Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: A look at the “hectic evolution” of Steam, 20 years after Valve launched the beta, as rivals like the Epic Games Store and Itch.io fail to make much of a dent  —  “Feedback from devs and gamers is always a huge part” of platform’s success, say Valve Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peter Cohen / AppleInsider: The A17 Pro in iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing; Qualcomm and Samsung have released ray tracing-capable mobile chips  —  Apple’s latest flagship, the iPhone 15 Pro, promises the best gaming experience on any smartphone with hardware-based ray tracing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: NGO Save the Children confirms a data breach after cybercrime group BianLian bragged that it had hit “the world’s leading nonprofit” and stolen 6.8TB of data  —  A new low, even for these lowlifes  —  UPDATED Cybercrime crew BianLian says it has broken into the IT systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A profile of The Raine Group, a NY-based tech-focused boutique merchant bank that is headlining Arm’s IPO filing and has become a go-to advisor for SoftBank  —  Tech-focused boutique bank Raine Group has had a long and lucrative relationship with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Mumbai-based Kale Logistics, which offers cloud-based tools to assist airports, seaports, and others with logistics, raised a $30M Series B led by Creaegis  —  Kale Logistics Solutions, an Indian startup offering a vertical SaaS platform to assist logistics needs, has raised $30 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Xcode 15 Release Candidate files show iPhone 15 and 15 Plus have 6GB of RAM and iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max have 8GB of RAM, a 2GB increase for the Pro models  —  Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Hall / Reuters: Alibaba opens its AI model Tongyi Qianwen to the public and plans to make an open source version available for free commercial use “by the whole society”  —  Alibaba said on Wednesday it would open its artificial intelligence model Tongyi Qianwen to the public … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Court filing: the US DOJ claims Elon Musk repeatedly made decisions that likely ran afoul of a 2022 FTC order restricting Twitter’s data security practices  —  The Justice Department makes the accusation in its response to a motion from X asking that the consent decree be dismissed Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Bucharest-based Druid, which offers a conversational AI service to companies, raised a $30M Series B led by TQ Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$50M  —  European AI startup Druid today announced it has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding, as it looks to double … Lees verder op Tech Meme