Tech Meme

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger partners with PayPal to let US users buy BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC in its Ledger Live app through their PayPal accounts  —  Users of Ledger Live, the company’s feature that lets you buy crypto with fiat currency, will now be able to connect their PayPal account to the app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Cranz / The Verge: YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips pauses production amid accusations of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, and says it’ll hire an outside investigator  —  Linus Sebastian’s Linus Media Group YouTube empire is currently in crisis, with accusations of theft, lapses in ethics, and most recently, allegations of sexual harassment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Researchers find ChatGPT has a “significant and systematic political bias” toward the Democrats in the US, Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the UK  —  Chatbots are ingrained with political biases picked up from their training data — which in most cases is unfiltered text from the web Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Garisto / Nature: A look at studies saying LK-99 is not a superconductor and that impurities in the material were responsible for its superconducting-like behaviors  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  Researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Shiba Inu’s Ethereum layer-2 network Shibarium, which hopes to lure users with low fees to an ecosystem focused on financial services and gaming, goes live  —  The much-awaited Shibarium network saw over 21 million wallets created during its testnet and is expected to position Shiba Inu as a serious DeFi contender. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires New York-based AI design studio Global Illumination, marking the company’s first public acquisition; the terms of the deal weren’t disclosed  —  OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York-based startup leveraging AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Candice Ortiz / Mediaite: Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says all Glenn Beck Program episodes were removed from Apple Podcasts, and then restored, “with no explanation”  —  Commentator Glenn Beck’s entire show was removed from Apple’s podcast network on Wednesday, allegedly without warning or explanation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: NYC-based Highlight, which helps brands automate, track, and scale physical product testing, raised an $18M Series A led by Acre Venture Partners and HearstLab  —  Highlight, an in-home product testing company, raised $18 million in Series A funding to continue developing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $15.2B, vs. $15.05B est., net income up 41% YoY to $4B, and forecasts FY 2024 revenue of $57B to $58.2B, vs. $58.4B est.  —  Cisco Systems Inc. reported strong quarterly results, but a mixed full-year forecast for fiscal 2024 turned shares south in after-hours trading Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNN: Memo: the White House told US agencies to shore up their cybersecurity after many “failed to fully comply” with practices prescribed by a 2021 executive order  —  The White House ordered federal agencies to shore up their cybersecurity after agencies have lagged in implementing … Lees verder op Tech Meme