UK narrows antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision

The UK’s antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today. In February, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally concluded the merger “could harm U.K. gamers” through higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation. Today it’s updated that position — saying new evidence “provisionally…

UK narrows antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision

The UK’s antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today. In February, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally concluded the merger “could harm U.K. gamers” through higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation. Today it’s updated that position — saying new evidence “provisionally…

Fake ChatGPT Chrome Browser Extension Caught Hijacking Facebook Accounts

Mar 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Artificial Intelligence Google has stepped in to remove a bogus Chrome browser extension from the official Web Store that masqueraded as OpenAI’s ChatGPT service to harvest Facebook session cookies and hijack the accounts. The “ChatGPT For Google” extension, a trojanized version of a legitimate open source browser add-on, attracted…