CMA and possibly FTC are investigating Microsoft’s billion-dollar investment in OpenAI
The British regulator Competition and Markets Authority and reportedly also the US Federal Trade Commission are conducting an exploratory investigation into Microsoft's billion-dollar investment in OpenAI. The investigation comes after…
Download Wine 9.0-rc1
The first release candidate of Wine version 9.0 has been released. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and macOS. A large group of…
Beeper Mini, iMessage client for Android, stops working three days after release
Beeper Mini, an iMessage client for Android that does not require an Apple ID, stopped working three days after its release. Users report that messages can no longer be sent and received. Beeper's CEO suspects that Apple is behind…
EU reaches provisional agreement on the substantive content of AI legislation
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have reached a provisional agreement on the implementation of the AI Act. This sets out a series of rules that AI systems active in Europe must comply with. Certain applications are…
Rabobank disruption caused problems when processing transactions – update
On Friday there was a disruption at Rabobank. This made it temporarily difficult or impossible for customers to complete transactions. It is not yet known what the cause of the malfunction is. The malfunction has now been resolvedThe…
Square Enix will release Visions of Mana in 2024
Sqaure Enix announced the RPG Visions of Mana during The Game Awards. It should be released in 2024 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC. No specific release date has been announced yet.Visions of Mana…
Download The Bat! 10.5.3
Version 10.5.3 of the more than twenty year old email client The Bat! it came out. The program has everything you would expect from a modern e-mail client, such as automatically sorting, replying or forwarding e-mail, there are various…
Download Microsoft Edge 120.0.2210.61
Microsoft has released version 120 of Edge. This Chromium-based browser is available for Windows 10 and higher, Linux, and macOS. There are also versions for Android and iOS. The most important changes in this release, which will be…
Founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato pleads guilty to money laundering of millions of dollars
The founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato pleads guilty to laundering more than $700 million. The money came from ransomware groups, among others. The 41-year-old Russian is currently in custody in the United States.The US Attorney's…
Ubisoft will release Skull and Bones on February 16, 2024
Ubisoft says during The Game Awards 2023 that the highly anticipated pirate game Skull and Bones will be released on February 16, 2024. The game was originally scheduled for release in 2018 and has since been delayed several times.The…