Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. — Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon — Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project’s data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++ — Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hugh Son / CNBC: The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total — – U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls — WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jeff Kosseff / Wired: Unlike in Gonzalez v. Google, SCOTUS in the next year can’t just punt the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida — Forget Gonzalez v. Google. There’s another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they will … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia announces the Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024 — – Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Data management company Rubrik acquires Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M — Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking to bolt … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces AI Workbench, letting users create, test, and tweak LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before utilizing cloud resources — Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, a code generation LLM based on data from the open-source BigCode project, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++ — Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme