Tech Meme

Associated Press: Research: ChatGPT consumes up to an estimated 500ml of water for every five to 50 prompts; Microsoft reported its water use spiked 34% YoY in 2022, Google 20%  —  The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.  But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people’s faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes  —  Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: Dennis Austin, the principal developer of PowerPoint who led development of the presentation software until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 aged 76  —  The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector.  It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: US chipmakers and tech firms, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a business meeting in Vietnam as Biden visits to boost ties  —  Top U.S. semiconductors and digital companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Google are expected to attend a business meeting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia’s Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead  —  The American CEO of Arm, a British company owned by a Japanese tech conglomerate, must juggle the needs of chip-making customers who are battling each other Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox plans to launch its gaming app on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in October and on Meta Quest later in September, but has “no imminent plans” for Switch  —  Roblox will finally be available on PlayStation soon.  At its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) on Friday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Some Wyze security camera owners report that they were briefly able to see feeds from cameras they didn’t own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue”  —  Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren’t theirs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Google says North Korea-backed hackers are again targeting security researchers via a zero-day exploit; this still unfixed flaw is in a popular software package  —  Google researchers say currently unfixed vulnerability affects a popular software package.  —  North Korea-backed hackers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies’ moderation of COVID-19 posts  —  The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Walter Isaacson / CNBC: How Tesla’s Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips  —  The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson’s biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12. Lees verder op Tech Meme