Tech Meme

Chainalysis: Crypto crime in H1 2023 vs. H1 2022: inflows to known illicit entities fell 65% YoY, scammers took nearly $3.3B less, and ransomware attackers made $175.8M more  —  2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA will not accept new Microsoft and Activision Blizzard remedies but says a restructured deal may satisfy its concerns, subject to a new investigation  —  Britain’s competition regulator said on Wednesday that a new restructured Microsoft-Activision deal could require a fresh merger investigation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says Roblox will be coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”  —  / It’s launching in open beta in the ‘coming weeks.’  —  Roblox will be coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets starting with an open beta that will be available in the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers have tokenized digital assets like NFTs in apps including 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

Tom Giles / 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

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Buenos Aires-based InvGate, which offers IT service and asset management tools, raised $35M led by Riverwood, its first external funding since its 2009 founding  —  InvGate, a SaaS platform offering information technology service management and IT asset management products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe announces Firefly has generated 1B+ assets on the web and in Photoshop and rolls out the web service globally with support for prompts in 100 languages  —  Adobe today announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google forms an independent advisory board for Travel Impact Model, its open-source tool for predicting the per-passenger carbon emissions of an upcoming flight  —  Google is setting up an independent advisory board to manage its Travel Impact Model (TIM), an open-source tool for predicting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: Domino’s Pizza partners with Uber Eats in the US, the UK, Canada, and 25 other markets, reversing its long-held stance against working with food delivery apps  —  Pizza chain hopes to generate $1 billion in sales after losing business to apps  —  Domino’s Pizza, hungry to claw back pizza sales … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with executives from Alibaba, ByteDance, Meituan, and Xiaohongshu, pledging to reduce compliance costs as China’s economy weakens  —  Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with senior executives from the country’s leading technology firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd … Lees verder op Tech Meme