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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 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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.

Random Access Memory From a Rotating Drum in a Bendix G15

When it’s the 1950s and you are tasked to design a computer system that features not only CPU registers but also a certain amount of RAM, you do not have a lot of options. At this point in time, discrete logic was the rule, and magnetic core memory still fairly new and rather expensive. This

OnePlus seems to be testing several generative AI-powered tools

OnePlus is surveying users in North America, Europe, and India to ask about the usefulness of new generative AI tools. The AI solutions include a video creation app, an education app, a caption generator, and more. OnePlus’ research arm has also posted descriptions and screenshots of these new generative AI tools in the survey. Generative

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 (Financial Times)

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

Apple Watch X: Rumors, specs, release date, price, and more

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple’s smartwatch line has enjoyed popularity for nearly a decade, and the company is ready to celebrate its success. Rumors may be sparse but its clear an Apple Watch X is on its way. Find out everything we know about the upcoming special edition device. Will there be an

The OnePlus 12 could come with more RAM than most of us need on a phone

Credit: OnLeaks via Smartprix New leaks suggest that the OnePlus 12 could come with 16GB and 24GB RAM variants, with possibly no lower RAM variants. Further, the phone could come with high-frequency PWM dimming tech on its 2K resolution display. OnePlus has always been known for delivering powerful flagship Android phones. So when the leak

A smarter way to bring data protection to SSD-based applications

NVMe SSDs are seeing rapid adoption in the cloud, enterprise data centers, and edge computing for data-intensive applications such as relational databases and NoSQL environments. However, the data in these SSDs is temporary and will persist only during the lifetime of their associated virtual machine instances. NVMe SSD storage is ephemeral for all of the

The digital divide, rural businesses, and cloud computing

Yet another study tells us what most of us already know: Access to cloud services is a business necessity now. However, for cloud resources, you need high-speed internet access, and many businesses still need help with that. Actually, this new study from Penn State and the National Science Foundation is worth the time to read it. The

Where Did Your PCB Go Wrong? KiRI knows

When working on a PCB design in KiCad, it’s helpful that the files are all text and can easily be checked into Git or other source control. However, stepping back through the revisions to determine where precisely a trace got routed wrong can be tricky. [Leandro] started with a simple script that exported the KiCad

A look at Worldcoin from a privacy-skeptical point of view, including likely risks and how the project doesn’t link users’ transaction data with its ID database (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts …)

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at Worldcoin from a privacy-skeptical point of view, including likely risks and how the project doesn’t link users’ transaction data with its ID database — Recently a reader wrote in and asked if I would look at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, presumably to give thoughts

Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft. The transfer of rights is designed to appease regulators in the UK that are concerned about the impact Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion deal will have on

Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more (Lacey Rose/The Hollywood Reporter)

Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter: Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more — The most powerful people in podcasting weigh in with their predictions, plans and biggest pet peeves.

This phone will let you easily adjust the CPU clock speed, no root needed

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The upcoming Realme GT5 phone will let users adjust CPU clock speeds via a control panel. This could be the first time a smartphone brand lets users directly adjust CPU speeds out-of-the-box. Realme has confirmed that it will be launching the Realme GT5 smartphone soon, and it’s looking like

Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 tips and tricks: Get more from your device

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Samsung smartwatches offer a well-rounded feature set with plenty of tools for all types of users. If you’ve recently unpacked the newest model, we recommend making some key adjustments. Scroll our top Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series tips and tricks to get the most out of your new wearable. Maximize your

Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more (Lacey Rose/The Hollywood Reporter)

‘Immortals of Aveum’ Is a Shooter That Swaps Gunfire for Spell-Casting

One of the year’s most anticipated releases, out now from Ascendant Studios, is standard war fantasy**—**but a stable of veteran FPS developers gives this mage-powered shooter an edge.

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 invades user privacy (Gian Volpicelli/Politico)

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 invades user privacy — China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear …

X reportedly tests removing headlines from links to news articles

The Verge A report from Fortune claims that X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has tested stripping headlines from articles shared on the site. Posts would only include the lead image and the URL, unless the person or publisher posting the link adds their own text, per materials the outlet viewed. The

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 invades user privacy (Gian Volpicelli/Politico)

Looking Back On 30 Years of Debian

The early history of Linux is a rather murky period to most, long before the era of glitzy marketing and proclamations of ‘the Linux desktop’ being the next hot thing. This was also the era when the first Linux distributions were born, as the Linux kernel never came as a whole OS package – unlike

Nvidia’s A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US export rules, have seen huge demand as they more powerful than anything else before 2023 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Nvidia’s A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US export rules, have seen huge demand as they more powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia’s processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives

Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles, so that posts with article links display only the image and the URL (Kylie Robison/Fortune)

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles, so that posts with article links display only the 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 …

A look at Google executives like CFO Ruth Porat who have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the company searches for its own identity (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: A look at Google executives like CFO Ruth Porat who have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the company searches for its own identity — – A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months. — Some have wanted to seek

Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization (Avram Piltch/Tom’s Hardware)

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 …

Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles so that posts with links display only the article’s image and URL (Kylie Robison/Fortune)

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles so that posts with links display only the article’s image and 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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