Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Automattic plans to acquire Texts, a $15 per month messaging app that works with WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessage, and more, for $50M  —  Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: Sources: prominent RISC-V startup SiFive, which raised $365M+, lays off 100 to 300+ employees, mostly in its engineering team, and guts its product portfolio  —  A quick one for you.  I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to €3.4B, MAUs up 26% to 574M, Premium users up 16% YoY to 226M, and a €32M profit, beating estimates of a €44.6M loss  —  Spotify Technology SA, the music-streaming giant, reported third-quarter sales that exceeded analysts’ projections … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Google disables live traffic conditions in Israel and the Gaza Strip for its Maps and Waze apps, a source says at the request of the Israel Defense Forces  —  – Israeli army asked tech giant to limit real-time information  — Google took similar action in Ukraine during war with Russia Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION: Tyler Cowen announces econgoat.ai, the first “generative book” that lets readers query the material and create more content, derived from a 100K-word manuscript  —  I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: AI experts share a paper ahead of the UK’s AI summit in Bletchley Park warning of worrying capabilities in current AI systems and seeking urgent governance  —  Authors and academics also warn development of advanced systems ‘utterly reckless’ without safety checks Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers’ tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data  —  The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: 1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance for managing employee-facing apps but “found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems”  —  1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers’ tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data  —  The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: A look at POSSE, a decade-old idea that a user should Publish (on your) Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere, and the challenges of building a system based on that  —  The platform era is ending.  Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. Lees verder op Tech Meme