Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years  —  International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives  —  People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists  —  A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997  —  In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU  —  OnePlus’ first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point.  It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: A US federal judge declares a mistrial in Masimo’s lawsuit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secret claims, after jurors failed to reach a consensus  —  Apple Inc. and Masimo Corp. failed to persuade a jury to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial where the medical-devices company claimed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Sotheby’s launches a curated, P2P secondary NFT marketplace, on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks, and letting users pay in native tokens ETH or MATIC  —  Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mastodon rolls out a new onboarding experience that defaults to the mastodon.social server, instead of requiring new users to pick from thousands of instances  —  Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform.  On Monday, the decentralized network announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: A glitch on Twitter’s desktop website has been randomly logging out some users and preventing some from logging back in, adding to the service’s list of issues  —  Twitter is not dead yet, it’s just randomly logging out a number of its users.  After reporting earlier today that Twitter … Lees verder op Tech Meme