Sony's decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
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Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
… He industrialized the surveillance capitalism business model Cambridge Analytica pioneered: behavioral data at massive scale enables population-level personality modeling.” Supposedly, Musk’s X business model training Grok on public posts is “identical” to the business model behind one of the bigge… …
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA
… But it’s notable that the insurance firm has joined a growing list of known, enterprise-size firms that have decided to move away from VMware and dispute its owner’s business practices in court. …
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
… The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder , where two publishers found that Google’s AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other sketchy business practices. …
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
… Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices since the law came into force in 2024. …
Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle
… In a press release , the EC explained that the fines were due to Google “self-preferencing its own services on Google Search” $522 million and for anti-steering practices, like charging fees or restricting app developers from directing consumers to cheaper purchase options outside of Google Play $4… …
"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
… The lawsuit pointed to a Federal Trade Commission policy statement that businesses “engaging in surreptitious and unexpected collection or use of biometric information” may violate the FTC Act’s prohibition on deceptive and unfair trade practices. “Ring’s collection, retention, and use of biometric… …
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
… It also claims that decentralization will make everyone safer, because it will give the benefits and advantages of “superintelligence” to everyone equally, instead of privileging “a small number of individuals, businesses, governments, or AI itself.” A public recalibration Meta has been lagging beh… …