Tech Meme

Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI says that China-based SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails to its staff  —  The unsuccessful effort involved posing as a ChatGPT user. … OpenAI said a group with apparent ties to China tried to carry … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Vowell / Washington Post: A profile of National Archives and Records Administration Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency’s project to digitize its 13B+ records  —  Sarah Vowell on the National Archives  —  “You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test  —  That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding  —  While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI startups that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth  —  MiniMax, ByteDance and 01.ai launch apps overseas to boost revenue growth  —  Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and says it has 63M monthly unique users, up from 55M in September 2021  —  Workplace and salary review platform Glassdoor is drawing inspiration from LinkedIn’s roadmap as it is launching short videos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2’s final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update  —  Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”  —  – Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription, adding 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US  —  Amazon is revamping its subscription offerings for its Ring video doorbells and cameras.  —  A new service, called Ring Home Premium … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Liana Baker / Bloomberg: KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software’s $2.3B in revenue  —  – Tech provider to become standalone firms BMC and BMC Helix  — BMC had pursued IPO at a valuation of up to $15 billion Lees verder op Tech Meme