Month: February 2023
Here’s why Meta is shutting down Echo VR
Last week, Meta announced that it would be shutting down the widely praised VR game Echo VR in August. Since then, Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth has shared some further details about the shutdown, and former Meta consulting CTO John Carmack has weighed in about the decision. In an Instagram…
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Atlassian patches serious Jira authentication flaw
Audio player loading… Atlassian has revealed it has fixed a major flaw in their Service Management Server and Data Center products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22501, allows threat actors to impersonate (opens in new tab) people and gain access to a Jira Service Management instance under certain circumstances. It has…
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Exclusive: Sonos’ next speakers will be called the Era 300 and Era 100
Sonos is preparing a new generation of smart speakers, known as the Era 300 and Era 100, that will debut in the coming months, The Verge has learned. The speakers, which The Verge previously detailed under the codename Optimo, will be pitted against Apple’s $299 HomePod and other smart home…
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AI Seinfeld was surreal fun until it called being trans an illness
Twitch has banned “Nothing, Forever,” the AI-generated Seinfeld stream, for at least 14 days following a transphobic and homophobic outburst. It’s the latest example of “hate in, hate out” when AI chatbots are trained on offensive content without adequate moderation. Like Seinfeld, “Nothing, Forever” rotates between standup bits and scenes…
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Overwatch 2’s season 3 changes make Mercy weaker
Other than a new map, a dating sim, and a tie-in with One Punch Man, Blizzard is also touching up practically every aspect of Overwatch 2 with the introduction of the game’s third season. A blog post provided an overview of the big changes players will see when the game…
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Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected
Microsoft is holding a major news event tomorrow on February 7th. The software giant first mailed out invites to an in-person event at the company’s Redmond headquarters last week and is now officially announcing the event minutes after Google made its ChatGPT rival official. Microsoft’s event starts at 10AM PT…
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