Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tells Congress that “after Project Texas is done” China-based ByteDance employees will no longer be able to access US TikTok data  —  – TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told U.S. lawmakers that China-based employees at its parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data from the app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: China “firmly opposes” a forced sale of TikTok, warning such a move would involve “technology export” and would “seriously damage” investor confidence in the US  —  Intervention by commerce ministry comes ahead of social media app chief’s appearance at US Congress Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Block drops 10%+ after Hindenburg Research discloses a short position and alleges the company overstated user numbers and understated customer acquisition costs  —  Hindenburg Research said on Thursday it held short positions in Block Inc (SQ.N), alleging that the Jack Dorsey-led payments firm overstated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theatres, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness  —  Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Yegge / Sourcegraph Blog: Why LLMs aren’t a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow  —  Heya.  Sorry for not writing for so long.  I’ll make up for it with 3000 pages here.  —  I’m just hopping right now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins  —  OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases.  —  OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, including two of its own, a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin  —  We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT.  Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, starting with a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin  —  We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT.  Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked on Thursday and posted videos for crypto scams to its 15.3M subscribers, the latest crypto scam breach on YouTube  —  Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop. Lees verder op Tech Meme