Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing’s wild outbursts — Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses. Lees verder op Tech Meme
CyberScoop: The Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more — The strategy represents a shift in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering toward a more strictly regulated approach. Lees verder op Tech Meme
David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: After a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone — The FUD is coming from inside the building, says David Z. Morris, CoinDesk’s chief insights columnist. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely — Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022 — The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds — Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Lees verder op Tech Meme
Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine: A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do — Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Staff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay’s slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split — Integration was difficult but the deal itself had always been misguided — Since it was founded by former UK policeman Nick Ogden … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022 — The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M — Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing … Lees verder op Tech Meme