Tech Meme

Laura Kayali / Politico: How France built a surveillance apparatus over two centuries that digital rights groups and UN experts are critiquing, ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics  —  The 2024 Summer Olympics will spotlight a surveillance state which Paris has spent 200 years building.  —  9 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kai Ye / Wired: A profile of Moxie Marlinspike and Signal, from copying WhatsApp’s UX to pioneering E2EE, and its aim to reach “everyone on the planet” while upholding privacy  —  The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk’s weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com  —  Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo.  This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens  —  Start-up co-founded by OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in US  —  Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: A look at the Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 after opposition from anti-CBDC legislators  —  Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we’ve learned the basics of how one might work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Eisen / Wall Street Journal: Small-time US entrepreneurs are amassing vehicles to rent out through services such as Turo and Getaround or their own websites to take on Hertz and Avis Budget  —  Entrepreneurs rent out fleets of cars through services including Turo and Getaround or build their own websites Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: A look at the Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators  —  Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we’ve learned the basics of how one might work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Smith / Semafor: Sources: IAC, News Corp, the NYT, and other publishers are forming a coalition to push for AI laws and lead a lawsuit against AI firms who trained on their data  —  Barry Diller fired publishers’ opening shot at artificial intelligence platforms in a Semafor interview this April … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Because developers can bring iPad apps to Vision Pro, whose owners will likely pay more for apps, its App Store may fare better than tvOS and watchOS App Stores  —  Third-party apps will be crucial to the success of the Vision Pro, but the pricey and niche nature of the device means that developers may not quickly flock to it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of Munich-based Helsing, whose battlefield AI distills data from weapons systems and sensors like infrared and sonar into a visualization in real time  —  Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it’ll only ever sell to democracies.  —  On the screen in front of me is a mountain range. Lees verder op Tech Meme