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Microsoft completes its Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and the US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO through 2023 — The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it's official.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's deal with Ubisoft, which now gets the cloud gaming rights for Call of Duty and current Activision games outside of the EU for 15 years — Microsoft's giant Activision Blizzard deal is complete, and it means Ubisoft has now obtained cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft has spent $170B+ on acquisitions under Satya Nadella, per Dealogic, helping to nearly triple revenue and become central in sectors like AI and gaming — Companies completed the deal—the largest in Microsoft's nearly 50-year history—after regulators' concerns were addressed
More: New York Times, Cointelegraph, and Sports Business Journal
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
The US FTC says it remains focused on its appeal opposing Microsoft's acquisition of Activision and will “assess” the company's cloud gaming deal with Ubisoft — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Friday it remained focused on its appeal opposing Xbox maker Microsoft's …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which was exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching every web server before the problem can be eradicated — Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.| Jo Marchant / Nature: |
A student wins a contest to read the text inside a carbonized Roman scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79, using an ML algorithm — A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll …
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| New York Times: |
As China-linked Bitcoin mines open across the US, officials raise national security concerns, like about a Wyoming mine that is close to a nuclear missile base — Microsoft reported one site in Wyoming because of its proximity to a data center and nuclear missile base.| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US NLRB alleges that X illegally fired an employee in November 2022 in retaliation for her posts challenging the company's RTO policy — Elon Musk's X Corp. illegally fired an employee in retaliation for her internet posts challenging its return-to-office policy …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nvidia plans to raise the price of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service in Canada and some European countries in November, citing “increased operational costs” — Nvidia GeForce Now is perhaps the best cloud gaming service in the wake of Google Stadia's death (and even before that) …
More: NVIDIA Support, Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA, Cloudy.Games, and The Verge
| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
A look at TSMC's Open Innovation Platform, which debuted in 2008 and now involves tens of companies that help TSMC's clients build better chips more efficiently — This year TSMC is commemorating 15 years of its Open Innovation Platform, a multi-faceted program that brings together the foundry's suppliers … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
A California judge allows a group of lawsuits against Meta and others alleging social media is addictive for children to proceed based on a negligence claim — - California state judge allows negligence claim to proceed — Judge dismisses seven other claims filed by kids and parents
More: Bloomberg Law and San Francisco Chronicle
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the efforts of companies and governments to build their own satellite networks that can deliver internet connectivity anywhere on Earth — Elon Musk's Starlink may soon face new competition from satellite companies offering internet service, available from anywhere on Earth where you can see the sky
More: PCMag, Singularity Hub, ExtremeTech, Fierce Wireless, Pocket-lint, DigiTimes, Engadget, BigTechWire, and TechRadar
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