Judge orders Microsoft, Activision to comply with FTC document requests

An administrative law judge has ordered Microsoft to comply with all Activision merger document requests made by the FTC’s complaint counsel in a recent motion. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Recent filings indicate the Federal Trade Commission is having trouble getting specific documents from Microsoft and Activision. FTC complaint counsel (the lawyers representing the …

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Bad news on that ChatGPT bug

Last week, ChatGPT went down in what first appeared to be a global outage, but was in fact, due to OpenAI shutting the service (temporarily) after finding a bug that made user chat histories visible to the public – and more besides, we’ve now found out, worryingly. 2 The bug in an open source library …

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There’s now a fix for Windows 11’s nasty ‘acropalypse’ security flaw

Microsoft has swiftly deployed emergency fixes for a security flaw in Windows 11 that affected the Snipping Tool (and the Snip & Sketch app in Windows 10, too). 2 This bug was rated as a ‘low’ severity affair by Microsoft, but some affected users may not agree with that assessment (Image Credit: Elisa Ventur / …

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Planning to get Xbox Game Pass for $1? It might be too late now

Microsoft has stopped its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscription platforms, which allowed users to try the service for $1 for the first month before upgrading to more expensive plans. Also Read – Google redesigns Drive to for a better tablet experience The trial was available for years but wasn’t always available …

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Turtle Beach Stealth Pro announced, with premium drivers and noise cancellation

The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro is the latest premium gaming headset from the peripheral maker and audio company. It supports all gaming devices, Bluetooth, active noise-cancellation, and other notable features. 3 Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, image credit: Turtle Beach VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Regarding active noise cancellation, Turtle Beach claims that it’s “the most …

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Earth unexpectedly rocked by the most intense blast from the Sun in 6 years

Earth was just smacked with a very powerful blast from the Sun that caused the spawning of auroras more south than they typically appear. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The event occurred on March 25 and was confirmed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which issued a statement declaring a severe …

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The Flux Keyboard is a transparent keyboard with a Full HD dynamic display

The Flux Keyboard is a fascinating new peripheral that has blasted through its Kickstarter goal of AUD 200,000, where it was funded in eight minutes and hit AUD 1 million in four hours. And it’s not hard to see why, as this modular keyboard integrates a fully dynamic display with the feel of a mechanical …

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NVIDIA says cryptocurrencies do not ‘bring anything useful for society’

We’ve all lived through the GeForce RTX 30 Series generation, where the rise of cryptocurrencies and mining drove prices up and increased scarcity for GPUs. So this new interview with The Guardian is interesting in that it sees NVIDIA publicly distance itself from something that has negatively affected the PC gaming space. 2 VIEW GALLERY …

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 details emerge, the company’s DLSS 3 like tech

When AMD announced its new flagship RDNA 3 GPUs last year, the Radeon 7900 XT and 7900 XTX, the company also briefly teased that it was developing FSR 3. Its next-generation FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology would, in effect, present an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS 3 – specifically Frame Generation. 5 AMD FSR 3 presentation …

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Elon Musk reportedly left OpenAI after he failed at taking over the company

Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk reportedly attempted to takeover OpenAI in 2018 but ended up cutting ties with the company after his plan was rejected. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The news comes from Semafor, which recently published an article that claims Musk, a founder and board member at the time, said …

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Researchers that built a ChatGPT clone for $600 killed it over safety concerns

It was only a few days ago that a team of Stanford researchers built a clone of OpenAI’s ChatGPT for just $600. Now those researchers have taken the demo. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The release of OpenAI ChatGPT put artificial intelligence in the limelight and demonstrated the widespread demand for language models, the …

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Microsoft researchers say GPT-4 is the beginning of a human-level AI

Internal Microsoft researchers have published a paper that explored OpenAI’s newest language model, GPT-4, and according to those researchers, it may be the very first step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES A new research paper has been published on the arXiv pre-print server by internal Microsoft AI researchers that …

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UK regulator now sounds less worried about Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a statement which takes a more positive attitude towards Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard merger. 2 Call of Duty is no longer one of the major potential stumbling blocks for the takeover (Image Credit: Activision) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES This is a huge move for the gaming world …

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