Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: YouTube adds a news page to its mobile apps that suggests content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote creating Shorts news content  —  YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: At a conference, Sam Altman and other tech leaders say AI will likely bring seismic workforce changes, eliminating professions, a hard sell to the most affected  —  At WSJ Tech Live, Sam Altman said coming workforce changes will play out unevenly  —  LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: SBF’s defense finally undermines a witness’ credibility, noting Nishad Singh borrowed $3.7M from FTX after Singh says he knew about its misuse of customer funds  —  Nishad Singh looks less reliable.  Is it enough? … Of Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged co-conspirators, Nishad Singh gave the most emotionally compelling testimony. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem  —  Join the newsletter to get the latest updates.  —  Success  —  Great!  Check your inbox and click the link.  —  Error Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao meets Tim Cook and says China welcomes Apple for “win-win development” and to share the “dividends of the Chinese market”  —  – New iPhone off to a weak start in China, initial data show  — China banned use of iPhone in some government, state firms Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: PitchBook: global AI startup funding rose 27% YoY to $17.9B in Q3 2023, one of the VC world’s lone bright spots as overall startup funding fell 31% YoY to $73B  —  Multibillion-dollar investments in artificial intelligence startups have become almost commonplace in Silicon Valley … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Franklin / Financial Times: Plaid hires former Expedia Chief Financial Officer Eric Hart as its first CFO, a milestone in its plans for a US IPO after a failed $5.3B sale to Visa in 2021  —  Start-up appoints former Expedia CFO two years after failed sale to Visa  —  US financial technology start-up Plaid has hired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Chrome’s address bar with improved autocomplete, suggestions for misspelled URL names, search within bookmark folders, and more  —  Google is rolling out a series of updates to the address bar (or Omnibox) in Chrome that improves the accuracy of autocomplete across the desktop and mobile browser. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google says that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched zero-day in WinRAR, discovered by Group-IB in August 2023  —  Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google says government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched zero-day in WinRAR, first discovered in August 2023  —  Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting … Lees verder op Tech Meme