Kris Holt / Engadget: Sony plans to release its PS5 accessibility controller on December 6, with preorders starting July 21, for $90 in the US, £80 in the UK, and €90 in Europe — The highly customizable Access controller comes with several button and stick caps. — Sony has revealed … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay an FTC deposition of Elon Musk — The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sara Fischer / Axios: The AP and OpenAI sign a two-year deal; the AP gets access to OpenAI’s tech in return for licensing some of its text archive dating back to 1985 for AI training — The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports, starting with MLB in March 2022, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him — In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, was asked the extent to which he … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: The US arrests and charges former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with six counts, including wire fraud; the SEC, CFTC, and FTC sue Mashinsky and the crypto company — Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive officer of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A writer details using AI startup Writer’s LLM to generate text in his writing style and says that most of the tool’s “insights” felt hollow or approximated — A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Hals / Reuters: A US judge says Ripple’s institutional XRP sales constituted the unregistered sale of investment contracts and sends the case to trial to decide SEC claims — U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said Ripple Labs Inc’s institutional sales of its XRP digital token violated federal law … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Nothing Phone (2) review: neat light strips, useful always-on display, and four-year software support, but only splash resistant and not certified on Verizon — Form, function, and a good midrange phone. … The Nothing Phone 2 is better than the Phone 1 in a lot of small ways. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay a deposition of Elon Musk — The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill Lees verder op Tech Meme
Yu Nakamura / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: the total sales of Foxconn, TSMC, and 17 more major IT companies in Taiwan fell 19.8% YoY to ~$35B in June 2023, the largest drop since at least 2013 — Industry’s sales fall 20% in June on weak global demand for electronic devices — Demand for Apple and other electronic devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme