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T-Mobile recently blindsided its satellite partner SpaceX by announcing plans to form a joint venture (JV) with arch-rivals AT&T and Verizon. The Big Three aim to collaborate on a multi-operator satellite initiative by pooling spectrum resources and creating unified industry specs. The broader industry, and certainly SpaceX, views this as an attempt to keep Elon Musk’s influence in check.SpaceX is taking note Do the Big Three want to corner SpaceX? | Image by David Goldman While SpaceX hasn’t officially commented, company execs couldn’t help reacting to the news online, as PCMag first noted. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s President and Chief Operating…
“Guess what we just got in the mail?” Asks Double Jump Video Games owner SicCooper in a recent video. “A literal box of poop.” Over the last week, a growing number of video game shops have reported receiving boxes of the 2018 PlayStation 4 game Poop Slinger. Though they say you can’t polish a turd, the game’s rather boutique physical run made it de facto one of the rarest games on the console. With fewer than 100 known copies in the wild, they usually fetch over a thousand in online auctions. Or at least they used to. Receiving such a…
OpenAI is reportedly exploring legal options after Apple’s ChatGPT integration into its products didn’t live up to the AI firm’s expectations. When the deal was announced, Apple likened features linking Siri to ChatGPT to its now-infamous deal embedding Google search in the Safari browser, insiders granted anonymity to discuss the “strained” partnership told Bloomberg. And the promise of that excited OpenAI, which expected the deal “could generate billions of dollars per year in subscriptions,” an OpenAI executive granted anonymity to discuss the partnership told Bloomberg. Instead, OpenAI suspects Apple intentionally failed to promote the integration and fears that the deal…
If you’ve ever wondered why a stranger texted you a suspiciously official-looking “Find My iPhone” link after your phone went missing, here’s your answer. There’s an entire underground economy built around one goal: getting your passcode out of you by any means necessary.How a stolen iPhone turns into a $1,000 paydayA locked iPhone is mostly junk to a thief. According to this report, a stolen iPhone in its locked state fetches only $50 to $200, since it can really only be parted out for components. Unlock it though, and the same phone jumps to between $500 and $1,000.That gap is…
In 2002, Final Fantasy XI was one of the pioneering MMORPG titles on consoles, and Square Enix has kept the world of Vana’diel alive for nearly a quarter century. Now, as the game celebrates its 24th anniversary, Square Enix has announced that the free trial for Final Fantasy XI has been greatly expanded.During a livestream on Square Enix’s Japanese YouTube account (via Reddit), the publisher announced that the previous 14-day version of the free trial is being revamped. The new free trial doesn’t have a time limit and players are free to explore the game’s world as long as they…
AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams have all slipped past editors and peer reviewers, and it’s not always clear if there are any consequences for the people responsible. Now, it appears that a number of scientific fields will be enforcing rules against AI-generated problems even before peer review or journals get involved. One of the people involved in the physics and astronomy preprint server arXiv used a social media thread to announce that any inappropriate AI-produced content submitted to the server will result in a one-year ban…
For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US government would bother pursuing some of the most flagrant bad actors, since Polymarket’s crypto-based platform was technically offshore and not regulated or licensed within the country. Now, however, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees prediction markets, wants you to know that it’s watching very, very closely. The agency is searching for…
Your Pixel’s screen has always been one of its strongest features, especially on the Pro models that hit 3,300 nits without breaking a sweat. But Google just slipped in a small setting that completely transforms how your display looks, and honestly, it’s the kind of thing Samsung and Apple should be paying attention to.What Google’s Comfort Filters actually doGoogle has rolled out a new feature called Comfort Filters on Pixel phones, and tucked inside it is Comfort View. This mode swaps your screen’s standard RGB colors for softer, pastel versions, so reds get gentler, blues get cooler, and the whole…
You know, it’s always been my dream to cover the big news. Today, I’m not bringing you the big news, but I sure am bringing you the BIG news, because Asha Sharma, the CEO of XBOX (more on that shortly), has announced something huge–sorry, HUGE–in a post on X: Xbox is now XBOX. Guess she wasn’t kidding about going “deeper in the areas that matter most.” Sharma put up a poll on X on May 13, with a simple question: “Xbox or XBOX?” The people have cast their votes, and the XBOXs have it, beating out “Xbox” two-to-one. Was this…
AI companionship among asexual people is “not a particularly widespread phenomenon,” says Michael Doré, a board member at the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. “Between us, we’ve come up with about two people we know of who use an AI companion. The vast majority of aces we know don’t, as far as we know. There’s no reason to think aces need to use AI more than any others.”Doré says he has never used an AI as “an emotional support mechanism” and stresses that most asexual people “actually desire some form of human companionship,” whether that’s through close, platonic friendships or…