Nintendo is bringing some of its oldest handheld games to its newest portable platform, with the launch of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games on the Switch, the company announced Wednesday.
Why it matters: These lines of games were very popular in the 90s and early 2000s, but Nintendo hasn't sold them for nearly a decade.
Republicans used a Wednesday hearing they said was designed to highlight Twitter's role in limiting access to 2020 reporting on President Biden's son to air the party's grievances about tech — while Democrats continuously questioned the point of the session.
Driving the news: Three former Twitter executives testified Wednesday before a GOP-led House committee about the company's role in limiting distribution of a story about President Biden's son Hunter's laptop in 2020.
Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's former chief legal officer; James Baker, its former deputy general counsel; and Yoel Roth, its former global head of trust and safety, appeared before the House Oversight Committee.
The U.K.'s competition regulator has "provisionally concluded" that Microsoft's $69 billion bid to buy Activision Blizzard would harm competition in gaming.
Why it matters: Opposition to the deal by the Competitive Markets Authority (CMA), which could be finalized in April, could sink the deal. It suggested the deal should be blocked — or permitted if Activision Blizzard divests itself of its Call of Duty division.
While half of search queries can be answered perfectly well with a few web links or a short answer, Microsoft is betting big that AI-powered responses can better address the other half — potentially giving its Bing search engine a fresh chance to take on Google.
What they're saying: "Half of the 10 billion queries are going unanswered today, or at least without very good answers," longtime Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi told Axios in an interview Tuesday.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its long-expected effort to bring OpenAI's technology to more of its products, including the Bing search engine and Edge browser.
Why it matters: Microsoft trails Google significantly in the search business and thus has more to gain, and less to lose, if the market shifts dramatically.
A ransomware campaign exploiting VMware servers around the world sent security personnel into a fury over the weekend.
Driving the news: Reports started to surface late last week detailing a "global ransomware hacking attack," as Reuters described it, targeting a years-old vulnerability in VMware's popular ESXi machines.
It's not just regulators and lawmakers struggling to make sense of cybersecurity concerns about TikTok — even your Codebook author can't figure out which are overhyped and which are valid.
What's happening: It's now been about a month since I purchased a burner phone solely for TikTok.
A looming U.S. Supreme Court decision on a key internet liability law could upend the business landscape — not just for giant platforms but for small and mid-size firms that fear a massive upheaval.
Driving the news: Later this month the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a case with major implications about how tech platforms host and promote content posted by users.
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