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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

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

Emily Mason / Forbes: Sources: Apple’s high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in nearly $400M in deposits on launch day and ~$990M over its first four days  —  Apple’s AAPL freshly launched high yield savings account brought in as much as $990 million in deposits over its first four days … 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

Cade Metz / New York Times: An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google after over a decade to speak about AI’s risks, on part of him regretting his life’s work and more  —  For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT.  Now he worries it will cause serious harm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic Bank, which was a tad bigger than SVB and had $100B+ in outflows  —  Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country’s second-largest bank failure  —  JPMorgan Chase is to acquire … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Despite scary warnings by the FBI, the FCC, and others about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases of an attack in the wild  —  Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent.  So why are we so afraid? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: Automattic says its WordPress plugin JetPack is losing the ability to automatically share blog posts to Twitter, citing the new Twitter 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

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel earnings were better than Wall Street expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth lags  —  Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past Lees verder op Tech Meme

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, shared 150K documents with the US SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks  —  The former high-ranking executive of Trump’s media company says he’s shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators. Lees verder op Tech Meme