Social media’s latest test: policing misinformation about Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Valve has to provide some Steam sales data to Apple, judge says

(credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) A US magistrate judge has ordered Valve to provide sales data to Apple in response to a subpoena issued amid Apple’s continuing legal fight with Epic Games. In addition to some aggregate sales data for the entirety of Steam, Valve will only have to provide specific, per-title pricing and […]

Teardown of All”Dishy McFlatface,” That the SpaceX Starlink user terminal

Ranked Ken Keiter lately came into possession of a single SpaceX Starlink consumer terminalthe satellite dish which SpaceX filmed”Dishy McFlatface.” But rather than plugging it and receiving Net access in SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites, Keiter chose to shoot Dishy aside to find out what is inside. The teardown procedure destroyed parts of the gadget. “I’d […]

Microsoft earnings: Xbox hardware sales shot up 86% with Series X/S

Enlarge / The Xbox Series X, which launched in November. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Microsoft delivered its earnings report for Q2 2021 yesterday, and the company has continued its sprint of very strong quarters, again driven primarily by Azure and the cloud. But that same old story isn’t the only one here: the report also tells […]