop outperforms a pricier Intel Core i9-13980HX-based rival by up to 20% due to AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX3D — AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world's fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.
More: AnandTech, VideoCardz.com, Windows Central, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Wccftech, Guru3D.com, and Notebookcheck
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they are more powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management tools, raised $300M at a $5.8B valuation from Founders Fund and others, down from $8.1B in March 2022 — - Firm raises $300 million from Founders Fund, Thrive, others — Startup valued at $8.1 billion in financing last year
More: TechCrunch
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material taken without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates — Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn.
X: @dlberes, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephfcox
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