Tech Meme

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Activision Blizzard lays off ~50 esports employees and asks Overwatch League teams to vote on an updated operating agreement, and to decide the league’s future  —  Amid layoffs in the Activision Blizzard esports department, Overwatch League franchise owners will vote on whether to continue the league in its current format. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Autonomous trucking company Aurora Innovation raised $600M in a private placement of its stock, at $2.70/share, and plans a ~$220M public offering, at $3/share  —  Aurora Innovation, the self-driving technology company that aims to launch an autonomous trucking business in 2024 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: Troy Hunt: sensitive info of ~4,000 people who attended Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak just now  —  This may cost the company a few Robux.  —  The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta rolls out Quest v56, featuring Hand Tracking 2.2, which the company claims reduces latency by up to 40% in typical usage and up to 75% during fast movement  —  The Meta Quest v56 update brings a range of improvements and new features to Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner leaves OpenAI citing the pressures of the job on his family life and says he would be available for advisory work  —  OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner is leaving the company, he said in a LinkedIn post on Friday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Telegram launches Stories for its Premium users, letting users control who can see their stories and how long they last before disappearing  —  You can display them forever or make them disappear at various times up to 48 hours.  —  Telegram’s new Stories feature is here as promised … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal: Sensor Tower: Threads’ DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads’ app declined to four mins, down from 19  —  Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tiger Global, Peak XV, and other investors ask India to reconsider its new 28% tax on online gaming as it will lead to a write-off of $2.5B and loss of 1M jobs  —  Tiger Global, DST Global, Peak XV, Steadview Capital, and Kotak Private Equity are among global and Indian investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: A look at Samsung’s and Texas Instruments’ chip fabs in Texas, as the state becomes a US chipmaking hub with six projects totaling $61B and creating 8K+ jobs  —  WATCH NOW  —  How Texas became the center of U.S. chipmaking  —  On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit’s API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit  —  Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform’s API pricing changes. Lees verder op Tech Meme