Tech Meme

Alex Cranz / The Verge: Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it’s not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business  —  Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: San Jose-based Vintra markets its “co-appearance” AI, which seeks to detect when people caught on video are likely associates, to the IRS and police departments  —  A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: The US adds China’s Inspur, the world’s third largest server maker that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to its Entity List, limiting its US tech access  —  The Biden administration’s blacklisting of China’s Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: BidenCash, a dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2.1M+ cards sharing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more  —  A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with OpenAI’s Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more  —  Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.  —  When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: San Jose-based Vintra, whose clients include the IRS and police departments, says its “co-appearance” AI can map associations between people caught on video  —  A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman quits OpenAI’s nonprofit board, seeking to invest in companies using OpenAI’s tech, which he says may cause a conflict of interest  —  – LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is leaving the nonprofit board of OpenAI, he announced in a post on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Ring says new Ring Alarm users will have to pay for a Ring Protect subscription starting at $3.99 per month to use existing free features, starting on March 29  —  Yet another company will charge its customers more money for using existing features as the subscription-based smart home becomes the norm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a ~40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the platform  —  The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk’s buyout, people familiar with the matter said Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project’s seed funding  —  Billionaire tech founder Ryan Breslow is locked in a legal battle over the alleged theft of millions of dollars belonging to a nascent crypto project, Movement DAO. Lees verder op Tech Meme