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Emma Roth / The Verge: Threads rolls out a way to reshare photos and videos without quote posting, but still crediting the original poster; users can turn off the resharing feature  —  Threads is rolling out a new feature that lets you share someone’s photos and videos without including the original post. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon delayed RTO dates for some staff in at least seven cities, like Austin, Dallas, and Phoenix, by up to four months, citing a lack of office space  —  – Company is struggling to find space in at least seven cities  — Start dates are being pushed back as much as four months Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta for Android, iOS, and iPadOS  —  Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake’s gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update for January  —  Time to test.  —  Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier in December, up from a $3B valuation in June 2024  —  The company’s valuation has tripled since June. … The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and completed earlier this month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has halted work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since 2022 and set to launch then  —  – Much-delayed program had been in development since around 2022  — Company also shut down Pay Later offering earlier this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Chinese self-driving trucking company TuSimple rebrands to CreateAI, in a pivot to generative AI for video games and animation, and debuts its first model, Ruyi  —  Embattled Chinese autonomous trucking company TuSimple has rebranded to CreateAI, focusing on video games and animation, the company announced Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Elon Musk has tapped Steve Davis, who oversaw Twitter’s cost-cutting, former US CTO Michael Kratsios, and others to interview potential DOGE candidates  —  – Executive from Boring, ex-Trump aide help in hiring push  — Musk’s DOGE initiative seeks to cut government spending, size Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Micron reports Q1 revenue up 84% YoY to $8.71B, in line with est., Q2 revenue forecast below est. due to sluggish phone and PC demand; MU drops 15%+ after hours  —  – Strong AI growth isn’t offsetting a slowdown elsewhere  — Micron CEO cites weakness in consumer-oriented markets Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023  —  Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme