Month: July 2023
Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost what may be its final attempt to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. It’s the second loss for the FTC after a US federal judge denied its request for a preliminary injunction earlier this week to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard until…
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The Biden administration can talk to social media sites again — for now
Originally, Judge Terry Doughty suggested that the Biden administration may be suppressing “millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens,” writing that the government had already “used its power to silence the opposition” by suppressing speech opposed to covid-19 vaccines and the validity of the 2020 election, among other…
Read MoreQuordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, July 15 (game #537)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with…
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Acer’s first AMD graphics card, the Predator BiFrost RX 7600, looks promising
Acer previously revealed its interest in manufacturing Nvidia and AMD GPUs at Computex 2023, and now it’s taking its first step in that direction with its Predator BiFrost RX 7600 graphics card. The Predator BiFrost Radeon RX 7600 features the same BiFrost cooling as its first graphics card, an Intel…
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Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan ends in August
The Friends & Family Preview will end on August 15, in all participating countries (Ireland, Colombia, New Zealand, Sweden, Israel, Chile, Hungary, and South Africa). We are no longer accepting new registrations and new member additions to existing plans will no longer be accepted after July 17. The Friends & Family…
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Meta admits it’s blocking EU users from joining Threads through a VPN
Meta has officially confirmed it is blocking European Union citizens from using a VPN in order to join Threads. Recently, EU users began to notice they were suddenly unable to post on the new social media platform. Industry analyst Matt Navarra reached out to Meta to figure out what’s going…
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