In a major setback for Google, a US District Court has declared the search engine giant a monopoly, asserting it used its dominance in the online search market to stifle competition. This ruling is likely to increase regulatory scrutiny and changes in Google’s business practices, potentially allowing more room for competitors to gain market share….
Enlarge (credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker) Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates delivered over unsecure connections, researchers said. The attack, researchers from security firm Volexity said, worked by hacking routers or similar types of device infrastructure of an unnamed…
Getty Images According to The Wall Street Journal, there’s internal conflict at OpenAI over whether or not to release a watermarking tool that would allow people to test text to see whether it was generated by ChatGPT or not. To deploy the tool, OpenAI would make tweaks to ChatGPT that would lead it to leave…
In a landmark decision, a US District Court on Monday ruled that Google is a monopoly that used its dominance in the online search market to suppress other search engines and keep them from gaining market share. The decision by the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Google’s dominance has gone unchallenged…
Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of its competitors and the detriment of the public at large. The first lawsuit, targeting Google’s search business, kicked off in…
Valve dataminer Tyler McVicker has discovered hints that some Half-Life may be in active development at Valve. While we’re not quite at the “Half-Life 3 confirmed!” stage of proceedings, things are looking bright for a new non-VR game in the series, for the first time in a while. Back in 2021, we saw the release…
With the release of Honkai: Star Rail version 2.4, March 7th’s transition into her new path gives players a brand new Hunt character to mess around with. It’s an extraordinarily unique kit for the path, and perhaps worth checking out even if she’s not your usual cup of tea. If you’re eager to build March…
Once Human has a built-in survival guide to clarify many of its varied, and sometimes confusing, mechanics. But even after reading the entry on fishing, new players might still feel unenlightened. It seems simple enough, but once you get your hands on a fishing pole, you might find that the question remains: how do you…
Ron Amadeo Google Chrome’s long, long project to implement a new browser extension platform is seemingly going to happen, for real, after six years of cautious movement. One of the first ways people are seeing this is if they use uBlock Origin, a popular ad-blocking extension, as noted by Bleeping Computer. Recently, Chrome users have…
Apple has introduced what might seem a controversial new Safari feature to make surfing the web a lot less annoying, as it removes those overlays that sometimes gets in the way of the experience. The new feature is called Distraction Control. What is Distraction Control in Safari? Coming this fall to Safari, Distraction Control lets…