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

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox announces Roblox Connect, letting users video chat with other people as their Roblox avatar in a shared virtual space, available later in 2023  —  Roblox is launching its own take on video chat called Roblox Connect, the company announced at its Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) 2023 on Friday. 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

Alan Rappeport / New York Times: The IRS says it has started using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships, large hedge funds, PE groups, and others  —  The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms. 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

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms and Nvidia partner to build an LLM trained on India’s languages and AI cloud infrastructure that outperforms India’s top supercomputer  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained … 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

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft’s device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but its cloud gaming work has slowed  —  With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which sells tools that map out companies’ IT architecture, sources say for $1.2B+; LeanIX had raised almost $120M  —  As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize … Lees verder op Tech Meme