Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you ( www.techspot.com )
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...
Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it ( www.techspot.com )
Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC ( www.techspot.com )
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die ( www.techspot.com )
If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?
Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training ( www.techspot.com )
Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain ( www.techspot.com )
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
Windows XP can run on an Intel CPU from 1989 thanks to dedicated modder ( www.techspot.com )
Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users ( www.techspot.com )
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO ( www.techspot.com )
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes ( www.techspot.com )
Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe? ( www.techspot.com )
Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games ( www.techspot.com )
IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute ( www.techspot.com )
Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file....
Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm ( www.techspot.com )
Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm::undefined
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses ( www.techspot.com )
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it ( www.techspot.com )
Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year ( www.techspot.com )
Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected ( www.techspot.com )
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Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers ( www.techspot.com )
Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting ( www.techspot.com )
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HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers ( www.techspot.com )
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers::undefined
Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist ( www.techspot.com )
Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated ( www.techspot.com )
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FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms | Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison ( www.techspot.com )
FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms | Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison::undefined