438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition
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Dan Milmo (Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£57bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, after the UK’s competition watchdog cleared the acquisition.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had moved to block the deal in April, citing concerns that Microsoft – the […]
Google Vertex AI Search
Brett Terpstra: So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s power for your searches, you can now add […]
Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already shipped its own attestation scheme called Private Access Tokens, which while it presents some of the same concerns […]
Apple’s Three Safaris
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
FTX Trial
Molly White (via Nick Heer): We got our first glance at the FTX codebase on Friday. The prosecution brought out Github screenshots as they questioned cooperating witness Gary Wang, the former CTO of FTX who at various times was responsible for the codebases powering both FTX and Alameda Research. Wang has pleaded guilty to four […]
Apple’s Q4 2023 Results
Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors: The Company posted quarterly revenue of $89.5 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.46, up 13 percent year over year. “Today Apple is pleased to report a September quarter revenue record for iPhone and an all-time revenue record in Services,” said Tim […]
macOS 14: Separate iCloud Drive and CloudKit Switches
Howard Oakley: One important change in Sonoma is the distinction between apps accessing iCloud Drive (shown here) and those using CloudKit to share their databases (described below). […] To control the apps allowed to store their databases in iCloud using CloudKit, you need to go back to iCloud settings. In the Apps Using iCloud section […]
Apple’s Blue Ocean
John Siracusa (Hacker News): I just can’t shake the idea that a return to removable, user-accessible batteries has now become a blue-ocean opportunity just waiting for Apple to seize it.[…]There’s more headroom than there has ever been to accommodate a tiny bit more size and weight in Apple’s portable products.[…]Second, people still crave the advantages […]