Tech Meme

Bobby Allyn / NPR: TikTok sues Montana over its new law banning the app, citing the First Amendment, the state’s lack of authority on national security issues, and more  —  TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say we’ll likely need an international regulatory body for superintelligence  —  AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI’s leadership believes that the world needs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Meta unveils open-source AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively  —  They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now.  —  Meta has built AI models that can recognize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug  —  Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped  —  An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Biden nominates veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez as FCC Commissioner, and nominates Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new FCC terms  —  The White House also nominated Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new terms on the Commission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can’t identify most primates  —  Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: China’s Micron ban may boost Samsung’s and SK Hynix’s sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies’ exposure to Chinese and US pressure  —  Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron’s void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme