January 10, 2025news El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, built by HPE and AMD as part of a $600M US DOE contract, is officially dedicated to handle classified tasks (Axios) Read More »
January 10, 2025news The CFPB proposes a new rule to give consumers the same protection rights when they use virtual currencies in some video games like Roblox as when they use USD (Makena Kelly/Wired) In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other […]
January 10, 2025news Sources: Venu’s cancellation came after the companies decided it was better to avoid the risk of an extended lawsuit that could jeopardize bundling in general (CNBC) From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
January 10, 2025news In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more (Politico) God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader […]
January 10, 2025news A look at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RELX’s largest division, which accounts for ~35% of RELX’s revenue and holds 9B device records and 3B digital identities (John Gapper/Financial Times) Company once known as Reed Elsevier has moved from legal and scientific publishing into AI fraud detection Read More »
January 9, 2025news Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care, raised a $141M Series B, valuing the company at $1.64B, and launches a health care AI agent app store (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare) Read More »
January 9, 2025news GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin says Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump the day before announcing that Meta would replace fact Read More »
January 9, 2025news GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin says Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump the day before announcing that Meta would replace fact Read More »
January 9, 2025news Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok’s US assets and keep the app alive without its current algorithm (Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat/Reuters) Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok’s US assets and keep the app alive […]
January 9, 2025news December court filing: Activision revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops III cost $450M+ to make, Modern Warfare cost $640M+, and Black Ops Cold War cost $700M+ (Stephen Totilo/Game File) The biggest development budgets ever disclosed by a game company, buried in a court filing (but found by Game File), along with […]
