Tech Meme

David Shepardson / Reuters: The US House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to advance a bill that would enable President Biden to ban TikTok and other apps considered security risks  —  The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $8.38B vs. $7.99B est., Q1 revenue guidance above est., and a share buyback program increase to $20B; CRM jumps 13%+  —  Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates as pandemic-induced migration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s free secret scanning alerts service, which notifies users of potential repository leaks, hits general availability, after a December 2022 beta release  —  GitHub has announced that its secret scanning alerts service is now generally available to all public repositories and can be enabled … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm decided against a London listing for now to focus on a sole NYC listing later in 2023; in 2022, SoftBank was aiming for a $60B+ valuation for Arm  —  Arm Ltd. has decided against selling shares on the London Stock Exchange for now, dealing a blow to UK politicians who were lobbying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won’t use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in  —  As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters  —  To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm decided against a London listing for now to focus on a sole New York listing later this year; SoftBank aimed for a $60B+ valuation for Arm in 2022  —  Arm Ltd. has decided against selling shares on the London Stock Exchange for now, dealing a blow to UK politicians who were lobbying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate: Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023  —  Crypto exchange platform Robinhood’s wallet application launched on the iOS application store on Mar. 1, according to the announcement published on the Robinhood blog. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race  —  OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships.  Will it seek to own its shiny AI future? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: A look at Russia’s cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network in February 2022, leading some countries to debate how to improve satellite security for the long term  —  Andreas Wickberg loves snowmobiling to the house he built in the icy reaches of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle. Lees verder op Tech Meme