Microsoft’s purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard won final approval Friday from Britain’s competition watchdog, reversing its earlier decision to block the $69 billion gaming deal and removing the final obstacle for one of the largest tech transactions in history.
The Xbox maker’s quest to acquire Activision — maker of other blockbuster games like Candy Crush, World of Warcraft, Diablo and Overwatch — could close i
Most of the press surrounding the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been focused on its impact on VLOPs or “very large online platforms.” And indeed, platforms like Amazon, Alibaba Express, Facebook, Google, and the like bear the greatest potential liabilities under the law. But what’s forgotten most of the time in that the DSA affects your own brand experience as well.
If your brand advertises online or runs a small online store, your business will be
Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, a heated debate has centered on its potential benefits and pitfalls for students. As educators worry students could use artificial intelligence tools to cheat, a new survey makes clear its impact on young people: They’re getting into trouble.
Half of teachers say they know a student at their school who was disciplined or faced negative consequences for using—or being accused of using—generative artificial intell
A few years ago, Nick Milo was using a folder full of plain text files for notes when he found out about Obsidian.
The app had just launched in beta, and was getting some buzz on a productivity forum that Milo liked to frequent. Obsidian gave structure to text files in a way that resembled more popular apps such as Notion and Evernote, and it didn’t take long for him to get hooked on the app.
“Immediately, I recognized that they had cracked the code,”
A week ago, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren signed as cosponsor of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has a good chance of becoming law. The purpose of this bill is to address the youth mental health crisis that many attribute to the use of social media.
Among other proposed measures, KOSA’s duty of care would require social media platforms to design their products and services to prevent and miti
Cyberattacks are becoming more prevalent in 2023—and it’s no longer a matter of whether this year will record a record number of data breaches, it’s more a question of how high that number will be.
As of the end of September, corporations had reported 2,116 data compromises for the year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). That’s already higher than the previous annual record of 1,862, set in 2021. And the fourth quarter is already off
Key witness Caroline Ellison wrapped up her three-day testimony against her former boyfriend and boss Sam Bankman-Fried at his federal fraud trial Thursday. Ellison, on cross-examination, proved perhaps even better than on the direct examination by prosecutors. She gave lots of crisp “Yes, that’s right” responses to defense lawyer Mark Cohen, corrected him on a couple of points about which she’d already testified, and fixed his pronunciation (on the name “Mo
Way back in 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched the largest-ever audit in history, accusing Microsoft of stashing billions in offshore tax havens to dodge U.S. taxes. The agency had already been auditing the company, but for the next three years, it took perhaps the boldest, most antagonizing steps it had in decades to inspect the company’s finances. Former CEO Steve Ballmer got summoned. Microsoft complained that for “the first time in the history of the universe,
More than 70 million Americans are set to receive a 3.2% increase on their Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in 2024. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), announced on Thursday, is significantly lower than 2023’s boost—a shift that can be attributed to an easing inflation trend in the United States. Here’s a breakdown of the key takeaways you need to understand the upcoming change.
What is COLA?
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Violent and hateful rhetoric on the anonymous online message board 4chan rose dramatically following Hamas’s attacks on Israel last weekend, and again during Israel’s counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip, research shows.
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) found that within 48 hours of the initial attacks, the use of slurs and violent speech against Jewish and Muslim communities on 4chan grew by more than 500% and remained at high levels.
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