Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: A look at Calliope Networks, a content licensing company whose License to Scrape program is targeting YouTubers to strike their own AI training data agreements  —  While big platforms like Reddit have signed deals with the AI giants, YouTube leaves licensing in the hands of individual creators. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: In the past year, one researcher reported vulnerabilities in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of courts, state agencies, and police departments in the US  —  With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.  —  Public records systems that courts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: Google starts construction of a new $2B data center in Malaysia, says its investments would create 26,500 jobs and contribute $3B+ to Malaysian economy by 2030  —  Google (GOOGL.O) said on Tuesday its investments in Malaysia would create 26,500 jobs and contribute more than $3 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: YC-backed PearAI criticized for forking another AI code editor covered under the Apache license and changing the license to its own made-up closed license  —  A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Collier / NBC News: FCC’s connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of Sept. 30, 370 of North Carolina’s 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power  —  In some counties, fewer than 10% of all cellphone service sites are fully functioning.  —  Some of the victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it  —  A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jody Godoy / Reuters: A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC’s lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren’t immediately clear  —  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) won partial dismissal of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing it of maintaining illegal monopolies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale”  —  Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ H1 2024 revenue and has committed to buy $335M worth of its stock by April 2025, giving G42 a 5%+ stake  —  Cerebras makes a chip that is 56 times the size of a chip commonly used for artificial intelligence, with the potential to crunch data … Lees verder op Tech Meme