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Nintendo is adding one (1) extra game to its N64 Switch Online library
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Nintendo is adding Paper Mario to its Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library on December... Read more
FTC suit says Nvidia’s $40B Arm acquisition would hurt rival chipmakers
Nvidia announced the agreement with Arm in September 2020. Nvidia The US Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it’s suing to block Nvidia’s takeover of chip designer Arm. The deal, worth $40 billion, would give Nvidia “control over the computing technology and designs that rival firms rely on to... Read more
A Software Bug Let Hackers Drain $31M From a Crypto Service
Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. The company uses a decentralized finance protocol known as MonoX that lets users trade digital currency tokens without some of the requirements of... Read more
FTC sues to block Nvidia’s $75B bid to buy Arm
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia‘s $75 billion takeover of Arm Holdings... Read more
Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped – Vox
When Spotify Wrapped came out in 2017, it hit my group chats like breaking news. A friend frantically sent me a screenshot showing they were in the top 1 percent of Frank Ocean listeners with a message, “CAN U BELIEVE THIS,” followed by a deluge of texts from other... Read more
Ransomware attack on Planned Parenthood steals data of 400,000 patients
Ransomware hackers broke into a Planned Parenthood network and accessed medical records or other sensitive data for more than 400,000 patients of the reproductive health care group. The disclosure came in a sample letter posted to the California attorney general’s website and a release published by the organization. Both... Read more
Pokemon Go Swinub Incense Day: Featured Pokemon, bonuses and event hours
Swinub and other ice and ground Pokemon will appear more frequently when you use Incense on Dec. 5. Niantic Pokemon Go is kicking off its new Season of Heritage with a special Incense Day event starring Swinub. The event takes place on Sunday, Dec. 5, and ties into this... Read more
Congress Takes Aim at the Algorithms
“I agree in principle that there should be liability, but I don’t think we’ve found the right set of terms to describe the processes we’re concerned about,” said Jonathan Stray, a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI who studies recommendation algorithms. “What’s amplification, what’s enhancement, what’s... Read more
Amazon Web Services security: 5 issues startups aim to fix
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Even with all the challenges of securing the cloud, cybersecurity has actually evolved into one of the advantages of migrating to public... Read more
Metaverse real estate is now being sold for cryptocurrency
The metaverse is getting hotter. Not hot, like a delicious meal or a Finnish sauna. This mostly fictional, virtual world is getting hot like a real estate market. Because lately, it is one. If you have enough money and courage, you can now buy up digital tracts of land... Read more