Proprietary: Google, Microsoft, and Apple Problems
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Google Bard “AI” Hallucinates the Details of Michael Pratt, One of the GirlsDoPorn Criminals.
Michael Pratt was on the FBI's ten most wanted list. He entered the United States from New Zealand, started a porn company, and ended up facing rape, kidnapping, sex crimes involving minors, and bankruptcy fraud.
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Halo veteran Joseph Staten is leaving Microsoft
A writer and designer on three previous Halo games and Destiny, Staten joined the Infinite team after the game was delayed from its original 2020 release date.
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Joseph Staten Reportedly Leaving Microsoft
Joseph Staten had a huge roll at Microsoft following his departure from Bungie nearly a decade ago. He voluntarily took on a creative lead role in 2020 at 343 Industries. Following the subpar gameplay shown for Halo Infinite during the Xbox Games Showcase that year. While he did course correct Halo Infinite and ensured it launched in 2021. The game was still lacking in iconic features that became mainstays in the Halo franchise.
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Seattle-area office market vacancy continues to rise amid layoffs, inflation [Ed: Mass layoffs at Microsoft]
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Safari releases are development hell - Ashley's blog
Safari 16.4 rolled out last week, and for us it's been a nightmare. We make the browser-based game creation app Construct. Early versions of Safari 16.4 broke opening projects, previewing projects, and all existing content published with Construct, all in different ways. I wanted to share our experience so customers, developers, regulators, and Apple themselves can see what we go through with what is supposed to be a routine Safari release.
Most browsers provide pre-release versions for early testing. For example Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly update daily, and there's also less frequent dev and beta releases. Apple provide Safari Technology Preview (STP), but it's only for macOS, and does not update to any public schedule. It seems to be about once every 2 weeks. Pre-release browsers are usually pretty rocky with obvious issues that get sorted out soon enough. However when things start making their way to beta, it's time to look more closely. So when Safari 16.4 beta 1 was announced on February 16th (also not to any public schedule), we started taking a closer look - and there were a lot of problems.