OpenAI ads, Sony music stake and security moves

Hey, let’s catch up on what’s moved in tech today. OpenAI has started slipping personalized ads into ChatGPT, but you can turn the targeting off if you don’t like it. Over at Google, the Gemini model now decides which video bits to look at, shaving token usage by close to ninety percent. In the entertainment world, Sony Music is buying just over twenty‑three percent of Japan’s GungHo Online Entertainment for roughly two hundred and eighty‑six billion yen, which could blend music and gaming more tightly. On the security front, a joint effort by law enforcement and CrowdStrike finally shut down the twenty‑three‑year‑old Sality botnet. PaperCut warned that two zero‑day flaws are still being exploited, leaving about two hundred servers unpatched. Meanwhile, Russian firm R‑Vision rolled out new SIEM versions with richer analytics, Microsoft’s Edge on Linux now needs newer CPUs, and Russian online stores added digital‑ruble payments. That’s the roundup – ads in AI chat, a big media‑gaming stake, and a flurry of security moves.