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Parity Technologies, the developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff, or 30% of its employees (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) 23-10-2023

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Parity Technologies, the developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff, or 30% of its employees  —  – Parity Technologies will cut a total of about 100 employees  — Blockchain infrastructure firm will focus on technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option (Karissa Bell/Engadget) 23-10-2023

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users’ Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option  —  The company said it’s “listening to feedback” about the feature.  —  Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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 (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) 23-10-2023

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

Parity Technologies, developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff or 30% of its employees (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) 23-10-2023

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Parity Technologies, developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff or 30% of its employees  —  – Parity Technologies will cut a total of about 100 employees  — Blockchain infrastructure firm will focus on technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta says it is “listening to feedback” after some users found that it is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without an opt-out (Karissa Bell/Engadget) 23-10-2023

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta says it is “listening to feedback” after some users found that it is cross-posting Threads posts to users’ Facebook feeds without an opt-out  —  The company said it’s “listening to feedback” about the feature.  —  Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Nightshade and Glaze, tools made by researchers at UChicago that help artists “poison” their work to confuse or break AI models that later train on it (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) 23-10-2023

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, tools made by researchers at UChicago that help artists “poison” their work to confuse or break AI models that later train on it  —  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

SK Hynix's stock has surged 67% in 2023 due to its Nvidia deal, while rival Samsung's stock is up 24%, on track to underperform SK Hynix by the most in a decade (Bloomberg) 23-10-2023

Bloomberg: SK Hynix’s stock has surged 67% in 2023 due to its Nvidia deal, while rival Samsung’s stock is up 24%, on track to underperform SK Hynix by the most in a decade  —  – SK Hynix has jumped 67% this year on HBM chip; Samsung up 24%  — Samsung needs big client like Nvidia, good yields to catch up Lees verder op Tech Meme

TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) 23-10-2023

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators  —  TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 15 minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) 23-10-2023

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at YouTube’s negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians’ voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music  —  Negotiations between the video site and record labels could be a key moment in the spread of AI technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025 (Reuters) 23-10-2023

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips.  Now it is coming after Intel’s longtime stronghold of personal computers. Lees verder op Tech Meme