Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal says it has 20M+ DAUs and is testing allowing more than one post a day; Apptopia said BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022 — BeReal, Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it’s still going strong. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sources: Twitter committed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd’s murder; now it’s trying to sell those stakes and back out — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — With Twitter expected to default on millions still due, investors at VC firms … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud — Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews in the US App Store as users pan My AI, its GPT-powered chatbot feature that launched to all users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat’s “My AI” feature are in — and they’re not good. Launched last week to global users after initially … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft’s GPT-4-based Security Copilot — Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, not AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores was illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme