This week’s top tech news: ISPs ‘running on hope,’ Xbox games coming to other consoles [Antenna]

This week, TekSavvy asked the CRTC to grant ISPs wholesale fibre access, Xbox revealed release dates for games coming to other platforms, and Intel is making custom chips for Microsoft.

In other news, Apple officially said not to use rice to dry out your wet iPhone. Read it all and more below, or subscribe here to get Antenna in your inbox every Friday.

Happy Friday! We've got another issue of Antenna for you after a blessedly short week. Here's what you need to know: ​🤞 - TekSavvy "running on hope" as it asks CRTC to grant wholesale fibre access. 🎮 - Xbox reveals release dates for four games coming to other consoles. 💰 - Québecor's CEO warned Freedom's promotional pricing won't last forever. ​💻 - Intel will make custom chips for Microsoft.     ‘We’ve been running on hope for a very long time:’ TekSavvy asks CRTC to grant ISPs wholesale fibre access TekSavvy, one of Canada’s largest ISPs, said its subscription base has declined by 100,000 subscribers since its peak amid an internet market that doesn’t favour wholesale providers.​ Read more     Xbox sets release dates for four games coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch After a vague tease last week, Xbox has confirmed which four games are heading to rival consoles and when​. Read more   Apple officially says not to use rice to dry your wet iPhone We'll never forget rice's valiant efforts to save our phones 🫡. Read more     Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a childhood dream fulfilled Prepare for another brilliant emotional rollercoaster.       Freedom Mobile’s promotional price strategy won’t last forever, CEO notes The company is working on offering Canadians new services, including bundled home internet, Pierre Karl Péladeau said during a call discussing Québecor's Q4 results. Intel will make custom chips for Microsoft in multi-billion dollar deal Intel says the deal has a lifetime value of over $15 billion USD (about $20.26 billion CAD), and it will see Microsoft's custom chips use the company's 18A process. Vidéotron rolls out international mobile plan with access in 24 countries The plan comes with 25GB of mobile data and costs $70/month.           Google halts Gemini’s image generation after several historical errors The AI tool generated racially diverse people when it was requested to create a group of Nazi-era German soldiers. Read more   Apple claims the iPhone 15’s battery now offers double the lifespan The EU strikes again. Read more     I can’t stop using turrets to kill my friends in Helldivers 2 Arrowhead Game Studio’s third-person shooter is chaotic co-op brilliance.

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