Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has had record sales of $800 million worldwide in sell-through following the first three days from its release. The full title debuted on October 28 after hitting early-access release for the single-player campaign on October 20, breaking all previous three-day sales records since Read more…
Eric Schmidt wants to reshape Washington’s industrial policy to combat an intensifying US-China tech rivalry. The former Google chief executive officer’s philanthropic arm issued recommendations aimed at encouraging US politicians to counter China’s rising technological ambitions by ramping up regulatory scrutiny, encouraging more private investment and offering tax credits to Read more…
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. — Paul Erlich
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. — John Naisbitt, Megatrends
The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should take action to ban TikTok, Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview. “I don’t believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban,” Carr said, citing recent revelations Read more…
Big changes are underway at Twitter. Elon Musk, in a Twitter thread: Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month. Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity. You will also get: – Read more…
US financial institutions spent nearly $1.2 billion on likely ransomware-related payments last year, most commonly in response to breaches originating with Russian criminal groups, according to the Treasury Department. The payments more than doubled from 2020, underscoring the pernicious damage that ransomware continues to wreak on the private sector. The Read more…