The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed — With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.
How Influencers played a key role in boosting the popularity of Riot Game's Valorant among Gen Z gamers; Riot says 70% of Valorant players are Generation Z — Valorant was never a sure thing, until it was. … Rachell Hofstetter, known to fans as Valkyrae, yells like a banshee as she dodges gunfire in the video game.
The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which was exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching every web server before the problem can be eradicated — Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
Canon begins selling nanoimprint chip machines, which skip photolithography to impress circuit patterns on the wafer, likely avoiding trade curbs, to rival ASML — - Japanese optics specialist seeks to close gap with Dutch rival — Chipmaking machinery has been focus of US sanctions on China
Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021 — Goldman sells the consumer lender GreenSky after significant losses, less than two years after buying it.
Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people's faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like — A new AI function called Best Take in Google's Pixel 8 lets you replace people's faces, saving memories of moments that never actually happened.
Filing: Alphabet-owned DeepMind cut expenses related to employees by to £595M in 2022, down 39% from £969M in 2021, as revenue fell 21% YoY — - Alphabet-owned AI research unit saw revenues fall in 2022 — London-based DeepMind slashed staff costs 39% in the period
Investors and analysts expect the Israel-Hamas war to derail the fragile recovery of Israel's tech sector, which accounts for 14% of the country's workforce — The spiralling conflict with the Palestinians is set to derail a fragile recovery in Israel's all-important tech sector …
Sources: at an Activision townhall hosted by James Corden, Bobby Kotick discussed Microsoft, Elon Musk's Neuralink, hinted at a Guitar Hero revival, and more — Kotick and Corden (not me) discuss the future of Activision. — What you need to know — Sources familiar …
Apple spent $200M to $250M on Killers of the Flower Moon, debuting October 20, the first test of Apple's plans to spend $1B per year on movies for theaters — The tech giant is hoping the big screen will help sell little ones. — At the Cannes Film Festival, red carpets are unfurled to receive Hollywood's most important figures.
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal : China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that “send sensi...
