Jay Peters
Elon Musk has been ordered to appear at a court hearing tomorrow in Philadelphia.
It’s for the DA’s lawsuit over his probably illegal $1 million daily voter giveaway — I wonder if he’ll show up.
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Tom Warren
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 had a big weekend.
Activision says Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 set new day one and opening weekend records, making it the biggest Call of Duty three-day opening weekend ever. It also had the highest total PC players during opening weekend in franchise history. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says “unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60 percent year-over-year.”
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Jay Peters
Black Ops 6 was the “biggest Call of Duty release ever.”
That’s from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. Nadella also says that Xbox Game Pass set a new Q1 record for total revenue and average revenue per subscriber.
Jay Peters
AI is big business for Microsoft.
CEO Satya Nadella just shared that the company’s AI business is set to surpass an annual run rate of $10 billion this quarter (Q2). He also commented on the state of its relationship with OpenAI, which we reported is straining.
Elizabeth Lopatto
FTX co-conspirator Nishad Singh isn’t going to prison.
Singh, now the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced after Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and Ryan Salame, will receive three years of supervised release.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who has presided over the cases, said that Mr. Singh provided crucial assistance to the government and that he had played a “much more limited” role in the scheme than his colleagues had.
Nishad Singh, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time After Cooperation
[The New York Times]
Alex Heath
Threads hits 275 million users.
Meta’s X.com competitor now has 275 million monthly users, up from 200 million in August, according to Mark Zuckerberg. On Meta’s Q3 earnings call just now, he says Threads is seeing more than one million sign-ups per day and is on track to becoming “our next major social app.”
The time people spend in Threads “also continues to grow,” and Meta is working to “make it easier to stay up to date on topics,” adds CFO Susan Li.
Andrew Webster
Sean Hollister
Steam store pages will now say when a game has kernel level anti-cheat.
Going forward, when you submit a new game to Steam, if your game installs a client side, kernel mode anti-cheat, you will need to fill out this new field. We will be going through old games and contacting partners with games that fall into this category.
Kernel level anti-cheat is divisive, to say the least; now you’ll know before you buy.
Umar Shakir
Sound the Alarmo!
Nintendo’s buzzy new alarm clock has been jailbroken by a hacker named Gary who figured out the device’s boot sequence and found a way to exploit and run code through USB. It opens up the possibility for some interesting hacks, but to start we have cat pictures and plasma effects.
Gary previously created a Wii U DNS exploit and chimed in on dying Wii Us.