Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon  —  It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China  —  Hackers linked to the Chinese government … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23  —  The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: The Allen Institute for AI debuts Multimodal Open Language Model in 1B- to 72B-parameter sizes, the most capable open-source AI model with visual abilities yet  —  A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry’s unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013  —  Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry’s unstoppable pair, until they fought each other.  An excerpt from the new book Play Nice. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021  —  In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google’s $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal  —  Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google’s pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information  —  It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China  —  Hackers linked to the Chinese government … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps  —  Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on products like Windows  —  Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games  —  Sony has just revealed seven additional games that’ll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed. Lees verder op Tech Meme