Bloomberg: Microsoft expands PC Game Pass to 40 new countries, including in Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, taking its total to 86 — The Xbox console has been the key to Microsoft Corp.’s clout in the gaming industry since its release more than two decades ago. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Amazon announces “regular, free” updates for the Kindle Scribe, starting with new brush types and organization tools, to address the device’s mediocre software — Amazon hasn’t said exactly what it plans, but the first new updates drop today. — Update, 5:28pm … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: the EU narrows its long-running Apple antitrust investigation, focusing on preventing apps from telling customers about other subscription options — Antitrust investigation looks at how tech giant deals with subscription information from streaming services such as Spotify Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: The White House plans to require companies seeking CHIPS Act subsidies to limit stock buybacks and share a portion of unanticipated profits with the government — In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian Allison / CoinDesk: DCG reports $719M in revenue and a $1.1B loss in 2022 as the conglomerate faced plunging crypto prices and the restructuring of its Genesis lending platform — DCG held cash and cash equivalents of just $262 million at the end of 2022, while investment assets amounted to $670 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jon Peddie Research: Research: PC-based GPU shipments fell 38% YoY to 64.2M in Q4 2022, with a 24% fall in desktops and 43% in notebooks, the biggest drop since a 2011 peak — Jon Peddie Research reports that the growth of the global PC-based graphics processor unit (GPU) market reached 64.2 million units … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: LastPass says hackers stole password vault data in 2022 by exploiting an RCE flaw in third-party software to install a keylogger on a DevOps engineer’s computer — LastPass revealed more information on a “coordinated second attack,” where a threat actor accessed and stole data … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.1B est., Enterprise revenue up 18% YoY to $636.1M, Enterprise customers up 12% YoY to ~213K; ZM jumps 5%+ — Zoom Video Communications Inc. gained in late trading after giving an upbeat profit forecast for the current period … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple restarted work on an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1 OLED screen and an Apple-designed 5G modem; Ross Young says China’s BOE will supply the display — Apple has restarted development of a fourth-generation iPhone SE with a 6.1-inch OLED display and an Apple-designed 5G chip … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cade Metz / New York Times: AI pioneer and UCSD professor Terry Sejnowski argues that AI chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them — One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them. Lees verder op Tech Meme