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The UK CMA’s objection to Microsoft’s Activision deal focuses on the nascent cloud gaming market, a departure from regulators focusing on mature markets (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: The UK CMA’s objection to Microsoft’s Activision deal focuses on the nascent cloud gaming market, a departure from regulators focusing on mature markets — UK regulators blocked Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. over concerns it would harm competition in cloud gaming …

An analysis of Baidu, Bilibili, Bing, Douyin, Weibo, and other Chinese search platforms finds 60K censorship rules, implemented differently by each service (Jeffrey Knockel/The Citizen Lab)

Jeffrey Knockel / The Citizen Lab: An analysis of Baidu, Bilibili, Bing, Douyin, Weibo, and other Chinese search platforms finds 60K censorship rules, implemented differently by each service — This report has an accompanying FAQ. — Key findings — Across eight China-accessible search platforms analyzed — Baidu …

Samsung wants Samsung to start using Samsung chips in Galaxy flagships again

Credit: Samsung Exynos Samsung’s chip division is working on getting Exynos chips back into Galaxy S series flagships. This could result in Exynos variants of the Galaxy S24 series. Rumors suggest that the base Galaxy S24 model would have an Exynos version. Samsung ditched Exynos chips for the Galaxy S23 lineup this year, signaling that

Sonos Era 300 review: So long HomePod

The Sonos Era 300 is one of the most impressive smart speakers that you can buy, easily beating out the Apple HomePod as an audio player. It may not boast Siri support, but it makes up for it with some truly epic features – and excellent Spatial Audio.

Apple working on major Apple Watch sync upgrade for Mac and iPad, ending iPhone reliance

A new report claims Apple is working on plans to sync Apple Watch with multiple devices including Mac and iPad.

A profile of ASML, the most valuable tech company in Europe, as the US-China chip war escalates; ASML’s next apartment-sized machine ships in 2025 for $380M+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A profile of ASML, the most valuable tech company in Europe, as the US-China chip war escalates; ASML’s next apartment-sized machine ships in 2025 for $380M+ — In 1984, Martin van den Brink, a young Dutch engineer, joined a newly created venture in a quiet corner of the Netherlands.

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race.

iPadOS 17 could have one more thing up its sleeve – bigger iPads for 2024

According to rumors, Apple is making sure iPadOS 17 works with bigger iPads, due for release in 2024.

Is An ADS-B Receiver The Solution For Drone Pilots?

Over the years here at Hackaday, we’ve covered a range of stories about the ongoing panic surrounding drone flights. From plastic bags reported as drone incidents through to airports closed with no evidence of drones being involved, it’s clear that drone fliers are an embattled group facing a legal and aeronautical establishment that seems to

Latest Pixel 7a spec leak fills in all the blanks

Credit: WinFuture/Google A leak from a reputed tipster puts together all the expected specifications for the Google Pixel 7a. Highlights for the Pixel 7a are expected to be the Tensor G2 chip, improved display, and camera hardware. We’re gearing up for the imminent launch of the Google Pixel 7a, possibly at Google I/O 2023. The

Versatile DRAM Board Adds Memory to Any Heathkit H8 Variant

Ask anyone to name a first-generation home computer from the 1970s, and they’ll probably mention the likes of the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080. But those iconic machines weren’t the only options available to hobbyists back in the day: Heathkit, famous for its extensive range of electronic devices sold in kit form, jumped on the

The 16 best Instagram alternatives for photographers, video sharing, and more

Whether it’s the constant shift toward Reels content, Meta’s shaky history with data protection, or just the desire for something new, millions of people around the world are turning to Instagram alternatives for their social fix. Some of these apps attempt to copy the photo-feed-only Instagram of old, and others offer features above and beyond

London-based Standard Chartered subsidiary Zodia, which provides custody services for crypto assets, raised a $36M Series A led by Japan’s SBI Holdings (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: London-based Standard Chartered subsidiary Zodia, which provides custody services for crypto assets, raised a $36M Series A led by Japan’s SBI Holdings — Standard Chartered’s spin-off crypto custodial unit Zodia Custody Ltd. closed $36 million in new funding as part of a round led by Japan’s SBI Holdings …

How to use request decompression in ASP.NET Core 7

Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow you to easily create RESTful APIs with minimal code and configuration. No matter what type of API we build, it is always important to minimize the amount of data transferred over the network, which saves bandwidth and improves the responsiveness of the app. We do this by compressing the

Create a free data dictionary with R

Do you have data sets scattered all over the place: multiple local folders, Git repos, cloud services, databases? Is it sometimes difficult to remember which data set contains what, and where they’re all stored? Thanks to the pointblank R package, you can document your data sets via R scripts in a report that not only

Microsoft’s Brad Smith says the CMA blocking the Activision deal was “probably the darkest day in our four decades” in the UK and will be “bad for Britain” (BBC)

BBC: Microsoft’s Brad Smith says the CMA blocking the Activision deal was “probably the darkest day in our four decades” in the UK and will be “bad for Britain” — Microsoft’s president has attacked the UK after it was blocked from buying US gaming firm Activision …

Samsung’s loses billions on chips as overall profits decline 95 percent

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung’s memory chip business just had a terrible quarter, as falling demand and high inventories contributed to a 4.58 trillion won (around $3.4 billion) loss from the division, Bloomberg reports. The loss at the unit, which CNBC reports is typically its largest profit driver, contributed to Samsung’s quarterly

A California judge tentatively rules Elon Musk must testify about his Autopilot statements, after Musk’s lawyers argued he is a subject of many deepfake videos (Reuters)

Reuters: A California judge tentatively rules Elon Musk must testify about his Autopilot statements, after Musk’s lawyers argued he is a subject of many deepfake videos — A California judge on Wednesday ordered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding …

Samsung reports Q1 operating profit down 95% YoY to ~$478.6M, its lowest since 2009, and revenue down 18% YoY to ~$47.6B; its chip division reported ~$3.4B loss (Reuters)

Reuters: Samsung reports Q1 operating profit down 95% YoY to ~$478.6M, its lowest since 2009, and revenue down 18% YoY to ~$47.6B; its chip division reported ~$3.4B loss — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) flagged a gradual recovery for chips in the second half of the year …

Tactile Feedback in VR, No Cumbersome Gloves Or Motors Required

This clever research from the University of Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab demonstrates a fascinating way to let users “feel” objects in VR, without anything getting in the way of using one’s hands and fingers normally. Certainly, the picture here shows hands with a device attached to them, but look closely and you’ll see that

Leak: The Asus ROG Ally will cost $699.99 with an AMD Z1 Extreme

Image: Asus Sure, Asus can build a faster Steam Deck-like handheld gaming PC, but there’s no way it could compete with Valve on price, right? Guess again. The higher-end Asus ROG Ally will apparently cost just $699.99. That’s for the model with an AMD Z1 Extreme chip, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD —

Katmai, which is developing browser-based 3D video conferencing tech for virtual office spaces, raised a $22M Series A led by Starr Insurance Companies (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Katmai, which is developing browser-based 3D video conferencing tech for virtual office spaces, raised a $22M Series A led by Starr Insurance Companies — Katmai has raised $22 million for its ew take on remote work with a new 3D virtual office platform. — Katmai is emerging from stealth today …

Japan plans to provide an additional $1.94B in assistance to Rapidus, a government-backed chip consortium that is working with IBM to mass produce 2nm chips (Riho Nagao/Nikkei Asia)

Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: Japan plans to provide an additional $1.94B in assistance to Rapidus, a government-backed chip consortium that is working with IBM to mass produce 2nm chips — Money going to R&D, including dispatching of engineers to IBM — Rapidus is a key piece of Japan’s efforts to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing

Law experts say Twitter is breaching US laws prohibiting false advertising by implying that some celebrities paid for Blue when they haven’t paid for it (Chris Stokel-Walker/Wired)

Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: Law experts say Twitter is breaching US laws prohibiting false advertising by implying that some celebrities paid for Blue when they haven’t paid for it — The law says you can’t falsely claim that celebrities are paying for Twitter Blue. — Twitter’s verification system debacle …

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visualization of Gravity as a Form of Acceleration

Although we take a lot of scientific knowledge for granted today, each of the basics – whether it be about light, gravity, mass or the shape of the Earth – had to be theorized and experimentally verified. In the case of gravity, as far back as around 500 BCE the Ionian Greek philosopher Heraclitus theorized

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