From CNET: Microsoft on Thursday filed a response to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit aiming to block its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, arguing that it won't hurt competition in the video game industry.

The FTC said earlier this month in its lawsuit challenging the acquisition...

From The Verge: The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet Twitter account that used public information to track Elon Musk’s private jet has resumed his activities on Twitter under a new username. As noted by Insider, Jack Sweeney, 20, has created a new account called @ElonJetNextDay —...

From CNET: Back in 2018, when Meta was still known as Facebook, a scandal hit the company unlike any that we'd seen before or have seen since. It turned out that Meta had allowed access to user data to a number of third parties, including a British political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica...

From The Verge: An internal investigation at TikTok parent company ByteDance found that several employees accessed the TikTok data of at least two US journalists and a “small number” of other people connected to them, according to internal emails obtained by The Verge that were first reported by The...

From PC Mag: It’s now possible for anyone on Twitter to see how many users viewed your tweets, as the platform rolls out its new “View Count” feature.

In a tweet(Opens in a new window), Elon Musk said, “Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is...

From CNET: After several US states moved to ban TikTok, some universities have followed suit, preventing access to the social media app on computers and Wi-Fi networks out of concern that the app reports user data to the Chinese government. 

Thus far, several universities in Alabama, Georgia and...

From The Verge: Now that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is back in the US, he has been released from federal custody. The New York Times and CNBC report the co-founder of the failed and allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange FTX was released on $250 million bail, secured by his parent’s home, ahead...

From ExtremeTech: The CES trade show takes place in a few weeks, and AMD’s CEO will be delivering the opening keynote. Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage in Vegas, and is expected to deliver the company’s vision for the future. That should include the highly-anticipated Zen 4 CPUs with 3D Cache, as...

From Forbes: Apple’s iPhone 14 launch has been far from smooth, with sales and stock issues and numerous bugs ranging from the bizarre to the serious. Now another major problem has struck owners.

Out of nowhere, large numbers of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners have suddenly started...

From The Verge: YouTube will be the new home of NFL Sunday Ticket, Google and the NFL announced, ending the months-long question of where the major broadcasting package would end up. NFL Sunday Ticket has been available in the US exclusively via DirecTV since 1994, but the satellite provider won’t...