Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $988.2M, bookings up 21% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.37B est., and DAUs up 19% YoY to 85.3M, vs. 88.4M est.; RBLX falls 15%+  —  – Roblox had 85.3 million daily active users in fourth quarter  — The company’s quarterly bookings reached $1.36 billion Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: In Q4 2024, AMD outsold Intel in the data center area for the first time, with revenue up 69% YoY to $3.86B, vs. Intel’s $3.4B, but analysts expected more sales  —  But sales of Instinct GPUs disappoint.  —  AMD on Tuesday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors  —  Joseph Firmage helped create today’s digital economy.  These days, he’s being sued by antigravity-machine investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Canalys: Worldwide tablet shipments grew 9.2% YoY in 2024 to 147.6M units, after three consecutive years of decline; Xiaomi grew 51.4% and Apple grew 13.8%  —  According to the latest data from Canalys, worldwide tablet shipments grew 5.6% year on year in Q4 2024, reaching 39.9 million units. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Stanford and University of Washington AI researchers claim they trained AI reasoning model s1, distilled from a Gemini 2.0 model, for under $50 in cloud compute  —  AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, raised $19M led by Intel Capital, taking its total funding to $21M, and claims 30 customers  —  TrueFoundry, a startup run by a group of former Meta engineers to help enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, has raised $19 million in fresh investment led by Intel Capital. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Spanish police arrest a hacker for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks on critical public and private organizations, seizing 50 crypto accounts, PCs, and more  —  The Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker in Alicante for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks targeting critical public … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% to $988.2M, bookings up 21% YoY to $1.36B, below est., DAUs up 19% YoY to 85.3M, below 88.4M est.; RBLX falls 20%+ pre-market  —  The company also lowered its bookings estimates for 2025.  —  The number of daily active users in the fourth quarter rose to 85.3 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Hall / Reuters: Trump’s de minimis cancellation is likely to hit Shein harder than online dollar-store Temu, which has shifted to an Amazon-like bulk overseas shipment strategy  —  The Trump administration move to stop low-cost imports entering the U.S. tariff-free is likely to hit fast fashion retailer Shein harder … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI opens ChatGPT search to users who are not logged in, after launching it to paying subscribers in October 2024 and logged-in users in December 2024  —  OpenAI is making its AI search engine more accessible.  —  OpenAI is making its AI search engine more accessible. Lees verder op Tech Meme