Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset’s features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs’ BAYC trademarks  —  Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: AI’s mythology as tech for creating independent, intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries  —  There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: US PIRG Education Fund: Chromebooks are less sustainable and more costly for schools than other devices due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability  —  Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft’s new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention  —  Pumpkin Sandstorm.  Spandex Tempest.  Charming Kitten.  Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet  —  Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers confidentially disclose flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability  —  GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available and can be enabled at scale, on all repositories belonging to an organization. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Boston-based cloud infrastructure startup Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies  —  Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge … Lees verder op Tech Meme