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Wall Street Journal: Discord plans to start showing gaming ads from next week, called Sponsored Quests and offering rewards for in-game tasks; users can turn them off in settings  —  The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions Source link

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2023 is now live for all shoppers. The festival sale that started on Sunday, October 8, brings offers on a wide range of products, including home appliances, smartphones, Amazon devices, laptops, cameras and more. Additionally, SBI credit card holders can get an additional 10 percent instant discount on top of

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: IEEE stops accepting papers with the “Lenna image”, featuring a 1972 Playboy model, after complaints that it makes some women feel unwelcome in computer science  —  Use of “Lenna” image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s. Source link

Fighting games are not my forte, but I’m always enthralled by their ability to suck you in with an easy-to-learn yet hard-to-master formula. It’s a trait that NetherRealm Studios has embraced by including over-the-top violence and flashy animations, so scrubs like me can jump in and have a jolly good time ripping spines with jellified

Mariella Moon / Engadget: X says it is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her ex-employer Block, after being allegedly sacked for her X posts about refugees and trans people  —  Happe accused Block of terminating her for expressing views Block didn’t agree with.  —  X is funding a lawsuit filed … Source

WhatsApp is now rolling out a notable change to the user interface for the app on Android smartphones. The Meta-owned messaging service has announced that has moved the four navigation tabs at the top of the screen to the bottom. The updated visual interface was enabled on the beta version of the app for the

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: AT&T confirms that data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders  —  US telco giant takes action after 2019 data breach  —  Phone giant AT&T is reseting customer account passcodes after a huge cache … Source link

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023 sale began over the weekend and the ongoing sale has brought a range of discounts and offers on consumer electronics and household appliances. In addition to discounts on various products, you can also avail of a 10 percent instant discount when using an SBI bank card for purchases during the

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Tech CEOs looking to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical, turn to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman  —  Tech CEOs have a growing set of ways to sidestep traditional media.  But first…  Don’t press Source link

OpenAI is sharing early results from a test for a feature that can read words aloud in a convincing human voice — highlighting a new frontier for artificial intelligence and raising the specter of deepfake risks. The company is sharing early demos and use cases from a small-scale preview of the text-to-speech model, called Voice