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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) 23-04-2025

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Meta’s Oversight Board says Meta’s new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users  —  Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: Intel is set to unveil plans this week to cut 20%+ of staff, its first major restructuring under Lip-Bu Tan; Intel had 108,900 workers in December 2024 (Bloomberg) 23-04-2025

Bloomberg: Source: Intel is set to unveil plans this week to cut 20%+ of staff, its first major restructuring under Lip-Bu Tan; Intel had 108,900 workers in December 2024  —  Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets (Bloomberg) 23-04-2025

Bloomberg: Elon Musk says production of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China’s recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets  —  Speaking on the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance (Connor Jones/The Register) 23-04-2025

Connor Jones / The Register: The UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance  —  What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem  —  Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany's leading legal publisher (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch) 23-04-2025

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher  —  Back in 2020, Xayn was a privacy-based, on-device AI startup designed specifically for smartphones. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at New Mexico's efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) 23-04-2025

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: A look at New Mexico’s efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies  —  Partnerships between the state, its universities and its national labs demonstrate the Mountain West’s ambitions in quantum technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January, asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) 23-04-2025

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Meta’s Oversight Board says Meta’s new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January, asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups  —  Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance (Connor Jones/The Register) 23-04-2025

Connor Jones / The Register: UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance  —  What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem  —  Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Study: models like OpenAI's o3 outperform expert virologists in wet lab problem-solving, which might accelerate research but could also be abused by bad actors (Andrew R. Chow/Time) 23-04-2025

Andrew R. Chow / Time: Study: models like OpenAI’s o3 outperform expert virologists in wet lab problem-solving, which might accelerate research but could also be abused by bad actors  —  A new study claims that AI models like ChatGPT and Claude now outperform PhD-level virologists in problem-solving in wet labs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture (Ryan Broderick/Wired) 23-04-2025

Ryan Broderick / Wired: A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture  —  It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.  But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy. Lees verder op Tech Meme