Tech Meme

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, allowing users to collaborate in shared workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS  —  You can now try out Microsoft’s new collaboration tool Loop.  —  What you need to know  — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool  —  “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A look at ByteDance’s and TikTok’s lobbying before Shou Zi Chew’s hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta’s well-worn tactics  —  The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: GitHub announces Copilot X, a new Copilot version with chat and voice features using OpenAI’s GPT-4 to help with certain coding tasks, available via a waitlist  —  Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI’s language-generation tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theo Wayt / The Information: Job listings site Indeed is laying off about 2,200 people, or 15% of its headcount; Indeed was acquired in 2012 by Japan’s Recruit, which also owns Glassdoor  —  Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it’s laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon introduces new Fire TVs and the cheaper TV lineup 2-Series, says 200M+ Fire TV devices have been sold, and expands Luna to the UK, Germany, and Canada  —  Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices.  That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with a $30M seed from the Mozilla Foundation to create a “trustworthy”, independent open-source AI stack  —  On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s weird $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which is economically irrational but attracts attention  —  It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it from its creditors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer tool  —  Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations.  Now the list of known victims is growing  —  The number of victims affected … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Coco Liu / Bloomberg: Microsoft announces a toolkit for developers to measure Xbox games’ energy consumption “to the nearest millisecond”, helping the company establish a baseline  —  How much energy does it take to play Xbox?  Microsoft Corp. is helping developers find out. Lees verder op Tech Meme