Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry’s unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013  —  Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry’s unstoppable pair, until they fought each other.  An excerpt from the new book Play Nice. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation  —  Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M  —  One of Nvidia’s fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Sony announces seven new games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games  —  Sony has just revealed seven additional games that’ll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday  —  The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021  —  In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits, which don’t require soldering or modifications, will go on sale on September 26 for $50 to $110  —  Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Google’s Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018  —  It’s difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder.  —  Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing the Firefox maker of tracking users without consent  —  Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Chainalysis: inflows to China’s over-the-counter crypto brokers topped $20B in Q4 2023, Q1 2024, and Q2 2024 for $75.4B in total, despite Beijing’s crypto ban  —  – Study signals a record streak of demand for China OTC traders  — Figures add to evidence of Beijing’s crypto ban being flouted Lees verder op Tech Meme