Tech Meme

Nadia Asparouhova / Wired: As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash  —  The code-hosting platform’s headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk’s $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake  —  Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party  —  Now that Twitter’s API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aidan Ryan / The Information: Source: MoonPay insiders, including CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, cashed out $150M in shares as part of the crypto payment startup’s $555M Series A in November 2021  —  In November 2021, just as crypto prices were hitting all-time highs, MoonPay—a crypto payments startup that celebrities including Jimmy Fallon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: HP reports Q2 revenue down 22% YoY to $12.91B, vs. $13.07B est., Personal Systems revenue down 29% YoY to $8.18B, and Printing net revenue down 5% YoY to $4.74B  —  HP Inc (HPQ.N) on Tuesday missed Wall Street targets for second-quarter revenue, hurt by a slowdown in the personal computer market … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: HPE reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $7B, vs. $7.3B est., HPC & AI revenue up 18% YoY to $840M, and Intelligent Edge revenue up 50% YoY to $1.3B; HPE drops 5%+  —  HP CEO expects PC sales to rebound in the second half of the year and notes that AI will ‘redefine what PCs can do’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: A Chinese government report says Chinese organizations launched 79 LLMs in the country over the past three years, vs. US organizations launching 96 in the US  —  Chinese organisations launched 79 large-language models (LLMs) in the country over the past three years as they doubled down on efforts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro  —  We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like health sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro  —  We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Bell / @emilybell: [Thread] An AI-generated ad from a blue-check Twitter user linking to The Guardian and falsely saying TV presenter Ian Wright died highlights Twitter’s issues  —  Welcome to the @elonmusk advertising nightmare. Friend sent me this tweet asking wtaf the @guardian url is doing on this weird AI generated ad suggesting (incorrectly) that Ian Wright is dead . The link goes to an old page on the Guardian site 1/ [image] Lees verder op Tech Meme