Tech Meme

Joe Brock / Reuters: A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables  —  SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer mods for removing spam bots on r/gaming and other big subreddits, ceases operations over Reddit’s “antagonistic actions”  —  Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.  —  The Reddit community is still reckoning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Turner Novak / The Split: Meta’s Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn’t matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more  —  The Empire strikes back.  Can Meta’s new app live up to the early hype?  —  Hi everyone 👋 Turner back again with The Split. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer mods for removing rogue bots on r/gaming and other big subreddits, ceases operations over Reddit’s “antagonistic actions”  —  Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.  —  The Reddit community is still reckoning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group is proposing a buyback of up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO  —  Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to retain talent and offer an exit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI’s ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon’s arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development  —  – Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse  — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: With the launch of Threads, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform’s rollout, amid chaos at Musk’s Twitter  —  The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult  —  Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city  —  A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Khari Johnson / Wired: A look at assistive apps like Be My Eyes and Ask Envision, which integrate GPT-4 to give visually impaired users more visual details about the world around them  —  Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI’s GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Threads doesn’t have ads, but Meta representatives are talking with ad agencies and brands, some of which, like Netflix and Wendy’s, already have many followers  —  Meta promises more features that will make Threads even closer to Twitter as the rivalry heats up Lees verder op Tech Meme