Tech Meme

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: A stress test by EU officials finds that TikTok isn’t fully compliant with the EU’s Digital Services Act ahead of the August 25, 2023 compliance deadline  —  – Big internet platforms must abide by list of moderation rules  —  TikTok isn’t yet fully compliant with upcoming European Union … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Logitech acquires Helsinki-based Loupedeck, which makes editing consoles and software for streamers and creative professionals, for an undisclosed sum  —  Logitech has acquired Loupedeck — the company behind the self-titled editing console beloved by streamers and creative professionals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Threads gets big update with Follows tab, translations, and more  —  It’s been two weeks since Meta launched Threads, its new microblogging social network.  And while version 1.0 was a pretty solid release, it lacked a lot of features that users had been asking for. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: ~700K TikTok accounts in Turkey were hacked before its May 2023 election via a flaw TikTok knew of in 2022; TikTok noticed “unusual activity” in April  —  A U.K. security agency warned TikTok about the exploited vulnerability more than a year earlier, but the company chose not to fix it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn’t widely shipped GPT-4’s “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts  —  An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time  —  Two photographers who filed a copyright lawsuit against Instagram after their images posted to the platform appeared on BuzzFeed News … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal  —  TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix  —  The exploited code-execution flaws are the kind coveted by ransomware and nation-state hackers.  —  Organizations big and small … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted materials in generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it … Lees verder op Tech Meme