Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook  —  – Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading service TradeBlock on May 31, 2023, citing the “crypto winter” and challenging US regulatory environment  —  Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hugh Son / CNBC: Trademark filing: JPMorgan Chase is developing IndexGPT, a ChatGPT-like service that uses AI for “analyzing and selecting securities tailored to customer needs”  —  – JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US SEC’s record $279M whistleblower award in May 2023 stemmed from Ericsson pleading guilty to breaching a $1.1B settlement in a 2019 bribery case  —  The largest-ever award in the SEC’s cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson’s bribery case Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues  —  A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center: A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% tried the tool themselves; 74% say ChatGPT is extremely, very, or somewhat useful  —  About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Akriti Sharma / Reuters: Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to conduct its first in-human clinical trial of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon  —  Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: France’s CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA says Meta offered to limit its use of other businesses’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace, which the regulator thinks address its competition concerns  —  UK’s competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta Platforms Inc had offered to limit the use … Lees verder op Tech Meme