Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it’s no longer under active development  —  Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80%  —  Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks  —  – Instacart’s long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn’t anticipating. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% in 2023, sparking an online spat between staffers of Snowflake and rival Databricks  —  – Instacart’s long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn’t anticipating. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its Flipkart stake to ~80%, and resolve PhonePe liabilities  —  Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn’t consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”  —  A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models is important for safety, challenges of fixing them, and more  —  Forbes spoke to the leaders of AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta, who are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in AI systems so they can be fixed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will soon be able to control each other’s appliances and TVs, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021  —  The smart home is all about interoperability these days.  First came Matter, making Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung play nice … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans  —  A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle / New York Times: Paris becomes the first European capital to outlaw rented electric scooters, after an April 2023 vote; e-scooter rental companies are shifting to electric bikes  —  But the city is adding bike lanes, and scooter companies are shifting their focus to electric bikes. Lees verder op Tech Meme