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The S&P 500 is trading at a record and the Nasdaq is at its highest in two years, CNBC reported. Alphabet shares reached a new pinnacle on Thursday, as did Meta and Microsoft, which ran past $3 trillion in market cap.
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, The Verge reported. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts. The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total.
Amazon’s Ring will no longer allow police to request users’ doorbell video footage in its neighborhood watch app, CNBC reported. In a blog post on Wednesday, Ring said this week it plans to discontinue it’s “Request for Assistance” tool, which allowed law enforcement to submit requests for users footage in their communities through a publicly accessible post in its Neighbor’s
X, formerly known as Twitter, today announced support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method than traditional passwords, which will become an option for U.S. users on iOS devices. The technology has been adopted by a number of apps as of late, including PayPal, TikTok, WhatsApp, and others, TechCrunch reported. Initiated by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO
Game Developers are overwhelmingly concerned about the ethics of using AI. The organizers of the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) have released their annual State of the Game Industry Survey, in which 84 percent of the 3,000-plus respondents said they were somewhat or very concerned about the ethics of using generative AI, The Verge reported. The survey’s results elaborated on why
It’s here: months after it was announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” AI models seeking to train on their works, is now available for artists to download and use on any artworks they see fit, VentureBeat reported. Developed by computer scientists on the Glaze Project at the University of Chicago under Professor Ben Zhao, the
Elon Musk’s own social network X is rolling out the ability to make audio and video calls from the app to its Android client, TechCrunch reported. One of the engineers working on the project posted about the feature release and said it would be available to Android users after an app update. According to TechCrunch, in August 2023, CEO Linda