Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Intel reports Q2 revenue down 15% YoY to $12.9B, Data Center and AI revenue down 15% YoY to $4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 6%+  —  – Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, including a return to profitability after two straight quarters of losses, and a stronger-than-expected forecast. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit starts testing an “Official” label to indicate that an account is authentic, visible on its iOS and Android apps, and unveils accessibility improvements  —  Reddit is starting to test a new “Official” label that will make it easier to spot if an account is authentic. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook’s algorithm is “influential” but doesn’t necessarily change beliefs, and more  —  In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Proprio, which offers a device with multiple cameras and a display that shows real-time 3D visualization of surgery, raised a $43M Series B  —  Surgeries of all kinds have become more and more powerfully assisted by technology, but in most cases it’s still a human holding the scalpel … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google rolls out Android unknown tracker alerts, including manual scan, and pauses a Find My Device update to locate missing items until Apple updates iOS  —  Google today will begin to roll out a new safety feature, unknown tracker alerts, first announced at its developer event Google I/O this spring. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: WhatsApp announces instant video messages, letting users send clips up to 60 seconds in a similar way to voice notes; videos automatically play on mute  —  WhatApp’s latest feature is the ability to quickly send short video messages, similar to the voice messages the service already supports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Makena Kelly / The Verge: The US Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0; critics highlight issues, like forcing companies to collect more user data  —  Congress is closer than ever to passing a pair of bills to childproof the internet after lawmakers voted to send them to the floor Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Filing: US government services contractor Maximus says MOVEit hackers accessed protected health information and other data of “at least” 8M to 11M people  —  U.S. government services contracting giant Maximus has confirmed that hackers exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer accessed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages  —  Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues  —  / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme