Tech Meme

The Verge: The FTC files to appeal a US court ruling that cleared the way for Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard; the existing TRO expires at 11:59pm PT on July 14  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is appealing a recent US federal court order that cleared the way for Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: The FTC files to appeal a US court ruling that cleared the way for Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard; the existing TRO expires on July 14 at 11:59pm PT  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is appealing a recent US federal court order that cleared the way for Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more  —  Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard’s answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes  —  Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: A former Twitter employee files a proposed class action accusing the company of refusing to pay $500M+ in promised severance to the thousands whom Elon Musk cut  —  Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Xbox tests reactive voice chat moderation, letting Xbox Insiders report 60-second audio clips of inappropriate voice messages for the Xbox safety team to review  —  Rolling out today to Xbox Insiders, the new reporting feature will allow players to capture and submit 60-second audio clips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3, starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”, with cross-platform support  —  / It’s launching in open beta in the ‘coming weeks.’  —  Roblox will be coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets starting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers incorporate tokenized digital assets, such as NFTs, into their Android apps and games  —  The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard MacManus / The New Stack: A look at Meta’s plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, how ActivityPub suits Meta’s goals, and the technical challenges and social pressure facing the company  —  From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta’s Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn’t the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Recursion, which uses AI models for drug discovery, plans to use its 23K+ TB datasets to train its models on Nvidia’s cloud platform and raised $50M from Nvidia  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) invested $50 million to speed up training of biotech firm Recursion’s (RXRX.O) artificial intelligence models … Lees verder op Tech Meme