Hackernews posts about Activision

Activision is a leading American video game developer and publisher known for popular franchises like Call of Duty and Skylanders.

1. Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations (www.techspot.com)
   31 points by akyuu 19 days ago | 30 comments
2. Pakistan requires fingerprint scan transfer to govt. db for SIM card activation (www.pta.gov.pk)
   3 points by walrus01 4 days ago | discuss
3. Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
   2 points by surprisetalk about 9 hours ago | discuss
4. Optimizing GEMM and Activation on CDNA4 with TLX (www.amd.com)
   1 points by matt_d 4 days ago | discuss
5. Show HN: Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster? (github.com)
   9 points by vforno 5 days ago | 10 comments
6. Show HN: LymeScribe – one computer on your network transcribes for the rest (transcribe.lymestack.com)
   3 points by interapp 1 day ago | 1 comments
7. Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan (www.pcgamer.com)
   172 points by nabla9 10 months ago | 113 comments
8. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
   121 points by 7777777phil 7 months ago | 51 comments
9. Microsoft Agrees to $250M Settlement with Activision Blizzard Shareholders (www.law.com)
   8 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 months ago | discuss
10. Activision Cut Call of Duty's Build Time by 50% (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    7 points by pjmlp over 1 year ago | 1 comments
11. Video game maker Activision Blizzard laying off California workers (www.siliconvalley.com)
    7 points by thunderbong almost 2 years ago | discuss
12. Activision put awkward pressure to make a game about Iran invading Israel (www.eurogamer.net)
    6 points by spaghetdefects 5 months ago | discuss
13. Microsoft-Activision deal was meant to help The Embracer Grou (www.gamefile.news)
    5 points by firesteelrain 7 months ago | 1 comments
14. Activision takes Call of Duty: WWII offline after reports of RCE exploits (www.tomshardware.com)
    5 points by andrecarini about 1 year ago | discuss
15. Discovering early Activision history in the William Volk papers (gamehistory.org)
    3 points by oldnetguy 11 months ago | 1 comments
16. Activision Admits It Uses Generative AI for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (www.ign.com)
    3 points by mikhael over 1 year ago | discuss
17. Activision "AI slop" Guitar Hero advert is market research for a fake game (www.eurogamer.net)
    2 points by mikhael over 1 year ago | 1 comments
18. Microsoft wins appeal in FTC challenge to $69B Activision Blizzard deal (www.reuters.com)
    2 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | discuss
19. Bobby Kotick, Former CEO of Activision Blizzard; and Bing Gordon [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by doppp over 1 year ago | discuss
20. Activision spent almost $1.8B developing three Call of Duty titles (www.gamedeveloper.com)
    2 points by speckx over 1 year ago | discuss
21. Activision Patch Gallery (www.atariage.com)
    2 points by jgalt212 over 1 year ago | discuss
22. Brodie Lockard: The Amazing Programmer Behind Activision's "Shanghai" [2017] (tedium.co)
    1 points by superfunny over 1 year ago | discuss
23. Activision admits to using AI and CoD players aren't surprised at all (www.dexerto.com)
    1 points by speckx over 1 year ago | discuss
24. 2-Year Call of Duty False Permanent Ban Reversed by Court Case (antiblizzard.win)
    70 points by mdswanson over 1 year ago | 32 comments
25. Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices (www.pcgamer.com)
    11 points by speckx 10 months ago | discuss
26. Section 230 and First Amendment Curtail an Online Videogame Addiction Lawsuit (blog.ericgoldman.org)
    4 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 1 comments
27. ActiBlizzard to lay off 400 employees (finance.yahoo.com)
    4 points by sensanaty almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
28. Reversing Anti-Cheat's Detection-Generation Cycle with Hallucinations (www.activision.com)
    3 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | discuss
29. Microsoft makes Zork open-source (www.theverge.com)
    2 points by magoghm 9 months ago | 1 comments
30. Call of Duty maker goes to war with parasitic cheat developers in federal court (www.latimes.com)
    2 points by PaulHoule 12 months ago | discuss
31. 763-Day Legal Quest Against a Call of Duty Permanent Ban (www.pcgamer.com)
    2 points by mdswanson over 1 year ago | discuss
32. The Neural Light Grid: A Scalable Production-Ready Learned Irradiance Volume (research.activision.com)
    2 points by ibobev almost 2 years ago | discuss
33. Call of Duty live-action film announced (www.cnbc.com)
    1 points by leopoldj 12 months ago | discuss
34. The State of Xbox and Game Pass in 2024 (kotaku.com)
    1 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | discuss
35. The Neural Light Grid: A Scalable Production-Ready Learned Irradiance Volume (research.activision.com)
    1 points by ibobev almost 2 years ago | discuss
36. Window Activation (blog.broulik.de)
    228 points by LorenDB about 1 year ago | 138 comments