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YouTube TV is a US-only streaming platform. YouTube Premium is global? offering. So they are for different audiences.

This is the one I got... I think readability is the least of the problems.

https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net

Microsoft has agreed to suspend its appeal, whilst they privately negotiate.

There is speculation that Microsoft may diverse its Cloud Gaming service in the UK. Notably Australia and New Zealand have not approved the acquisition either, but will likely provide conditional approval based on the UK arrangement.

I expect it will all be over by Tuesday.

The console gaming industry has stopped growing. And as a result both Microsoft and Sony seem to be now trying to cannibalise each other to grow, and it has become a very tribal and bitter rivalry.

This graphic from Microsoft shows clearly why the console industry is struggling. https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/642...

The early 90's were awash with terrible examples of charts. Honestly, I think business folk for the first time got the tools to create high-quality graphical charts and they went nuts without understanding what they were doing -- no doubt, trying to out do one another and impress their boss.

Yes. Businesses are covered under Australia’s Consumer Protection if the value of the goods or services under consideration is less than A$100,000.

How do you know they are spam bots? What defines a bot from a casual lurker?

Oh, Spore.

That game was hyped so much, given it was designed by none other than Will Wright it previewed like it would be the most amazing game ever made.

Despite it being reviewed every well upon release, gamers expected even more.

It's a good example of how it is important to temper your customer's expectations regardless if you believe you have a solid product, as you may inadvertently set expectations higher than you can possibly achieve.

The timing is interesting. I’m convinced their API’s are either being abused, or will be imminently abused by LLM training.

I wonder how much third party apps are being caught up in this other issue.

The low pressure air below passing trains travelling over 300km/h can cause "ballast lifting". i.e. Where ballast can be lifted up and become mobile causing safety issues, as well as accelerated deterioration of the track.

High-speed trains therefore use concrete track beds.

There is a fair chance that far right republicans disagree with the deal, and force McCarthy back to the negotiating table.

HomeKit is great. HomePod hardware is great. Siri and HomePod software is terrible.

With TSMC laughing all the way to the bank.

The article says that the US needs to provide re-export permission. It’s likely this won’t be granted.

Given Australia is an extremely close US ally, it’s likely these particular F/A-18’s contain top secret components that are not authorised for export to Ukraine.

They also may be stored in an airworthy condition, as a tactical solution for any major escalation in the APAC region.

My understanding is that attack was through a third party that had access to Latitude’s network for legitimate business purposes.

Counter terrorism legislation requires than financial services companies store customer identification.

The issue was not adequately restricting the third party communications into Latitude’s network.

Hopefully they remove the ability to accidentally call 30 people in a chat without warning.

I'd love to see Bakhmut. That city has been under constant siege for the last 6 months.

This is the sentiment that caused Sid Meyer to create Civilization.

That game is Simcity with objectives.

I worked for a university that spent about a million dollars on data storage for a research project. They estimated that they required about a petabyte of storage, so a big expensive storage array was purchased.

In the end the project used just a few terabytes of storage because they miscalculated their requirements.

It was a bit of a running joke that they spent a million dollars, when a $150 SSD would have been fine. They ended up repurposing the storage array (which is when I got involved).

Luckily everyone has now moved to cloud, and life is better.

A notice of remedies has also been published

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63e376bdd3bf7...

The CMA will not demand structural separation for the deal to proceed. However Microsoft must ensure current ip does not become exclusive.

There is no mention of Candy Crush, King, or mobile gaming.

I believe this deal will ultimately go through. The CMA’s concerns appear to be mostly about Call of Duty, whereas Microsoft appears to be mostly interested in Activision Blizzard’s mobile gaming business.

Perhaps Microsoft could agree to exclude Call of Duty from the acquisition, as a possible remedy.

I believe most of these icons are embedded in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll file.

Also check out C:\WINDOWS\system32\moricons.dll for even older icons.

Under Australia's "No Jab, No Pay" laws, families cannot receive government taxation benefits for their unvaccinated children. In addition, some states require an up to date vaccination record to be enrolled in pre-school, kindergarten, and in some states, primary school.

Interestingly, it was News Limited (parent company of Fox News) that championed these laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Jab,_No_Pay

Agreed. At the turn of the century, Argentina was a similarly prosperous country to the United States.

I’m sure given an investment in Argentina’s stock market in 1900, it would have now been lost many times over.

Java?

Calls from public telephones are now free, they now also provide free wifi.

It does seem that the legal benefit of free space and electricity, and the commercial benefit of high foot traffic locations is too great for Telstra to simply give up these installations.

What is surprising is the Data Centre figure is by far the largest component of their revenue, more than twice that of "gaming" and close to double what it was in Q4 FY21.

That's phenomenal growth for a product category that was a very short time ago almost exclusively desktop-only. I guess ML workloads are huge and here to stay.

This is the only one unfortunately…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming

The Atari VCS's RAM size of 128 bytes restricts the possibilities for writing programs.

That’s not a typo, and also a severe limitation.

Why is Apple is being attacked for not providing a viable platform-level messaging solution to a mobile platform they don't own or control. Isn't that Google's job?

I saw this announcement being more guaranteeing US onshore chip fabs are being built as demand increase.

The rise of TSMC has somewhat increased the national security risk as the market share has shifted away from Intel. We are seeing with the Ukraine War, a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors is now critical to national security.

I expect Intel will continue to be helped along by the US government for some time.