Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: Analysis: London’s Met police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times in total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned  —  Force used the technology 117 times from January to August, up from 32 between 2020 and 2023  —  The use of a controversial form … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nicola M. White / Bloomberg: Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC’s top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11  —  – Grewal helped lead WhatsApp probes, crypto industry crackdown  — SEC official was previously New Jersey’s attorney general Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation  —  The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany’s Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls  —  On the morning of Aug. 19, 2023, Olha Holynska boarded a train in Kyiv with her 6-year-old daughter, Sofiya, to travel to Chernihiv, an ancient city in northern Ukraine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers triggered by sending emails to the SMTP server  —  Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers that can be triggered simply … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app  —  Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover.  The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming “more of a commodity”, OpenAI faces formidable challenges, including burning through cash and intense competition  —  Latest funding round has boosted the company’s valuation to $150bn, but it faces formidable challenges Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press: A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal  —  Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Analysis: Microsoft’s finance leases, mainly for data centers and commencing between FY 2025 and FY 2030, have risen by $100B+ in less than two years to $108.4B  —  As Microsoft investors get ready for quarterly earnings this month, there’s one particular metric that’s become increasingly important: finance leases. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hale / Tubefilter: Twitch now includes raids, which lets streamers who are going offline send viewers to others, in its average viewer count, easing the path to make partner  —  Twitch’s path to partnership is not an easy one.  Any streamer who wants to become an official partner of the platform has to meet … Lees verder op Tech Meme