Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Google’s Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets  —  Google’s security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023  —  Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand  —  Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by.  There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times  —  MindGeek acquired by Ethical Capital Partners for undisclosed sum  —  MindGeek, one of the world’s largest and most controversial porn companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, initially for iOS users, with plans to expand  —  Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by.  There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten that lives beside the retweet, quote retweet, and like numbers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Microsoft details Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Business Chat, which can summarize meetings, recent customer interactions, calendar entries, and more, like Bing’s AI  —  One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months  —  Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a security review that began in November 2022, following the EU and the US  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Pornhub owner MindGeek is acquired by PE firm Ethical Capital Partners; MindGeek had $460M in 2018 revenue, and sources say it had ~50% profit margins at times  —  MindGeek acquired by Ethical Capital Partners for undisclosed sum  —  MindGeek, one of the world’s largest … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI’s tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong”  —  – Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel. Lees verder op Tech Meme