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Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A hotfix for a hot mess.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has had a pretty rough launch, and now Microsoft has put out a hotfix aimed at addressing some of the performance and stability issues. “We will continue to investigate any issues and keep the community informed,” says game lead Jorg Neumann.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Tech companies are laying low at the UN climate summit.

“We don’t have anything there this year,” Meta told the Financial Times.

The annual UN summit is arguably the biggest climate event of the year, and typically an opportunity for tech companies to grandstand. But Big Tech’s obsession with AI has led to growing greenhouse gas emissions, pushing companies further away from climate goals.

Is AI hitting a wall?Is AI hitting a wall?
Alex Heath
Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
They’re reaching, your honor.

A federal judge denied OpenAI’s bid to force The New York Times to reveal how its reporters use AI tools, ruling that the discovery request was overly broad. The ruling’s final metaphor gives you a hint of how silly the judge found the whole thing:

“If a copyright holder sued a video game manufacturer for copyright infringement ... the video game manufacturer would not be entitled to wide-ranging discovery concerning the copyright holder’s employees’ gaming history.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
One free Connections archive: gone.

After receiving a cease and desist letter from The New York Times, the owner of a Connections creator that also had a full archive of the NYT’s puzzles has removed it. You can still make puzzles on the site and play other creations, if you want.

A screenshot of a message about the Connections archive being taken down.
That “Here’s why” link points to my piece from earlier this week.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge