Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google tightens Play Store rules, requiring developers to test apps with 20+ users for at least two weeks before release, and plans to invest in its app reviews  —  Google today is announcing strengthened protections for Android developers publishing apps to its Google Play store. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: Arm CEO Rene Haas says Arm is working on a “complex deal” that, if closed by year-end, would boost Q3 revenue, expresses optimism about US-China ties, and more  —  Arm CEO Rene Haas knows that the first rule of post-IPO earnings is to meet or beat Wall Street expectations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: a ransomware attack on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country’s largest bank, prevented it from settling US Treasury trades  —  Chinese bank ‘restoring services’ after hack affected some fixed income and equities transactions  —  A ransomware attack on China’s largest bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Mac: Humane’s Ai Pin features a laser projector that shows info on the user’s palm, a 13MP ultrawide camera, “AI experiences” that don’t require a wake word, more  —  After years of teasing, Humane today fully unveiled its Ai Pin, a wearable camera with laser projector … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Amazon and Meta are testing a feature that shows shoppers real-time prices and lets them buy from Amazon directly via ads on Instagram and Facebook in the US  —  – Consumers can link Amazon accounts to social-media profiles  — Instagram ads urge users to use Amazon purchase button Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training  —  It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed.  —  Image corpora tends to be U.S … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Apple, Google, and Samsung partner with Schlage, Yale, Qualcomm, and NXP to build Aliro, an open standard for smart locks and digital keys, targeting early 2025  —  Launching Thursday, the effort is called Aliro, and if you’ve ever enjoyed using Apple’s Home Key technology on your watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: A bankruptcy court allows Celsius Network to end its bankruptcy case, return some of its users’ deposits, and form a new company focused on mining and staking  —  A bankruptcy judge allowed the onetime crypto lender to return some of its customers’ deposits while forming a new company focused on mining and staking Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says the company now plans to release six live service games by FY 2025, delaying the remaining six from the original 12 titles  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has halved the number of live service games it plans to release over the next few years, it’s confirmed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Review of Valve’s $549 Steam Deck OLED: great screen, longer battery life, and better ergonomics, but refresh rate has issues and still not a stable platform  —  A new screen, a pile of improvements, and better pricing make this everything the original should have been. Lees verder op Tech Meme