Month: October 2023
Bobby Kotick commits to staying as Activision Blizzard CEO until the end of 2023
Following the confirmation earlier today (October 13) that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been closed, it’s been announced that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will be staying in his role until the end of the year, but it’s implied that he’ll be stepping down in 2024. In an email…
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Unpatched WS_FTP servers are being targeted to spread ransomware
Organizations that have not yet patched their WS_FTP Server instances are now being targeted by ransomware. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts Sophos X-Ops, who recently thwarted one such attempt against one of their clients. A relatively unknown threat actor going by the name Reichsadler Cybercrime…
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Fed up with the cost of MacBook repairs? New unofficial tool might be a glimmer of hope
An Apple MacBook has had a sensor fixed by a German repair shop which managed to circumvent the company’s protections put in place to stop unauthorized third parties from making such repairs. Forbes reports that the outfit, NotebookNerds (in Dortmund, Germany) achieved the feat using a tool (dubbed ‘Nerd.Tool.1’) purpose-built…
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The Fabulous Fear Machine is a delicious pulp game about the horrors of propaganda
Did you know AMC makes video games? The television network responsible for Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead has a full-blown publishing label for video games, and it’s shepherded four titles to market since 2020. Its first was a real-time flight simulator from the NYU Game Center Incubator…
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Franz is the creepy thing that lives in your phone
On Christmas Day 2021, a man took a crossbow to Windsor Castle with plans to kill Queen Elizabeth II. (He failed.) In court, the would-be assassin claimed he’d been egged on by a virtual companion named Sarai on the AI platform Replika. A virtual friend “always agrees with you when…
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How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas
For years, developers have been working on ways for driverless cars to communicate intent to other road users, either through audio recordings or visual cues. Today, Waymo says it wants to be one of the first companies to put some of these methods into practice. The Alphabet-owned company’s driverless Jaguar…
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