Tech Meme

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Q&A with Phil Spencer on growing Game Pass, Microsoft’s mobile focus, streaming Starfield and other games on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more  —  Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes – and why the company won’t ditch Series S.  —  Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: To comply with the EU DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more details on EU ad targeting, increase researcher access, and more  —  Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filings: FTX wants to begin selling, staking, and hedging its crypto holdings, valued at over $3B, and seeks to hire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy as an advisor  —  The bankrupt exchange wants to return funds to creditors in dollars without denting value.  —  Register Now Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A vessel should repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~10K miles from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruption to all South African networks  —  – Cable-layer vessel Leon Thevenin moored in Cape Town  — Rock fall in Congo Canyon damaged West Africa cable system Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dave Sebastian / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Vietnamese internet company VNG aims to raise ~$150M in its US IPO and targets a debut at the end of September; VNG reported $166.3M in H1 2023 revenue  —  Company is targeting a trading debut by the end of September, sources say  —  Vietnamese internet company VNG aims … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Amazon Luna on LG smart TVs released between 2021 and 2023 and running webOS 6.0 or later, after debuting Luna on Samsung TVs in August 2022  —  LG is teaming up with Amazon to bring the Amazon Luna cloud-based game streaming service on its smart TVs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Apple says the company supports California’s Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote  —  In a surprise move, Apple this week penned a letter to California state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, voicing support for SB 244 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: How LLMs designed for chat interactions turned AI into a general purpose tool, as AI undergoes transformation much like semiconductors gave rise CPUs and GPUs  —  Until recently, AI models were specialized tools.  Modern LLMs are different.  —  The chief technology officer of a robotics startup told … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Epic Games announces the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch games exclusively on the Epic Games Store  —  Games and apps in the Epic First Run program will also benefit from extra exposure on the storefront. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: TikTok plans to bar links to Amazon and other e-commerce sites to force people to use TikTok Shop; source says Shop will lose $500M+ in the US in 2023  —  The cost of TikTok’s online shopping expansion in the U.S. is beginning to add up.  —  TikTok Shop, the app’s nascent shopping service … Lees verder op Tech Meme