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Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

ChiefTech

Take a moment and think about what video games look like, what they sound like, the way you can move on the screen, what “you&# can be. Video games have become sophisticated creations that can take years to develop, weeks to play, and days to go platinum. No category of site is therefore inappropriate for “game think.&#

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Seeing Like a Data Structure

Schneier on Security

A course in data structures is exercise after exercise in building and manipulating abstractions, ones that are typically entirely divorced from the messy, context-laden, real-world data that those data structures will be used to store. We are becoming increasingly aware that things are continuous spectra, not discrete categories.

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European Union Launches Revolutionary Proposals to Regulate “Big Tech”

Data Matters

The Commission would also be able to impose structural remedies, such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell all or part of a business, on companies that repeatedly engage in anticompetitive behavior prohibited by the DMA. The Digital Markets Act. “Gatekeeper” designation. Obligations susceptible to specification.

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Schneier on Security

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. Advertising was the obvious business model, if never the best one. Big Tech needs something to persuade advertisers to keep spending on their platforms. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use.