The DOJ and the FTC are apparently going back and forth about which agency can look into the company and its partnership with Microsoft, Politico reports.
I do hope the quote I used in the headline has actually been said as part of the discussions.
Microsoft’s flagship FPS has had a bumpy ride since its release, and there are rumors a “Tatanka” battle royale project was canceled. What isn’t a rumor is that Halo is dropping some conventions borrowed from other live service games, like marking big updates as “seasons.”
The team explains that new updates are now numbered (the next one on January 30th is Community Update 29 or CU29), while the battle pass-like Operations will give players a chance to earn free rewards for a few weeks at a time.
Or iPad, Mac, or any AirPlay-enabled device, including smart TVs. According to Apple’s website, the Vision Pro will support 720p AirPlay mirroring, however earlier on Friday, it said it would support 1080p AirPlay.
Correction, Friday, January 19th, 2023, 8:11PM ET: The description on Apple’s website changed after this post was originally published, and it has been updated to note the new resolution listed.
The latest Windows 11 Insider build (22635.3066) for the beta channel includes “the first major update” of the USB4 standard, which enables 80Gbps performance instead of 40Gbps. Microsoft says the capability will only launch on “select” devices with the Intel Core 14th Gen HX-series chip, including the Razer Blade 18.
[Windows Insider Blog]
According to an SEC filing, The Arena Group — which licenses and publishes Sports Illustrated — owes $45 million to ABG, the company that owns the storied outlet. The Arena Group also recently missed a $3.75 million quarterly payment to ABG.
News broke earlier today that potentially all of the SI staff could be laid off after The Arena Group’s publishing license was revoked — and right now, it’s unclear if Sports Illustrated will exist at all going forward.
[investors.thearenagroup.net]
The union said the layoffs could affect “a significant number, possibly all” guild members at Sports Illustrated. According to the union, the outlet’s publisher, The Arena Group, has had its license revoked.
In November, affiliate marketing content credited to fake, AI-generated authors began appearing on Sports Illustrated. The Arena Group maintained, however, that the content itself was written by humans. Spokesperson Rachael Fink wrote in an email to The Verge:
“We are in active discussions with [the license holders] but we understand we aren’t the only ones. Even though the publishing license has been revoked we will continue to produce Sports Illustrated until this is resolved.
We hope to be the company to take SI forward but if not, we are confident that someone will. If it is another business, we will support the transition so the legacy of Sports Illustrated doesn’t suffer.”
Then put your skills to the test in the NYT’s quiz that asks you to pick if a photo is real or AI-generated.
I got 6/10, how did you fare?
[The New York Times]
The University of Chicago’s Glaze Project has released Nightshade v1.0, which enables artists to sabotage generative AI models that ingest their work for training.
Nightshade makes invisible pixel-level changes to images that trick AI models into reading them as something else and corrupt their image output — for example, identifying a cubism style as cartoon.
It’s out now for Windows PC and Apple Silicon Macs.
Big gadget week! The Vision Pro is up for pre-order (are you getting one?), so we talked about everyone’s experience so far and all the things we still don’t know. Then we dig into Samsung’s new S24 lineup, the latest on the Apple Watch ban, and what it means to make a slow-mo video when there’s no slow-mo video to make it from.
