Tech Meme

Reuters: Bank records: from 2019 to 2020, Binance executive Guangying Chen operated five Silvergate accounts belonging to Binance’s purportedly independent US affiliate  —  A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI’s limits, how current machines are not conscious, his 2010 novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more  —  The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Filling: the SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing Binance of mishandling customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more  —  The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft attributes recent zero-day attacks on the MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; responders say the gang can take weeks to issue demands  —  Microsoft has linked the Clop ransomware gang to recent attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform to steal data from organizations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Stanford researchers: Twitter failed to stop 40+ known CSAM images from being posted in recent months; the issue seemed to be fixed in May after staff were told  —  Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google opens a beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Carbon Health launches a GPT-4-based tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says ~90% are accepted without edits  —  A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Tech layoffs, compounded by interest rate increases and inflation, lead to higher unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington  —  California, Oregon and Washington have some of the nation’s highest jobless rates  —  The West Coast tech downturn is sending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Hands-on with Google’s Search Generative Experience: answers are slow to load, the user interface is cluttered, simple queries yield error messages, and more  —  Why wait for an AI-generated summary when I can just scroll down the page? … The worst thing about Google’s new AI-powered search experience is how long you have to wait. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Bitcoin developers feud over whether to stamp out memecoins that have swarmed the network, led to an 11x spike in May 2023 processing fees, and created a logjam  —  The coders who maintain Bitcoin’s blockchain are clashing over whether to stamp out the meme tokens swarming the network. Lees verder op Tech Meme