Tag: oculus

Chris and Ian discuss Facebook, Privacy Laws, Solarwinds, Stadia and Cyberpunk

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• The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp
• Facebook hit with antitrust probe for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
• Online harms bill: firms may face multibillion-pound fines for illegal content
• EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
• Facebook to move all UK users onto US agreements
• Apple launches its new app privacy labels across all its App Stores
• Facebook highlights small businesses as it ramps up Apple criticism
• China-based Zoom employee charged for secretly censoring Tiananmen Square anniversary events
• Google suffers global outage with Gmail, YouTube and majority of services affected
• SolarWinds: Why the Sunburst hack is so serious
• US cyber-attack: Hack of government agencies and companies poses ‘grave risk’
• Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack, identifies 40 more precise targets
• Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal
• Microsoft reportedly designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs
• Apple announces $549 over-ear headphones, the AirPods Max
• EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1bn
• Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow
• Stadia is now on iOS, but not through the App Store
• Xbox cloud gaming coming to iOS and PC in spring 2021
• Cyberpunk 2077 maker apologizes for terrible PS4/Xbox One launch, promises refunds
• Sony offering Cyberpunk 2077 refunds, pulls game from PlayStation Store