Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: At an all-hands, Unity discusses potential changes to its new controversial fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers with $1M+ revenue  —  Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott  —  Video-game tool maker Unity Software Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Federico Viticci / MacStories: Review of iOS and iPadOS 17: a bigger bet on widgets and the modularization of apps, nice tweaks to Stage Manager, but visionOS stole the spotlight this year  —  Well, last year was weird.  —  For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple’s two mobile operating systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft’s former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring  —  Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.’s product chief to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Researchers find a GitHub repo run by Microsoft’s AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, like secret keys and 30K+ Microsoft staff Teams messages  —  Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoel Roth / New York Times: Twitter’s former head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, the Twitter Files, and more  —  When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft Paint gets support for layers and image transparency, 38 years after its launch, rolling out to Windows Insiders first  —  Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: As Google prepares its Gemini multimodal LLM, a source says OpenAI is racing to debut GPT-Vision, which integrates multimodal image and text features into GPT-4  —  As fall approaches, Google and OpenAI are locked in a good ol’ fashioned software race, aiming to launch the next generation of large-language models: multimodal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Apple’s new USB-C AirPods Pro add only dust resistance; an AirPods Pro software update adds Adaptive Audio, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness  —  Last week, as predicted, Apple announced that the second-generation AirPods Pro would start shipping with a USB-C charging case instead … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: AI writing startup Writer, used by L’Oréal, Spotify, and Uber to create digital marketing campaigns, raised $100M led by Iconiq Growth at a $500M+ valuation  —  The company’s technology can write and summarize a wide range of text. … Led by Chief Executive Officer May Habib … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft’s former Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers  —  Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.’s product chief to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers, according to people familiar with the situation. Lees verder op Tech Meme