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A judge has rejected a Tesla deal that helped its CEO, Elon Musk, receive a $56 billion pay package, propelling him to become the richest person in the world. Judge Kathaleen McCormick in Delaware called the compensation an “unfathomable sum,” ruling that he “failed” to prove that it was fair. In her ruling, she wrote that Musk “enjoyed thick ties with the directors tasked with negotiating on...
Since its release in 2020, Microsoft Flight Simulator has undergone an intensive update program from devs Asabo and Microsoft Game Studios. We have had Sim Updates and World Updates, and somewhere along the line, we have reached the 16th of the latter. World Updates take a region of the world and greatly enhance and upgrade scenery, select airports, and generally spruce everything up. The update...
The hugely popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT may have come across its greatest challenge yet after encountering Scots Gaelic. Researchers at Brown University discovered a way to get around the safety guardrails in OpenAI’s powerful GPT-4 system. The trick? Translate harmful prompts into uncommon languages like Scots Gaelic (or Zulu) before asking the AI to respond. The...
Microsoft Edge is increasingly aggressively snatching your open tabs from Google Chrome in an attempt to get you to switch. The new Microsoft Edge has shown to be a good browser since its release in 2020, but Microsoft has never stopped aggressively pushing Edge over competing browsers, mainly Chrome. Google and Microsoft have been at odds over this matter for years; Microsoft even temporarily...
Yelp began in July 2004 in San Francisco, CA, and was founded by Jeremy Soppelman and Russel Simmons. Today, the company announced over 20 updates for consumers and business owners, and they will deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to “describe what you can expect” at a restaurant or club to generate company summaries. “These unique summaries highlight what the business is best known for based on...
New York Attorney General Letitia James has initiated a lawsuit against Citibank, citing the bank’s inadequate response to protecting its customers from online fraud and its refusal to reimburse those who suffered financial losses due to unauthorized transactions. The lawsuit accuses Citibank of violating the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), which requires financial institutions to refund...
PayPal is set to layoff approximately 9% of its workforce, a move announced by CEO Alex Chriss in a recent letter to staff, as per a recent Bloomberg report. This decision comes as the company faces increasing competition, profit pressures, and a series of analyst downgrades. The layoffs, which will affect about 2,500 employees, are part of Chriss’s strategy to streamline the company and enhance...
A prominent Apple analyst anticipates a considerable decrease in iPhone shipments this year. An analyst with Barclays stated in January that nothing unique about the iPhone 16 series would help turn around the device’s falling demand. The analyst downgraded Apple to “Underweight” as a result, while Barclays informed clients in a research note that “we see no features or upgrades that are likely...
Although the video-sharing app TikTok claims to have walled off American data, staff members claim that data is occasionally shared with its parent company in China. According to TikTok, the company has invested $1.5 billion in developing an effort to persuade American lawmakers that the well-known video-sharing app is secure. In order to ensure that the app’s algorithm produced content without...
Frontier Developments brings the spiritual successor of Zoo Tycoon to Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on March 26. The gaming studio founded by David Braben specializes in simulation games, like the critically acclaimed Planet Coaster and the Jurassic World series of park management titles. The studio announced via the Frontier newsroom earlier today that “the ultimate zoo simulation is...