Tech Meme

Joshua Wolens / PC Gamer: Reddit user sliced_lime, most likely Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg, says Minecraft will no longer post to r/Minecraft due to Reddit’s API pricing changes  —  The Minecraft subreddit won’t be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.  —  If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Binance says euro banking partner Paysafe plans to stop supporting the exchange after September 25, adding to a retreat from the UK, the Netherlands, and more  —  The exchange recently announced retreats from the U.K., Netherlands and Cyprus.  —  Binance’s euros banking partner … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Typeface, which helps businesses train generative AI to create their own content, raised $100M led by Salesforce at a $1B valuation, taking its funding to $165M  —  Typeface Inc., an artificial intelligence startup focused on content creation services for businesses, has raised $100 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Micron reports Q3 revenue down 57% YoY to $3.75B, beating estimates of $3.69B, and forecasts a strong Q4, saying the memory industry has passed its trough  —  Micron Technology Inc. gave an upbeat forecast for the current period, indicating that an industry glut is easing even as the chipmaker continues to face challenges in China. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kellen Browning / New York Times: In court, Satya Nadella says he would love to end “exclusives on consoles”; Bobby Kotick says CoD being exclusive would cause “revolt” and “reputational damage”  —  In federal court, Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick opposed an attempt by the F.T.C … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Hall / Reuters: Chinese livestream shopping shifts from big discounts, as Apple and other brands seek control over a process made costly by market fragmentation and superhosts  —  When tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) joined China’s livestreaming frenzy, a major driving force of the e-commerce boom … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they often struggle with altered and low quality images and sometimes even fail when an image is obviously fake  —  REAL … The pope did not wear Balenciaga.  And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing.  In recent months, however … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: A survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported receiving online hate in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022  —  More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter’s short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads  —  New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Larry Ellison says Oracle will spend “billions” on Nvidia GPUs and “three times” that on Ampere and AMD CPUs this year, as the company grows its cloud services  —  Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) is spending “billions” of dollars on chips from Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme