HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
Tesla threatened to sue buyers who resell Cybertruck without written permission (arstechnica.com)
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑 (arstechnica.com)
No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.
Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech (arstechnica.com)
Why new fan blog “Final Fantasy VIII is the Best” is the best (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI (arstechnica.com)
A company called Atari is releasing a brand-new 2600 cartridge this year (arstechnica.com)
The company that currently owns the Atari name and trademarks has decided to give owners of the old Atari Video Computer System (aka the Atari 2600) something new to do. Mr. Run and Jump is a new Atari-published platformer that is coming to vintage Atari consoles in cartridge form, complete with a box and instruction manual....
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
With a fair amount of system integration (no wake word available) missing, of course. Which rather sounds like a feature.
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more (arstechnica.com)
Fallout games continue seeing big player jumps after the TV series’ success (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft promises Starfield has "fewest bugs" of any Bethesda game (arstechnica.com)
Given I've been going through and playing my old Bethesda games recently, I'm gonna have to call shenanigans here. It's in their DNA at this point.
ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)
Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes (arstechnica.com)
If Apple aren’t paying OpenAI and OpenAI aren’t playing Apple, it means that consumers are paying both.
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
"So the cop was tracking random people off social media using this incredibly invasive technology, on a pretty regular basis."...
Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub (arstechnica.com)
https://i.vgy.me/q5HdC7.gif
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer” (arstechnica.com)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
Spain orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to shut down eyeball-scanning orbs due to privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)
Spain has moved to block Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy in multiple countries by collecting customers’ personal data using an eyeball-scanning “orb.”...
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data (arstechnica.com)
Another Boeing disaster
Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI (arstechnica.com)
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)
