Tech Meme

Lane Brown / Vulture: How Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics”  —  In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Walter Isaacson / TIME: An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more  —  At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Caplight: secondary market shares of USDC stablecoin developer Circle were trading at a ~$4.8B valuation in August 2023; Circle was valued at $8B in April 2022  —  On a fateful evening in March, Jeremy Allaire sat in a Dubai hotel room as a catastrophe unfolded. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Inceptive, whose AI-based software designs unique mRNA-based molecules that are licensed out to pharmaceutical companies, raised $100M from Nvidia and a16z  —  Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: China plans to expand its ban on the use of iPhones in sensitive departments to include government-backed agencies and state-owned companies  —  – Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies  — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: UNESCO report: overreliance on online learning during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered discussion on equitable, lower-tech options  —  Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Vitalik Buterin co-authors paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing their full transaction history  —  – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on Sept. 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products  —  – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex York / Forbes: London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC  —  London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme