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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.
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X: @ubisoft, @lulumeservey, @kellen_browning, @charlieintel, @steffanpowell, @aarmstrong_says, @martinsfp, @tomwarren, @cmagovuk, @fosspatents, @kprescott, @bradsmi, @swiftonsecurity, @lewis_crofts, and @jamesrbuk
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 …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining the risks in China, a critical market that accounted for ~24% of its sales in the year to March — - Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow
More: Financial Times, Fortune, The Economic Times, and Livemint
| 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.| 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 … | Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company … | 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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| 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: Reuters, PR Newswire, CNBC, WRAL TechWire, and Wall Street Journal. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange
| New York Times: |
Riding in three Waymo taxis in San Francisco finds two avoided traffic while another didn't, the 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: ~40% of companies in the S&P 500 mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings calls, but only 16% mentioned AI in their regulatory filings — S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology| 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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: the $3.7K, 17" gaming laptop outperforms a pricier Intel-powered rival by up to 20% due to its stellar AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D chip — AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world's fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.
More: HotHardware, Windows Central, AnandTech, Dexerto, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, and Notebookcheck
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, vs. ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, and awaits Beijing's approval to roll out its ChatGPT rival — - The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales — It's riding a bounce-back in advertising from Covid depths
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, Baidu Inc, and Tech in Asia
| 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 data set — In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
More: Meta, Reuters, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Axios, AI News, Hugging Face, Meta, and Rest of World
| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
China's metaverse proposals at the UN's ITU include a Digital Identity System, akin to the country's social credit system, that experts say may violate privacy — China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear …
More: PCMag, Politico, CryptoPotato, and Protos
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