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Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC’s rules do not permit” it (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC’s rules do not permit” it  —  AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.

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China approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

Rebekah Valentine / IGN: China approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan  —  Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far.  —  China’s State Administration has approved Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion acquisition …

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Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued yet positive mood, and no talks of moonshots (Vildana Hajric/Bloomberg)

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued yet positive mood, and no talks of moonshots  —  It turns out that the Bitcoin faithful still like to party even after the annus horribilis that shook the digital-asset world in

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China approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

Rebekah Valentine / IGN: China approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan  —  Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far.  —  China’s State Administration has approved Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion acquisition …

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Prompt Injection: An AI-Targeted Attack

For a brief window of time in the mid-2010s, a fairly common joke was to send voice commands to Alexa or other assistant devices over video. Late-night hosts and others would purposefully attempt to activate voice assistants like these en masse and get them to do ridiculous things. This isn’t quite as common of a

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How to back up your text messages

While much of the world relies on WhatsApp these days, SMS text messaging is still a primary communication tool in the US. That means you’re likely to have plenty of important text messages that you wouldn’t want to lose in the event of your phone going missing. Fortunately, there’s more than one way to back

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After Niantic’s latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company’s metaverse games struggling to find an audience (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: After Niantic’s latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company’s metaverse games struggling to find an audience  —  Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go …

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A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn’s transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn’s transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1  —  On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog  —  William Grace-Hunter doesn’t exist, though this may not be immediately obvious from his LinkedIn profile.

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