Tech Meme

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: A viral clip from Nintendo’s Tears of the Kingdom shows Link unfurling a bridge, wowing game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a year polishing the game  —  What looks simple is actually very hard to make  —  There’s a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Marakuguc Shrine, but it’s broken. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: of 460 companies that did SPAC deals, insiders at 232 sold $22B in shares in well-timed trades; Chamath Palihapitiya made $310M selling Virgin stock  —  Executives and early investors sold shares worth $22 billion  —  The SPAC boom cost investors billions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft issues a temporary fix for Surface Pro X tablets after the devices’ cameras stopped working last week, most likely due to a faulty Qualcomm driver  —  Issues with cameras on some Arm-based devices, including the Surface Pro X, started on May 23rd, with owners reporting they couldn’t use … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Binance names Richard Teng to run all regional markets outside the US, a swift ascension for the executive that joined in August 2021, as CZ comes under fire  —  Binance tapped Richard Teng to head all its regional markets outside of the US, a swift and steady ascension for the executive … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Chegg, Duolingo, and other edtech companies insist generative AI has the potential to enhance their products, despite the threat of being undercut by cheap AI  —  Groups including Chegg and Duolingo say new tech presents opportunities as they fight to compete Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and over 350 others release a statement saying mitigating AI extinction risks “should be a global priority”  —  Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: CCData: trading on Gemini dropped ~50% YoY to ~$747M in April; Kaiko says trading fell 46% in January to April from September to December, ~6x Coinbase’s drop  —  Since going all-in on Bitcoin over a decade ago, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have had their share of ups and downs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: France and Germany dominate the EU’s tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc’s smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation  —  When it comes to technology, the countries making the rules aren’t those leading the field. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions  —  Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar’s 25.3M  —  India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme