Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU’s DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users’ privacy and security  —  Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday hit out at Meta Platforms (META.O), saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker’s software tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Judd / Eurogamer.net: Sony details PS5 Pro specs, including its GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 with 16.7TF of performance and ray tracing improvements, and announces a partnership with AMD  —  Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware.  —  When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Micron reports Q1 revenue up 84% YoY to $8.71B, in line with est., Q2 revenue forecast below est. due to sluggish phone and PC demand; MU drops 13%+ after hours  —  – Strong AI growth isn’t offsetting a slowdown elsewhere  — Micron CEO cites weakness in consumer-oriented markets Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Threads rolls out a way to reshare photos and videos without quote posting the original post, while crediting the original poster; users can disable the feature  —  Threads is rolling out a new feature that lets you share someone’s photos and videos without including the original post. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake gaming performance issues, fixing four of five root causes, and plans a new update for January  —  Time to test.  —  Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier this month, up from a $3B valuation in June  —  The company’s valuation has tripled since June. … The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and completed earlier this month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub makes its Copilot free in VS Code, with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023  —  Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has halted work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since around 2022  —  – Much-delayed program had been in development since around 2022  — Company also shut down Pay Later offering earlier this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI rolls out a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging it via WhatsApp globally  —  OpenAI on Wednesday rolled out a new way to talk to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT.  —  By dialing the U.S. number (1-800-242-8478) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS  —  Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted. Lees verder op Tech Meme