Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)

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Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision (kotaku.com)

Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard (www.bbc.co.uk)

Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard::It comes after the UK approved the $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.

Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)

Ecosia adds “contractually forced” Microsoft Clarity tracking (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/about-clarity | privacy faq : learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more....

Pope suggests blessings for same-sex unions possible in response to 5 conservative cardinals (apnews.com)

New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button (www.raspberrypi.com)

Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache...

Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo - (www.ign.com)

Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -::Xbox boss Phil Spencer outlined his desire to buy Nintendo in a leaked email sent in 2020.

Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one (arstechnica.com)

Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)

‘It’s too powerful a technology’

Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate (www.theguardian.com)

Marine Capitol rioter gets 1 hour of community service for each of 279 Marine Civil War casualties (apnews.com)

Marine Capitol rioter gets 1 hour of community service for each of 279 Marine Civil War casualties

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Topics essentially works like this: rather than using cookies to track people around the web and figure out their interests from the sites they visit and the apps they use, websites can ask Chrome directly, via its Topics JavaScript API, what sort of things the user is interested in, and then display ads based on that. Chrome...

TIL Peter Molyneux failed his first game so badly he started a baked bean export company, which got confused with a software firm and kickstarted his development career (en.wikipedia.org)

After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems because they confused the baked bean company’s name “Taurus” with a software company “Torus”, and he used the hardware to create a database system for the...