Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: GOP Representative Don Bacon says the FBI told him on August 14 that Chinese spies hacked into his email accounts when other Microsoft accounts were breached  —  Rep. Don Bacon said he was told of the hacking Monday; he pledged to ‘work overtime’ to win passage of an aid package for Taiwan Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: OpenAI says it has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using it for content moderation  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been using its most advanced large language model to enforce the company’s content policies, marking a major milestone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google’s Search Generative Experience adds an experimental browsing feature that summarizes page content, first in the Google mobile app for Search Labs users  —  Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube updates YouTube Music on iOS and Android with Samples, a music discovery feed featuring vertically cropped, 30-second clips uploaded directly by artists  —  While there have been modernizations, YouTube’s music streaming service has remained functionally and visually the same since its launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: the average price of major ad-free streaming services is up nearly 25% in about a year, as companies try to push users toward ad-supported tiers  —  Price push by Disney, others is part of effort to trim losses, steer users toward more-lucrative ad-supported plans  —  Call it streamflation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: in July, linear TV made up less than 50% of all US TV usage, a first in over two years of tracking, and streaming hit a record 38.7% high of TV usage  —  Nielsen’s monthly platform rankings show broadcast and cable making up less than half of all TV use. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: A look at Binance’s early and rapid growth, aided by the haze of regulatory uncertainty, and whether the company has blown its chance to rule crypto post-FTX  —  The exchange that looked best placed to benefit from last year’s collapse of FTX has instead found itself beset by regulatory setbacks Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: YouTube starts mass removing videos promoting “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective” or discouraging “seeking professional medical treatment”  —  YouTube will remove content that promotes “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective” or which … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Xbox debuts a strike-based enforcement program, aiming to improve “player transparency” and simplify rules; eight strikes over six months gets a one-year ban  —  Today, a new strike-based enforcement program is coming to Xbox.  The system is meant to clear up confusion regarding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Setapp, known for its Mac and iOS app subscription service, plans to open an alternative iOS and iPadOS app store in 2024 in the EU, taking advantage of the DMA  —  Setapp is planning to launch its own alternative App Store in the EU in 2024, taking advantage of law changes … Lees verder op Tech Meme