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Games industry lobbyists ESA say right to repair laws would hurt DRM
Louis Rossmann dismantled the argument.
Microsoft tests putting ads for its Office suite in WordPad
People are divided in opinion over the tests.
Senator Ron Wyden asks FTC to investigate pay-for-play ad blocking whitelisting
Wyden suggests its anti-competitive.
The rivalry between Slack and Teams heats up as Slack hints Microsoft is copying their ads
The two ads do look quite similar.
Google is worried an antitrust probe will reveal its secrets
Google may not be known for respecting the privacy of others, but it doesn’t want anyone knowing its own secrets.
Microsoft expresses concern over gag orders when feds are snooping on its users
Microsoft is unhappy with the US government’s decision to prevent the company from disclosing the federal inquiry to the two account holders.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s time to break up big tech
He told NPR that the lack of more forceful government interference in the way tech companies do their business will eventually spell the downfall of democracy.
Microsoft suggests Chromium “cleanup of potentially offensive terms” such as “blacklist”
Microsoft is making its decisions on what’s allowed and what isn’t based on “a machine learned model that does context based scanning on hundreds of file formats.”
Microsoft president says Taylor Swift “tried to sue” them over controversial AI chatbot Tay
According to Smith, it was revealed that the popstar’s lawyer accused Microsoft of violating federal and state laws by misleading the association between the chatbot and the singer.
eBay is investigating why its logo turned into a photo of a topless woman
The circumstances under which the mistake happened would still not go a long way towards explaining why the image was stored on eBay’s – or Microsoft’s – computers in the first place.
India considers new legislation to force big tech companies to sell their data
This new guideline will also ensure the fact that there will be greater scope for competition as all players, either big or small will have access to the customer data.
Facebook and Microsoft are creating their own deepfakes
This Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) raises new questions about how these types of detection tools will be applied to memes and other types of satirical content.