Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its new hub for FAST channels, after it saw monthly hours streamed of FAST content surging 300%+ in the past six months  —  Amazon is doubling down on free, ad-supported content with today’s introduction of Fire TV Channels, its new, free and ad-supported … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Memo: Samsung is banning employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company-owned devices due to security concerns  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing due to security concerns … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: A US federal judge declared a mistrial in Masimo’s suit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secrets claims after jurors were unable to reach a consensus  —  Apple Inc. and Masimo Corp. failed to persuade a jury to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial where the medical-devices company claimed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Sotheby’s launches a curated, peer-to-peer secondary NFT marketplace on its Metaverse platform, fully on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks  —  Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances  —  Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform.  On Monday, the decentralized network announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: A glitch on Twitter’s website has been randomly logging out users for at least a couple hours and has prevented some from logging back in  —  Twitter is not dead yet, it’s just randomly logging out a number of its users.  After reporting earlier today that Twitter was experiencing a bug … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at last year’s WWDC, for the first time, pushing a more lightweight fix to iOS and macOS users  —  Rapid Security Response updates haven’t been released to the public until today.  —  When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams to let SMBs in the US and Canada collect payments during a meeting  —  Microsoft is launching a payments system inside Microsoft Teams that lets small businesses earn money from appointments, classes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Becky Ferreira / VICE: Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from human subjects, a breakthrough in reading people’s thoughts  —  An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack’s ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter’s dramatic change to its API terms and pricing  —  Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies.  —  When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website … Lees verder op Tech Meme