Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Maya Rogers, CEO of the Tetris Company, told me that the Tetris film is really about the story of the greatest business development deal of all time. Naturally, she’s a little biased.... Read more

Getty Images Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an advisory posted on Tuesday, Rubrik CISO Michael Mestrovich said an investigation into the breach found that the intruders... Read more

The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese ownership sell their stake in the popular app or face a possible ban in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The move comes as US officials have increasingly raised concerns that data from users in the US could be... Read more

Slowly but surely Apple TV+ is finding its feet. The streaming service, which at launch we called “odd, angsty, and horny as hell,” has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. It’s also fairly cheap compared to services like Netflix—and Apple often throws in three free... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. The Strong National Museum of Play announced the finalists for the 2023 class of entrants into its Video Game Hall of Fame today. There are some recognizable contenders, as well as one... Read more

Ars Technica As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model’s emergent capabilities—including “power-seeking behavior,” self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was “ineffective at the autonomous... Read more

March Madness is here. After a busy round of conference tournaments the men’s NCAA college basketball tournament — affectionately (and accurately) known as March Madness — gets underway this week. The First Four play-in games have begun, with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Pitt punching their respective tickets to the... Read more

For years, the hacking unit within Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency known as Sandworm has carried out some of the worst cyberattacks in history—blackouts, fake ransomware, data-destroying worms—from behind a carefully maintained veil of anonymity. But after half a decade of the spy agency’s botched operations, blown cover stories,... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Arkadium has been a family-run company for more than two decades. It still is, but now it is embarking on a new leadership transition. Kenny Rosenblatt, cofounder and president of Arkadium, will... Read more

Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things would happen. I like to think the message was intended for me, too, because today, my... Read more