Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based Halcyon, which uses AI to protect against ransomware events, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures and Corner Ventures  —  Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Internal Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to backfill vacated positions but slow hiring to a net employee growth of 1% to 2% year over year going forward  —  Facebook-parent CEO says employee growth of 1%-2% a year will be standard in future  —  Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dara Kerr / NPR: Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Lyft plans to lay off 1,200+, or 30%+ of its 4,000+ staff, days after its new CEO took over, aiming to cut its costs by 50%; Lyft cut ~700 jobs in 2022  —  Latest cuts could impact 30% or more of company’s over 4,000 employees  —  Lyft Inc. plans to cut 1,200 or more jobs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Linux Foundation launches the TLA+ Foundation to promote and maintain the TLA+ programming language, with AWS, Oracle, and Microsoft among inaugural members  —  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / The Information: Weaviate, which offers open-source vector databases for startups building generative AI tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $200M valuation  —  Weaviate, an infrastructure startup whose technology is essential for companies trying to build generative AI tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Champion / VICE: A fake Twitter account with a Blue checkmark for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is wrongly claiming RSF leader Hemedti died; RSF’s real account lost its checkmark  —  The fake account with a blue tick wrongly claimed that Hemedti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, had died. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google gives Bard the ability to generate, debug, and explain code in 20+ languages, including C++, JavaScript, and Python, and export code to Google’s Colab  —  Google’s Bard chatbot now has the capability to help you with programming tasks.  The tech giant said that coding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: The White House meets with corporate, government, and academic experts to begin developing strategies for 6G, as the US seeks to build an early lead over China  —  Biden administration aims to reassert U.S. leadership in telecom, an area where China has made gains Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carina Chocano / New Yorker: A profile of Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn, who co-created CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, as he predicts AI will eventually make computers better teachers than humans  —  The company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans. Lees verder op Tech Meme