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question was published by the UK's competition and markets Authority which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a towering Behemoth that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump like Godzilla I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible nobody would buy it yourself subscribe I don't really get it but Samsung has finally done something about the rapid Health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 Pro ssds like some kind of flag flag lesions reports from the owners of the model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart Health deteriorating extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a disease or perhaps a plague Samsung has now released a firmware update for the 990 Pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further unfortunately does not reverse the deterioration that's already occurred that SSD's leg will always have some scarring the issue is a much worse one than the glitch that caused Samsung's 980 Pro ssds to get stuck in read mode which was completely healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago I don't know what Samsung did differently with this generation of ssds but maybe it should get immunized before it goes traveling to Exotic locations on account of the plague flag flag what do you say plague plague bagel bagel bagel and Amazon has gradually taken a bigger and bigger cut of sales made through its marketplace with the Commerce Giant's average share of each transaction surpassing 50 for the first time back in 2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now even Amazon they got bills to pay the news comes from a study by Marketplace pulse showing that with Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing delivery fees advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average product's price steadily Grew From 35.2 percent in 2016 the Before Time 251.8 percent in 2022. one could argue that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and increasing sales if one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar story sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers asking whether a 50 cut is Justified in this economy you looked at the charts it's an economy that makes you want to fix your own things instead of buying new ones so it's a good thing today's quick bits are brought to you by iFixit maker of compact toolkits with all the essential bits you need to fix your electronics from minikits with 16 bits to full repair kits to help you start your own repair business iFixit as you covered use ifix's over 70 000 repair manuals complete with photos and step-by-step instructions so you can feel like you're playing Lego but actually doing something useful hey useful useful for hurting your feet and you can do those useful things worry free knowing that you've got Quality Parts backed by ifix's lifetime warranty so fix your stuff today with iFixit at ifixit.com TechLinked you can fix the train I tried to put a quick bit into the LTT screwdriver once it did not like that it was not try that again not quick okay honky MC trainerson like who's on the tracks no one get it you're we have officially entered the era of semi-convincing deep fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tick tock he found which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a cloned AI voice that of course wouldn't convince me but could definitely convince your grandma who loves Joe Rogan huge fan and who's in the market for male enhancement pills that he's already because Grandpa Tech YouTuber eposvox also spotted a deepake scam for a brand called povision which also happens to be a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an update that will roll out tomorrow February 14th I guess I.E is no longer Microsoft's Valentine that's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge instead which is actually pretty decent especially if you have access to the new but a bing that's slowly taking everyone's job literally in the case of Internet Explorer Edge has an ie mode if you're ever feeling nostalgic for something worse let's get crazy tonight a report from the information claims that Tick Tock is working on a number of new features that could reward creators with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll Gremlins tick talkers May soon have the option of charging viewers for certain content out of the only fans and a revamped Creator fund that might result in more consistent payouts after all tick tock has to do something in response to YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme even if it still has big problems like not giving creators any AD revenue from the first ad in a viewing session that's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on it's a special yeah yeah we wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it blue origin one of the world's Myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire quietly announced something extremely cool last week the company's blue Alchemist program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil Paving the way for future Moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing the good old Moon dirt 100 Moon Dirt Band mooner inside the Moon we're talking solar freaking lunar roadways okay that's a bit of a jump now Elon just needs to figure out a way to do the same thing with Mars dirt and will have proper space war in our hands Moon dirt versus Mars dirt oh they're all red and white and some sports ball fans in Philadelphia were no doubt mortified when their 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