Fox Corporation has agreed to acquire Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at approximately $22 billion, structured as a combination of cash and Fox Class A common stock at $160 per share. Once complete, the merger would make the combined entity the third-largest force in U.S. television by share of viewing. Fox…
The Federal Communications Commission was roundly criticized today for proposing to scale back or eliminate E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year Universal Service program that provides discounts for telecom services and equipment in schools and libraries. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said E-Rate should be changed because students are getting too much screen time. He led a 2-1…
Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the agency expedited its antitrust review. Mesh Optical came out…
“While several organizations successfully blocked the activity or remediated the vulnerabilities, others experienced compromise, resulting in stolen data being published on the ShinyHunters DLS,” Mandiant said. (DLS is short for data leak site.) An analysis of a bash script left in the staging environment shows the attackers performed reconnaissance on compromised organizations, including mapping the…
Limitations: Omni offers 10-second video generations currently, with longer durations coming soon. Uploading audio references and scene extension is not yet supported in the Gemini API for this model. Video references up to 3 seconds in duration are accepted by the API schema but are not correctly processed by the model at this time. Character…
This will impact Home Assistant users and those who rely on similar third-party tools. Samsung just announced it’s going to start charging for SmartThings API access, which is the company’s smart home automation platform. Most of these changes impact software developers and other commercial partners, but there is a way this could hit regular users…
iOS 26 is here! Here’s what you need to know about the latest software update from Apple. Source link
Despite GTA 6 pre-orders stealing the headlines this week, another game you can play right now actually just hit store shelves. Of course, I’m talking about Nintendo’s Star Fox remake, which I recently gave a glowing review. I still remember inserting the Rumble Pak into the back of my N64 controller and booting up Star…
Discord is one of those apps that has helped kill off good ol’ internet forums. If you look hard enough, you can find a Discord server for most any niche hobby, online course, or fandom of choice. I’d been aware of the app for a while, but I didn’t join Discord myself until I found…
