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• FTC renews legal challenge to Microsoft’s $69B purchase of Activision

  28-09-2023 18:38
  
  Two months after the US Federal Trade Commission stopped proceedings to block Microsoft’s $69 billion dollar acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard, the federal agency has revived its challenge.In a filing issued Wednesday, the FTC set a new schedule for hearings to be held in front of an administrative law judge in what amounts to an in-house trial at the government agency. The renewed legal challenge comes after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reversed i
  
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• ‘We hoped not to use WebKit at all,' says Vivaldi CEO, as iOS browser ships

  28-09-2023 17:24
  
  Days after EU industry chief Thierry Breton told Apple CEO Tim Cook in no uncertain terms that the company will be forced to open its ecosystem to competition, European browser company Vivaldi introduced its first browser for iOS. So, I spoke with Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner to discuss the context around the release.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Wi-Fi 7 could make thin clients much more viable

  28-09-2023 17:01
  
  Wi-Fi 6 promised performance to match a wired network, and now we’re beginning to see the first  Wi-Fi 7 products hit the market with promises of performance on par with optical networks. That makes  it not only an alternative for wired networks, but potentially a higher performing replacement — with solid improvements in security, latency, and bandwidth. If you can get optical performance from a wireless network, doesn’t it make more sense to deploy it when you
  
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• Chip industry strains to meet AI-fueled demands — will smaller LLMs help?

  28-09-2023 12:00
  
  Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of natural-language processing technology has taken the world by storm, with organizations large and small rushing to pilot it in a bid to find new efficiencies and automate tasks.Tech giants Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all offering cloud-based genAI technologies or baking them into their business apps for users, with global spending on AI by companies expected to reach $301 billion by 2026, according to IDC.But genAI tools consume a lot
  
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• Google to block Bard conversations from being indexed on Search

  28-09-2023 11:46
  
  Alphabet-owned Google is working on blocking user conversations with its new Bard generative AI assistant from being indexed on its Search platform or showing up as results.“Bard allows people to share chats, if they choose. We also don't intend for these shared chats to be indexed by Google Search. We're working on blocking them from being indexed now,” Google’s Search Liaison account posted on Twitter, now X.The internet search giant was responding to an SEO Consultant who p
  
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