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The UK CMA opens an in-depth investigation into Adobe’s $20B Figma deal after Adobe would not offer any remedies to CMA concerns, setting a December 27 deadline (Reuters)

Reuters: The UK CMA opens an in-depth investigation into Adobe’s $20B Figma deal after Adobe would not offer any remedies to CMA concerns, setting a December 27 deadline — Britain’s antitrust regulator on Thursday announced an in-depth probe of Adobe’s (ADBE.O) $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma …

The Last of Us finally works on Steam Deck — with worse-than-PS3 level graphics

The Last of Us running on a Steam Deck. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge The Last of Us Part I arrived on PC this March as an embarrassing, broken PC port of a game, even on high-end machines. When I tried it on my Steam Deck handheld, the game was utterly unplayable

The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School

How much truth and healing can forensic tech really bring? On the sites of Native American tragedies, Marsha Small has made it her life’s mission to find out.

Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension — The macOS Sonoma update that is in testing allows Mac owners who opt to use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or another browser to use Apple’s Password Manager for filling

Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information — The agency’s demand for OpenAI’s documents about AI risks mark the company’s greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date

Prime Day’s over, but the MacBook deal of the year remains

The MacBook Air M1 receives a huge discount, for the new lowest price ever on what is still an epic laptop.

Build custom actions for Power Automate for Windows

Microsoft’s Power Platform is usually thought of as a cloud-hosted low-code platform. That’s only partly true, as its process automation tool, Power Automate, also has a desktop component. Bundled with Windows 11, Power Automate for Windows is designed to wrap low-code workflows around your desktop applications, in much the same way as the cloud tooling

Visual Studio Code stabilizes Remote Tunnels to WSL

Visual Studio Code 1.80, the latest edition of the popular code editor from Microsoft, stabilizes Remote Tunnels to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) instances. Remote Tunnels lets you connect securely to a remote machine from a VS Code client without requiring SSH. Stabilization of the previously previewed capability to connect to WSL over Remote Tunnels

Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan — Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …

Commission-free investing platform Public.com launches in the UK, the Robinhood rival’s first expansion outside the US, letting investors trade 5K+ US stocks (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Commission-free investing platform Public.com launches in the UK, the Robinhood rival’s first expansion outside the US, letting investors trade 5K+ US stocks — Commission-free investing platform Public.com is launching in the UK, marking the Robinhood rival’s first expansion outside its American home market.

UNESCO calls for regulation of AI-based neurotechnology; research shows private investments in Neuralink and others reached $7.3B in 2020, up ~20x since 2010 (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: UNESCO calls for regulation of AI-based neurotechnology; research shows private investments in Neuralink and others reached $7.3B in 2020, up ~20x since 2010 — Manipulation of brain signals advancing so fast it threatens human rights, warns UN body — Neurotechnology is advancing so fast …

Now Google’s Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts

Illustration: The Verge Google is adding some new features to its Bard AI chatbot, including the ability for Bard to speak its answers to you and for it to respond to prompts that also include images. The chatbot is also now available in much of the world, including the EU. In a blog post, Google

Google Bard can now talk out loud and is available across Europe

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Bard is now available in most of the world. Bard now supports over 40 languages. Bard is getting a handful of new features to help provide more customized responses and boost productivity. When Google Bard launched earlier this year, it was limited to a small number of markets.

iOS 17 finally grabs two long-time Android features, and more

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The first public beta of iOS 17 has been released, and it includes new features that weren’t disclosed in the main iOS 17 keynote announcement. It finally adds in features like full-page screenshots and bilingual Siri, which have been available on competitor platforms for a while. Other new features

Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips — Japan electronics giant to ramp up live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft — Sony is aiming for 60% of game development costs …

Poll: How often do you review and uninstall unused apps from your phone

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Do you like to keep a clean house? By that we mean, is your phone cluttered with apps you don’t use seldom or not at all? Or are you someone who regularly uninstalls unused apps?

Recreating The Golden Era of Cable TV

Fewer and fewer people have cable TV subscriptions these days, due to a combination of poor business practices by cable companies and the availability of alternatives to cable such as various streaming platforms. But before the rise of the Internet that enabled these alternatives, there was a short period of time where there were higher-quality

Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features — Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users — Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say

JD.com unveils ChatRhino LLM for enterprise use and plans to introduce the tool internally in ecommerce and other areas before expanding to clients in H1 2024 (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: JD.com unveils ChatRhino LLM for enterprise use and plans to introduce the tool internally in ecommerce and other areas before expanding to clients in H1 2024 — China’s second-largest e-commerce platform JD.com Inc. unveiled a large language model for enterprise use, joining domestic peers …

ASUS confirms ROG Ally microSD reader defect: Everything you need to know

Credit: Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The Steam Deck still rules the roost as far as PC-based gaming handhelds go, but the ASUS ROG Ally is its biggest challenge to date. It hasn’t been a perfect launch for ASUS, though, and reports of microSD card issues popped up shortly after the release. Now, the Taiwanese

Google Bard gets bevy of new features as it opens up to more regions

Increasing speed limits can lead to more crashes and deaths, AAA finds

Photo by Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images Raising speed limits leads to more frequent car crashes, while lowering them leads to fewer crashes, a new analysis by AAA concludes. It’s the kind of conclusion that seems obvious on the surface but still needs to be highlighted given how many states seem convinced that raising speed

Experts in Taiwan worry China could influence TikTok content ahead of the presidential election in January 2024; officials banned TikTok from government devices (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Experts in Taiwan worry China could influence TikTok content ahead of the presidential election in January 2024; officials banned TikTok from government devices — Scroll through TikTok in Taiwan, and you’ll find a rolling stream of videos covering the heated campaign for next January’s presidential election.

The best Amazon Prime Day deals under $100

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge There are many, many deals going on during Amazon Prime Day, even now well into day two. But these sub-$100 deals right here are the Goldilocks of Prime Day deals — not too pricey and not too cheap. They’re that perfect balance of a good value that’s

VPN by Google One will no longer place you in Texas if you live in New York

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority VPN By Google One is getting a new feature to improve your experience on location-based apps and websites. It will soon set your IP location to a local region instead of a broader region by default. You’ll still have the option to select the latter for more privacy. VPN

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