Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, vs. ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, and awaits Beijing’s approval to roll out its ChatGPT rival  —  – The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales  — It’s riding a bounce-back in advertising from Covid depths Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run calculations in Microsoft’s Cloud, first on Windows and then other platforms “later”  —  Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel.  A public preview of the feature is available today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation data set  —  In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM agrees to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented services, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum  —  IBM’s consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dave James / PC Gamer: Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered ray reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image for better clarity, available on RTX GPUs  —  Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays.  —  Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta plans to roll out a more capable web app for Threads in the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed  —  Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cerby, which manages access to “nonstandard” enterprise apps, like those without modern identity protocols, raised a $17M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures  —  Bel Lepe, a former Google software engineer, tells me that it always seemed risky to him that there were apps business users needed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Riding in three Waymo taxis in San Francisco finds two avoided traffic while another didn’t, the app works like Uber, and the first experience can be confusing  —  On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, beating ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, as China boosts its private sector; BIDU rises 4%+  —  – The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales  — It’s riding a recovery in advertising from Covid depths Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Ivanti warns of a critical Sentry API authentication bypass flaw that is being exploited in the wild, after another zero-day compromised Norway’s government  —  US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Lees verder op Tech Meme