Tech Meme

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk’s colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia’s Ukraine war, and more  —  How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Maine’s attorney general says Tesla’s May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”  —  – Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says  — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, after raising a $50M Series A in September 2021, and migrate the metadata of minted NFTs to the IPFS  —  – NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: PeckShield: after using BNB as collateral, a wallet tied to Binance Coin’s almost $600M October 2022 hack had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol  —  Cryptocurrencies’ sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinning up to three profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding at ~20M DAUs  —  BeReal is trying to be real.  And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more  —  “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO.  The story of a transformative moment that’s been a decade in the making. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm’s upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors’ sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile; private is default for under 16  —  Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: The US announces a ~$667M fourth round of rural broadband infrastructure grants and loans for 37 new projects after setting aside $771.4M in April and June 2023  —  The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

AI Snake Oil: A recent paper on ChatGPT’s political biases seems to have many flaws, including testing an older model and prompt types, but the broader topic merits research  —  A new paper making this claim has many flaws.  But the question merits research.  —  Previous research has shown … Lees verder op Tech Meme