by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Meta has notched an early victory in its attempt to halt a surprise tell-all memoir from a former policy executive turned whistleblower. An arbitrator has sided with the social media company, saying that the book’s author should stop selling and publicizing the book,...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Spectre Divide, a Valorant-like free-to-play shooter where you control two bodies, is shutting down just months after its September launch. “We were optimistic about the first week,” developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. “We’ve had ~400,000 players play, with...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Google is pushing back on a bill that would make Utah the first state in the US to have a law requiring app stores to conduct age verification of their users. The company has formally requested the state's governor to veto the bill, passed by the state...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
When it goes live, iOS 18.4 will allow some users to set a default navigation app other than Apple Maps. The software of choice can be set from the Settings app by going to Apps, then to Default Apps, then to Navigation. This way, users can opt for a program like...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk show off a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The next phase of Elon Musk’s plan to entangle his companies with the workings of the federal government is well...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Meta has spent more than a year advocating for new laws requiring app stores to give parents control over kids’ app downloads, and just saw an early victory in the states. But Google charges that it’s really just a misguided effort to “offload” Meta’s own...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
The United Kingdom’s mobile browser market is “not working well for consumers and businesses” according to a final report from Britain’s competition watchdog, which says that Apple and Google are largely to blame. An independent inquiry group has concluded its mobile...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sure enough, AMD’s exciting Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT graphic card prices, quoted at $550/$600, are looking too good to be true. Newegg, Overclockers UK, and even Micro Center are among the outlets that have now quietly raised the prices on the supposedly entry-level...
by bleffel | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Straining the limits of wall space and most reasonable people's budgets, Samsung is now selling a March Madness bundle of eight "premium Samsung TVs" that you can get for $10,000, a savings of more than $6,000. Samsung suggests the new "Buzzer...
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