Tech Meme

Derek Strickland / TweakTown: FTC v. Microsoft: in April 2022, Xbox Game Pass may have generated around $231.5M in revenue, or $9.26 per subscription, and most subscribers pay full price  —  Microsoft reveals more details about how much money Xbox Game Pass actually makes.  —  VIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How the UK CMA blocking Microsoft’s Activision deal, at odds with the US and the EU, shows its newfound influence after Brexit and forced a revised proposal  —  When Sarah Cardell announced in August that a takeover she had blocked just four months earlier would be investigated afresh … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: Okta CSO David Bradbury says five client companies, including MGM and Caesars, were hacked via help desk calls by the ALPHV and Scattered Spider groups  —  Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International (MGM.N) and Caesars Entertainment (CZR.O) in recent weeks also broke … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok launches a tool to let creators label their AI-generated content and plans to test other ways of labeling such content automatically  —  As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there’s also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google updates Bard to use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive, not just the web, to help find and summarize emails, highlight points in a document, and more  —  Google’s Bard AI chatbot is no longer limited to pulling answers from just the web — it can now scan your Gmail, Docs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at ShadowDragon, which offers social media surveillance tools that gather data from games and more, used by ICE, the State Department, the DEA, and more  —  ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Panos Panay’s impact on Microsoft and Surface, paving the way for OEMs to focus on quality 2-in-1s, and the executives taking over parts of his role  —  Panos Panay has always been the force behind Microsoft’s Surface line.  He helped bring Surface to life as a secret project more than 10 years ago. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zen Soo / Associated Press: After Hong Kong police arrested six following allegations of fraud at unlicensed crypto exchange JPEX, the government plans to tighten its crypto regulations  —  Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that the territory will tighten regulation of digital assets after police arrested six people following allegations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft’s gaming plans for 2028, aiming for “full convergence” of its cloud platform and hardware to deliver “cloud hybrid games”  —  The documents may also reveal Microsoft’s far future plans for 2028 — by which the company believed it could achieve … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft’s gaming plans to 2028, aiming for a “full convergence” of its cloud platform and hardware to deliver “cloud hybrid games”  —  The documents may also reveal Microsoft’s far future plans for 2028 — by which the company believed it could achieve … Lees verder op Tech Meme