Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Singapore-based Reebelo, a marketplace for pre-owned smartphones, tablets, and more, raised a $29M Series A extension, bringing its Series A total to ~$50M  —  The global circular economy, comprising the sale of secondhand and refurbished goods, was valued at about $339 billion in 2022 and is poised to more than double by 2026. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mandiant: An overview of 55 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2022, mostly in products from Apple, Microsoft, and Google; Chinese groups exploited more than others  —  THREAT INTELLIGENCEZERO DAY THREATSVULNERABILITIES  —  Executive Summary  — Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that we judge were exploited in 2022. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Study: GPT models and related technologies could seriously affect ~19% of workers in the US, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure  —  Researchers examine how OpenAI’s GPT technology could affect the workforce, and find ’the influence spans all wage levels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Maryland-based identity management startup Aembit launches its service on Monday and announces a $16.6M seed from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures  —  Aembit, a Maryland-based security startup that focuses on helping DevOps and security teams manage how federated workloads talk to each other … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Shepardson / Reuters: TikTok announces its video app has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M MAUs in August 2020; in September 2021, TikTok reported 1B+ MAUs globally  —  TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts Dragon Ambient eXperience Express, which uses GPT-4 to generate clinical note drafts after patient visits  —  – Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts DAX Express, which can generate drafts of clinical notes after patient visits and is partly built on GPT-4  —  – Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters  —  It’s only a matter of time until rights holders notice that new AI tools are playing a little loose with their intellectual property. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of fictional characters or famous people  —  It’s only a matter of time until rights holders notice that new AI tools are playing a little loose with their intellectual property. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: TrendForce: NAND flash memory revenue fell 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is set to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND’s per-bit costs may reach all-time lows  —  Softened demand for PCs and smartphones coupled with NAND memory bits oversupply has sent prices of 3D NAND memory into a dive in recent quarters. Lees verder op Tech Meme