Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software  —  – Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free  — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies’ moderation on COVID-19 posts  —  The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox plans to launch on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in October and on Meta Quest headsets later in September, but has no “imminent plans” for Switch  —  Roblox will finally be available on PlayStation soon.  At its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) on Friday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: X sues California over AB 587, which requires social networks to share moderation rules, arguing it interferes with X’s editorial calls protected as free speech  —  Elon Musk’s X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peter Kiefer / The Ankler: Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis’ book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far  —  Apple paid $5M for Michael Lewis’ book, a Nanette Burstein doc is underway, and a who’ll-finish-first race is afoot as the crypto con projects pile up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X is showing some ads in users’ Following feeds without an “Ad” label, indicated only by clicking on the three-dot menu, which could attract the FTC’s attention  —  X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users’ Following feeds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch any MacBook models with an M3 chip “before the end of this year”  —  Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news for Apple fans hoping to see a lineup of M3-powered Macs this year.  According to Kuo, Apple is no longer planning to release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Roblox plans to release coding tools for developers to create subscription-based services for in-platform games and experiences; Roblox will take a 30% cut  —  – Roblox users who are subscribers of the company’s upper-tier premium plans will be able to create and sell 3D goods along … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox plans to let creators that sell assets and tools on its Creator Marketplace keep all of the revenue minus taxes and payment processing fees, from 2024  —  Roblox is going to let creators that sell assets and tools for other creators on its marketplace keep all of the revenue … Lees verder op Tech Meme