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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2023
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=> ↺ Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'
Amit Zavery, vice president, general manager and head of platform at Google Cloud, who talked to us about this in June when he described Microsoft's actions as a "software tax" customers are forced to pay, says things haven't changed.
"I was meeting many customers this week," he told The Register, "quite a few CIOs and others, and they're still facing the same issues in terms of exclusionary licensing practices from Microsoft. They can't move their existing licenses, and they're having to pay a penalty or a tax to Microsoft."
=> ↺ MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More
Now, while MSN has yet to respond to our initial request for comment, it appears to have taken down the offending article, alongside several other Race Track articles identified by Futurism. The deleted articles include a recent piece about Kevin Porter Jr's arrest for domestic violence and another particularly egregious piece about "Corridor of Fame" football player "Pleasure Taylor," likely a deeply confused reference to NFL Hall of Famer Joy Taylor.
Despite MSN taking down the articles, Race Track is still publishing a barrage of barely intelligible gibberish — and MSN keeps syndicating them. Just an hour before press time, the shadowy publication published a story titled "7 Causes to Strive Golfing as a Scholar," which appears to be a ripoff of a 2022 article put together by Golf Monthly.
=> ↺ Casinos Shut Down Amid Hacker Intrusions
On Monday, MGM Grand casinos across the US were forced to shut down after a mass cyberattack compromised the company's computer systems, granting bad actors access to casino and hotel operations in "Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York and Ohio," a casino rep confirmed to the Associated Press on Tuesday.
=> ↺ Greater Manchester Police ransomware attack another classic demo of supply chain challenges
Assistant Chief Constable Colin McFarlane of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: "We are aware of a ransomware attack affecting a third-party supplier of various UK organizations, including GMP, which holds some information on those employed by GMP."
It is understood it concerns thousands of ID badges, which contain the names and pictures of police officers. Two police sources confirmed the hack to the M.E.N.
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