Microsoft’s Xbox PC app hints at China expansion for Game Pass
… Microsoft was planning to do this with the Xbox One, but a backlash from publishers and game resellers forced the company to abandon the plans. …
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The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
… But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part of the wider cultural backlash against AI. …
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
… The backlash against massive data centers is shaping up to be a defining political issue. …
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25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?
… Bandcamp alone now sells 15 million digital albums per year, with total payments to artists surpassing $1.7 billion to date, according to company information. “There is this streaming backlash bubbling up,” Kell says. …
Tim Cook was an innovator — just not the Jobs kind
… Following public backlash around ICE activity in Minnesota, Cook offered only a mealy-mouthed statement about the need for “deescalation.” When the Grok app was clearly being used to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women, Apple quietly asked X’s developers to rein it in — but never actuall… …
The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn
… It briefly led to ABC suspending Kimmel’s show, though ABC and Nexstar soon reversed their decision after a massive nationwide backlash and an ABC boycott. …
AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot
… Backlash over deepfakes, impersonation, and synthetic spam is already forcing lawmakers and regulators to pay closer attention, particularly after incidents involving nonconsensual sexual deepfakes generated with tools like Grok. …
The plan to quietly kill Coyote v. Acme blew up in David Zaslav’s face
… The initial backlash to Cotoye v. …
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
… Speaking of previous strategies, Sharma also quickly reversed Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” marketing campaign last month. …