Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like vertical “discovery feed” to select users, first with horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips — Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content. Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Information: Sources: Tiger Global nears a deal to sell a ~2.1% stake in AI startup Cohere for ~$63M at a $3B valuation, up 40% from June 2023; Tiger will retain a ~5% stake — Tiger Global Management is nearing a deal to sell part of its stake in OpenAI rival Cohere at a roughly $3 billion valuation … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta is rolling out a Threads web app over the next few days that will let users post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. You’ll be able to post, interact with other posts … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs — Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Nvidia and VMware extend partnership to help companies iterate on open models like Llama 2 for their AI apps, using Nvidia’s NeMo framework on VMware’s cloud — VMware and Nvidia today extended their decade-long strategic collaboration to announce a new fully-integrated solution focused on generative AI training and deployment. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at the dire state of Americans’ privacy, worsened by credit bureaus’ data policies; Telegram bots sell troves of personal info on targets for ~$15 in BTC — Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dave James / PC Gamer: Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered Ray Reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image and improve clarity, available on all RTX GPUs — Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Ivanti warns of a Sentry API authentication bypass flaw being exploited in the wild, after hackers used another Ivanti zero-day to breach Norway’s government — US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo plans to close its $2.3B acquisition of ID verification software maker ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal — – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap — Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service’s origin as Wikipedia’s sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more — Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney … Lees verder op Tech Meme